Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has released more details on Shielded VMs, a suite of security tools and techniques that the company announced recently for protecting enterprise cloud workloads against malicious software and other cyber-threats at the hardware and firmware levels.  Google rolled out Shielded VMs in beta at its Cloud Next partner conference last month. According to the […]

Google has removed 145 Android applications from its Play mobile app store after a security vendor discovered them to be infected with malware for stealing data from Windows computers.  The compromised applications, with names such as “Gymnastics Training Tutorial”, “Modification Trail” and “Learn to Draw Clothing” were uploaded to Google Play between October 2017 and […]

Administrators of Google’s G Suite collection of cloud-hosted productivity apps can now get alerts from Google of potential government-sponsored backed attempts to break into their account.  The company has added a new feature to the administration console in G Suite that will trigger an email alert to enterprise customers any time Google’s threat-detection system detects […]

Organizations can now run a managed version of the Istio open source project on Google’s cloud platform to connect, monitor and manage microservices.  Google, along with IBM and other members of the open source community July 31 announced the release into full production of Istio 1.0 the latest version of the software that is stable […]

Google has made it easier for enterprise cloud administrators to monitor and understand how their application workloads are interacting with the company’s cloud platform and services.  Google on July 27 announced that it would now provide organizations with detailed and standardized metrics on the behavior of Google’s Cloud Platform (GCP) services that are related to […]

Google has introduced a new context-aware access control capability and hardware key based authentication support for enterprises using its cloud-computing platform (GCP). The new features are part of a broader set of security updates to its cloud services that Google announced at the company’s Next ’18 partner conference in San Francisco this week. Other major […]

Google and information storage giant Iron Mountain, which made its reputation maintaining underground storage facilities housing documents, film, artwork and lots of other valuables, revealed this week at Google Next ’18 that they will jointly develop new analytics offerings designed to help enterprises derive more business value from their data. Iron Mountain will deliver the […]

Google wants to make it easier for organizations to run Salesforce, Box, MongoDB, JFrog and other SaaS applications on the company’s cloud computing platform. So the huge internet services conglomerate on July 23 announced several new programs aimed at incentivizing its growing roster of partners to bring their SaaS applications to GCP. The announcements—to be […]

Google has launched a new effort to help enterprises implement a program similar to one the company is using internally that allows employees to quickly borrow a Chromebook in case their primary device stops working or isn’t immediately available.  Google says more than 30,000 employees have used its ‘Grab and Go’ program to loan out […]

The European Commission has slapped Google with a record-breaking $5 billion fine for imposing illegal restrictions on Android device manufacturers to further the company’s dominance in internet search. In a decision that has been widely expected for some time, the European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager gave Google 90 days to change its allegedly infringing […]

Google has implemented a new ‘Site Isolation’ feature in the latest version of its Chrome browser that the company says will help organizations better protect against attacks of the sort enabled by the Spectre processor flaws disclosed earlier this year.  The feature has been available on an experimental basis to enterprises since Chrome 63 but […]

Google and Informatica have announced a partnership aimed at helping enterprises more easily connect applications and services across multi-vendor cloud and on-premise environments.  The partnership gives organizations a unified platform—the Informatica Integration Cloud for Apigee—to develop, manage and integrate application programming interfaces (APIs) that connect applications and data, the two companies announced this week.  The […]