Google is bringing its global NewSQL database system ‘Spanner,’ responsible for keeping more than 2,000 of its services running, to Google Cloud Platform. Launching as a public beta, the distributed ...

Google has proven time and again it is on the extreme bleeding edge of invention when it comes to scale out architectures that make supercomputers look like toys. But what would the world look like if ...

Each morning, when Andrew Fikes sat down at his desk inside Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, he turned on the "VC" link to New York. VC is Google shorthand for video conference.

At its annual Cloud Next conference, Google Cloud today announced the general availability of Cloud Spanner Data Boost. Data Boost is a fully managed serverless service that allows users to analyze ...

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Australia's largest spanner crab company is urging the Queensland Government not to bow to pressure to increase the fishing quota for the species until there is scientific evidence the population has ...

Because of the confluence of the these announcements, from two of the three leading public cloud providers, I thought it would be useful to follow up my Cosmos DB coverage with coverage for Cloud ...

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