Jaikumar Vijayan

Business customers of Google’s cloud platform now have another option for protecting data on disks, images and backup resources in the cloud.  The company June 22 announced beta availability of a customer-managed encryption keys (CMEKs) feature that is aimed at giving enterprises more control over the default encryption that Google uses to protect data at […]

Google has updated its Hire recruiting app with new features that the company says makes it easier for corporate human resources and recruiting staffs to find and hire new employees.  Like many Google products and services these days the updates to Hire incorporate artificial intelligence capabilities. The new features are designed to speed up the […]

Partner Interconnect, a high-bandwidth, private network connectivity option for business customers of Google’s cloud platform, is now generally available.  Starting this week, organizations can use the option to connect their data centers and on-premise resources to Google’s cloud infrastructure from a Google partner location or network.  With general availability, beta customers of Partner Interconnect will […]

Business customers of Google’s G Suite collection of cloud-hosted applications now have a new way of quickly building custom apps to speed up workflows, improve processes and to handle tasks that are not typically addressed by large enterprise applications.  The company on June 14 announced general availability of App Maker, a low-code application development tool […]

Google’s Analytics 360 data analytics platform has been integrated with Saleforce’s Marketing Cloud.  The integration will give organizations a way to get better insights about their customers to boost the effectiveness of marketing efforts, Salesforce announced June 13.  Enterprises for example will now be to view customer data gathered from multiple sales channels in both […]

Google’s cloud customers now have a new option for using GPUs to run compute-intensive applications without having to pay full price for the extra performance. Starting this week, Google is making its preemptible pricing model generally available for GPUs attached to preemptible virtual machines (VMs) on Google’s cloud.  The preemptible option allows companies to get […]

Google has launched a new “sole-tenant” node option for enterprises that want wholly dedicated physical servers to run their cloud workloads.  The option is targeted at organizations with strict regulatory compliance requirements and those that want better control over isolating cloud workloads that utilize computing resources, according to Google.  Sole-tenant nodes enable physical separation of […]

Google this week announced several updates to Cloud Platform partnership it entered into with SAP more than a year ago.  The updates—like the partnership itself—are designed to help enterprises more easily run SAP workloads on Google’s cloud platform. They include a new managed service for SAP HANA, new Google virtual machine instances certified for SAP […]

Google has announced several new integrations in Hangouts Meet and Calendar that the company says will make it easier for enterprise teams to collaborate with each other using multi-vendor apps and services.  Key updates include new interoperability between Hangouts Meet and video conferencing systems from other vendors; new smart features in Calendar that allow better […]

Google has introduced a couple of new measures aimed at preventing rogue third-party software from spreading among users of Gmail, Drive and other Google cloud applications.  Effective immediately, any third-party application that requires Open Authorization (OAuth) to access user data in Google apps will be subject to a daily total new user cap. The cap […]