Jaikumar Vijayan

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Vijayan is an award-winning independent journalist and tech content creation specialist covering data security and privacy, business intelligence, big data and data analytics.

Google Releases Details on Its Cloud Data Deletion Process

Google this week released detailed information about the process the company uses for handling data deletion requests by enterprises using its cloud services. In a whitepaper titled Data Deletion on Google Cloud Platform, the company explains how the process is designed to ensure safe and effective deletion of data from active systems, backup volumes and […]

Google Announces Stackdriver Workspaces for Monitoring Cloud Resources

Google has announced Stackdriver Workspaces, a tool that enterprises can use to monitor workloads and computing resources across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), on-premises and Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. With it, organizations can better organize and manage data from all of the tools used to monitor workloads in the cloud, such as Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring, […]

Google Outlines Incident Response Process for Cloud Customers

In its ongoing campaign to build trust through transparency, Google this week released a white paper describing the company’s process for responding to incidents impacting the confidentiality, integrity or availability of customer data. The paper shows that Google has implemented a four-phased approach for responding to data incidents, which it describes as a breach of […]

Google’s Cloud Access Transparency Logs Now Generally Available

A Google product that allows enterprises to know when and for what reason a Google administrator might have accessed their cloud data is now generally available.  Customers of six Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including Compute Engine, App Engine and Cloud Storage can now use the company’s recently announced Access Transparency Logs to monitor any […]

Google-Cisco Hybrid Cloud Offering Now Generally Available

A hybrid cloud offering that Google launched last October in collaboration with Cisco is now generally available to customers of Google’s cloud platform.  The Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud is designed to give enterprises a way to develop, deploy manage and secure applications across both on-premises environments and on Google’s Cloud Platform (GCP).  […]

Google Expands ‘Android Enterprise Recommended’ Mobile Device Program

Google has expanded its Android Enterprise Recommended program under which it is certifying Android devices as being suited for enterprise use if they meet specific requirements for hardware, software, security and other features.  This week the company announced that it would now start certifying Android devices as being ‘rugged’ under the same program if the […]

Watchdog Group Bypasses Google Controls to Buy Divisive Political Ads

Watchdog group Campaign for Accountability this week accused Google of not doing enough to prevent foreign actors from interfering in U.S. elections after the group was able to buy politically divisive ads on Google while posing as a Russian company known for spreading disinformation.  In a report released Sept. 4, the CfA described how it […]

Google Claims MasterCard Data Deal Doesn’t Violate Privacy Rights

Google is downplaying concerns about the privacy implications of an analysis tool—powered with data from MasterCard—that lets advertisers know how well their online ads are doing in driving sales in physical stores.  Google announced the ‘Store Sales Measurement’ tool last year describing it as a technology that would let advertisers’ link online ads with purchases […]

Google Starts Beta Evaluation of New AI Developer Tools

Google has released more details about three new tools it announced last month to help developers more easily integrate machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities into their applications.  Google’s AutoML Vision, AutoML Natural Language, and AutoML Translation are part of a broader Cloud AutoML suite of Google machine learning offerings aimed at helping developers train high-quality machine […]

Google Releases Spring Programming Model for Java on Cloud Platform

Google is making it easier for Java developers to build applications using the Spring software programming model on its cloud platform.  The company on Aug. 8 announced general availability of Spring Cloud GCP 1.0 on its cloud platform.  The technology, developed in collaboration with Pivotal Research, will allow developers using GCP to more easily build […]