Jaikumar Vijayan

The encryption capability available with Google’s Pixel 2 smartphones is highly resistant to attacks on the hardware, software, operating system and firmware, the company said this week.  Central to that security is “insider attack resistance” that ensures even highly-privileged users with administrative access to a Pixel 2 device cannot overcome the encryption on it without […]

Google has begun migrating business users of its G Suite collection of cloud-hosted productivity apps from the older version of the company’s Hangouts video conferencing app to the more enterprise oriented Hangouts Meet.  Starting May 29, organizations that are currently following Google’s recommended upgrade schedule for G Suite will be automatically upgraded to Hangouts Meet.  […]

Starting this week, business customers of Google’s cloud services will be able to connect their datacenters to Google’s Cloud Platform via AT&T’s Netbond for Cloud high-bandwidth connectivity service.  As part of a new alliance announced May 29, businesses will also be able to access Google’s entire range of G Suite cloud productivity apps—including Gmail, Drive […]

Google is giving organizations a new way to keep an eye on how much they are spending on some of the company’s cloud computing services.  Google has added a new programmatic budget notification feature to its cloud billing service that notifies app administrators and business line managers when particular cloud service costs are approaching budget […]

Android P, the next version of Google’s mobile operating system will have several features designed specifically to bolster its usability in enterprise environments.  Among them are several enhancements aimed at improving the operating system’s security and its performance on corporate devices and on self-owned Android devices used in the workplace.  “Many of the new features […]

Google’s Kubernetes Engine 1.10 platform for deploying production-ready containerized applications is now generally available.  The company on May 21 announced availability of the technology along with plans to soon introduce several related high-availability, management and automation features designed to help organizations better manage enterprise workloads on Kubernetes Engine environments.  “Here on the Kubernetes Engine team, […]

Google has released Advanced Analysis, a new tool that the company says will offer organizations using its Google Analytics 360 service more ways to explore and analyze website usage and performance data. The tool is currently available in beta and incorporates three new techniques for finding data that can help website owners improve their understanding […]

Enterprises now have a new option for running memory-intensive applications on Google’s cloud platform.  The company this week announced beta availability of n1-ultramem, a new family of memory-optimized virtual machine (VM) instances that Google says is well suited for applications such as data analytics, enterprise resource planning and genomics.  The new machine types offer more […]

With less than two weeks for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to go into effect, Google on Friday listed the multiple measures the company has taken to ensure its cloud services comply with data privacy mandate.  Among them are updates to the company’s data processing terms and conditions, new data portability features […]

A fully managed in-memory data store service for the Redis high-availability cloud data service that Google first announced in April is now accessible in beta for any organization that wants to try it out.  Google’s new Cloud Memorystore is a highly scalable and highly available Redis service that is fully hosted and managed by the […]