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/PRNewswire/ -- Futurex, a leader in hardened, enterprise-class data security solutions, today announced support for Google Cloud External Key Manager (EKM),...

Google first revealed BigQuery Omni, its Anthos-based multi-cloud data analytics solution, last summer. Today, at its annual Cloud Next event, the company announced that BigQuery Omni is generally available. What makes Omni different from similar services is that it allows its users to use the standard BigQuery interface they know to query data that sits […]

At its Cloud Next event, Google today announced the launch of Spark on Google Cloud as a fully managed service. With this, the popular open-source data processing engine will become a premium offering on Google Cloud. “With this innovation, Spark finally arrives in the cloud-native world,” said Gerrit Kazmaier, Google’s VP & GM for Database, […]

Google’s Chat collaboration app now integrates with Atlassian’s Jira, while no-code platform AppSheet can be accessed directly from Gmail. The moves were unveiled ahead of the Google Cloud Next event.

Customers can now use a carbon-footprint feature to see the gross emissions associated with their use of the Google Cloud platform.

Cloud computing, with its sprawling facilities filled with energy-hungry machines, is seen as a key area for environmental improvements.

Googles uncertainty over October Cloud conference means in-person I/O probably isnt happening The COVID-19 pandemic isnt over, even though a lot of people are pretending it is. But in October it might be, at least in a lot of places, thanks to rapid vaccine deployment. Google doesnt know whether travel will be safe by then, so its hedging its bets with the Cloud Next 21 conference. Its definitely happening, but whether it will be in person or online is still up in the air. The event, in-person...

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