Jaikumar Vijayan

Google is making it easier for enterprises to do application load tests at scale using the cloud as test infrastructure. Starting this week, organizations will be able to use Google Cloud Platform, application containers and the company’s Kubernetes container cluster management software to test how their infrastructure will hold up under different application workloads. The […]

Google today dismissed a study, which two academic researchers conducted and Yelp sponsored, that claims the company is deliberately degrading search engine results in order to favor its own content over that of rivals. In a statement to eWEEK, Google said Yelp’s claims are not new. “Yelp’s been making these arguments to regulators, and demanding […]

Laws that require organizations to store customer data in a specific country or geographic location undermine many of the economic benefits of cloud computing, Google said, quoting a new report from the Leviathan Security Group. Data localization laws run counter to the direction of technological innovation and erode the cost-efficiencies of a distributed cloud hosted […]

Google will build its 14th major data center on the site of the Widows Creek coal power plant in Jackson County, Alabama. The plant is scheduled to be shut down and Google intends redevelop the site to erect its new $600 million data center. The company will reuse existing electric and other infrastructure where it […]

Google has removed an audio listening component from the Chromium open source browser after some developers complained the code was being quietly installed and activated on the browser without the user’s knowledge or consent. However, the company flatly denied the so-called hotwording component was doing the same on its proprietary Chrome browser, and insisted that […]

Cloud vendors are rushing to enable support for application containers on their platforms amid what appears to be surging enterprise interest in containerization as a way to improve application portability and delivery. One example is Google, which this week announced beta availability of its Google Container Engine for helping DevOps teams and IT administrators more […]

Google has launched a new portal dubbed News Lab that seeks to connect journalists with tools, programs and data to aid in their reporting. In a blog post Monday, the director of the new site, Steve Grove, described News Lab as an effort to empower better journalism through the innovative use of new digital technologies […]

Engineers from Google and the other major browser makers, including Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla, are working on a new standard dubbed WebAssembly (wasm) for running compiled code in Web browsers. When complete, WebAssembly will be a new machine-readable instruction set, or bytecode, that will let non-JavaScript source code run more efficiently in modern browsers. WebAssembly […]

Anyone wondering just how much network capacity it takes for Google to deliver all of its myriad services might want to consider this: The company’s current-generation data center networks deliver enough bandwidth to read the entire scanned contents of the Library of Congress in less than one-tenth of one second. Amin Vahdat, a Google Fellow […]

Two years after Google announced beta availability of its App Engine for PHP, the company has finally made it generally available. The announcement means that the company’s App Engine service-level agreement and deprecation policy now cover PHP apps running on Google’s Cloud Platform. The general availability news was one of three updates pertaining to Google’s […]