Jaikumar Vijayan

Enterprises using Google’s cloud load balancing to distribute their application workloads now have more control over how the service secures connections to client systems.  Google this week announced Secure Sockets Layer Policies for HTTPS and SSL Proxy Load Balancers, a new capability that gives administrators a way to specify the TLS version and profile of […]

Google this week released a beta version of Flutter, a new mobile application user interface framework that the company first announced last year.  Developers can use Flutter to speed up the process of building native mobile apps for both Android and iOS devices because applications and interfaces made with Flutter are built from a single […]

Google’s Compute Engine cloud platform unit has introduced new management features that the company says makes it easier for enterprises to create, clone and manage VMs.  One of the updates to Google Compute Engine’s so-called “instance templates” allows organizations to create virtual machine instances from existing templates. Organizations can use the capability to create VMs […]

Google has launched a new program under which it will certify Android devices that meet certain security and other requirements as being suitable for enterprise use.  The new Android Enterprise Recommended program is designed to give organizations more confidence in the enterprise readiness of Android devices for work purposes. The program, according to Google, establishes […]

Google has unified its mobile and web payment services under a single brand as part of a broader effort to enable a more consistent payment experience across its products.  Effective this week, Google’s new Google Pay app for Android has replaced the company’s previously separate Android Pay and Google Wallet apps. Users can use credit […]

Google has announced plans to acquire LogMeIn’s Xively business unit for $50 million in a move that should help bolster Google’s capabilities in the IoT device management space.  Xively’s IoT management, messaging and dashboard technologies will become part of Google’s Cloud IoT Core, a managed service for connecting and managing distributed internet-connected devices.  Antony Passemard, […]

Google this week announced general availability of new high-performance virtual machine configuration options for enterprises running large workloads on its cloud platform.  The new VM configurations support up to 96 virtual CPUs and up to 624 gigabytes of memory. The VM types are optimized to take advantage of the substantial performance gains offered by Google’s […]

Google has released a new family of internally designed hardware accelerators for speeding up certain machine learning workloads on the company’s cloud platform.  Google’s new Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are available for beta evaluation purposes starting this week. Each TPU comprises of four application specific integrated circuits (ASICs). A single TPU packs up to […]

The clock is winding down for website owners to adopt HTTPS encryption. Starting July, Google’s Chrome browser will start labeling any site and any web page still using HTTP as “not secure”. The move is part of a long-standing effort by Google to get websites everywhere to use encryption to better protect Internet communications and […]

Google last year paid $2.9 million in total to bug hunters who found security vulnerabilities in its products and services. The amount is slightly less than the over $3 million the company paid out in bug bounties in 2016. It brings to over $12 million that Google has paid in total for vulnerability discoveries since […]