Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has released a new open-source tool for verifying PostgreSQL (Postgres) database backups.  Enterprises using the PostgresSQL can use the tool to verify if any data corruption or data loss has occurred when backing up their database.  Google is already using the tool for customers of Google Cloud SQL for Postgres. Starting this week, it […]

Google has introduced a new cloud-billing feature that it says will enable enterprises to budget costs better by allowing them to quickly see how much they are likely to spend on cloud usage in a particular month.  The new forecasting feature lets administrators see how costs are trending during a particular month and how much […]

Google wants to make it easier for Java developers to containerize their applications. The company this week announced Jib, an open-source Java tool that it says will enable developers to build Java containers more easily using tools with which they are already familiar. In a blog post July 9, Google software engineers Appu Goundan and […]

Google this week found itself on the defensive after the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy report the practice by the company and some other email provides of allowing third-party software developers to access the contents of email messages of people using their apps.  In a blog July 3, Google Cloud’s director of security, trust […]

Google is reviewing the manner in which it responds to potential fraudulent activity involving cloud customer accounts following criticism over a recent incident in which the company briefly shut down a customer’s critical production application without warning.  In its Medium blog July 2, Google engineering support regional lead Brian Bender apologized for suspending services on […]

Google has shared more details of its efforts to implement BeyondCorp a security approach the company has been using internally for years to control access to enterprise systems and data.  In a blog July 2, Max Saltonstall, technical director of Google’s office of the CTO said the company was releasing the information so other organizations […]

Business customers of Google’s cloud platform now have another option for protecting data on disks, images and backup resources in the cloud.  The company June 22 announced beta availability of a customer-managed encryption keys (CMEKs) feature that is aimed at giving enterprises more control over the default encryption that Google uses to protect data at […]

Google has updated its Hire recruiting app with new features that the company says makes it easier for corporate human resources and recruiting staffs to find and hire new employees.  Like many Google products and services these days the updates to Hire incorporate artificial intelligence capabilities. The new features are designed to speed up the […]

Partner Interconnect, a high-bandwidth, private network connectivity option for business customers of Google’s cloud platform, is now generally available.  Starting this week, organizations can use the option to connect their data centers and on-premise resources to Google’s cloud infrastructure from a Google partner location or network.  With general availability, beta customers of Partner Interconnect will […]

Business customers of Google’s G Suite collection of cloud-hosted applications now have a new way of quickly building custom apps to speed up workflows, improve processes and to handle tasks that are not typically addressed by large enterprise applications.  The company on June 14 announced general availability of App Maker, a low-code application development tool […]

Google’s Analytics 360 data analytics platform has been integrated with Saleforce’s Marketing Cloud.  The integration will give organizations a way to get better insights about their customers to boost the effectiveness of marketing efforts, Salesforce announced June 13.  Enterprises for example will now be to view customer data gathered from multiple sales channels in both […]

Google’s cloud customers now have a new option for using GPUs to run compute-intensive applications without having to pay full price for the extra performance. Starting this week, Google is making its preemptible pricing model generally available for GPUs attached to preemptible virtual machines (VMs) on Google’s cloud.  The preemptible option allows companies to get […]