Jaikumar Vijayan

Google CEO Sundar Pichai this week touted several examples of how the company has successfully used artificial intelligence approaches and machine learning to improve its products and services in recent years.  Speaking at the company’s annual Google I/O developer conference at the company’s Mountain View, Calif. headquarters, Pichai on May 8 described AI as presenting […]

Organizations using the Kubernetes platform to build and deploy container applications now have a new option for monitoring the environment for performance-impacting bugs, bottlenecks and abnormal behavior. Google this week announced the beta release of Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring for aggregating logs event data and other metrics from Kubernetes environments. Developers and operations teams can use […]

Google, under pressure to remove videos containing terrorist content, hate speech, spam and other offensive material from YouTube, took down 8 million such videos in the three-month period between October and December 2017. A vast majority of those videos—6.7 million—were flagged for removal by automated systems powered by Google machine learning technology. Of that number, […]

Organizations running machine learning and high performance computing workloads on Google’s cloud computing platform now have a new option for accelerating application performance.  The company this week announced beta availability of Nvidia’s Tesla V100 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for customers of the Google Compute Engine infrastructure as a service (IaaS) component and the Kubernetes Engine […]

Google is making it simpler for organizations to connect Kubernetes application clusters to Google’s suite of cloud platform services.  The company has released a new services framework that includes the Kubernetes Service Catalog and the Google Cloud Platform Service Broker hosted service. The catalog provides a collection of Google Cloud Platform Services available to Kubernetes […]

Google has introduced new security and productivity features in Gmail as part of one of the most comprehensive updates ever to the popular email service.  The updates include a brand new look for Gmail on the web and a new feature called Tasks for tracking deadlines, keeping on top of to-do lists and organizing work.  […]

Google has decided to stop work on its Allo messaging app for Android and iOS devices. The company will now focus on updating its native Android Messages app with features based on the Rich Communications Services (RCS) protocol instead while continuing to push for broad carrier adoption of the RCS standard. Almost all of Google’s […]

Google has rolled out several major updates to its Cloud Speech-to-Text speech recognition technology.  The overhaul is the biggest since Google announced the service two years ago and is designed to make Speech-to-Text more useful for businesses.  Among the updates are pre-built models for transcribing phone calls and video, features that support automatic punctuation, and […]

As a company that operates multiple hyperscale data centers around the world Google has been on a mission in recent years to cut down on its energy consumption and carbon footprint.  For the first time since the effort began, Google purchased in 2017 enough energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar to exceed […]

Enterprise customers of Google’s cloud platform now have a new option for logging and monitoring network traffic for security and performance issues.  The company this week introduced VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) Flow Logs, a function that gives administrators a way to track network flows down to individual interfaces in a near real-time manner.  Organizations can […]