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Google is creating a new division that will focus on helping US public sector organizations to accelerate the adoption of Google Cloud technologies. The company says that Google Public Sector caters to the growing needs of federal, state, and local governments, as well as educational institutions. This new Google Public Sector division specifically aims to…

Microsoft is planning to make some changes to the way it licenses its products to customers who wish to use them on rival cloud platforms. According to a new report from Bloomberg, several customers have filed complaints against Microsoft’s policies regarding running Windows and Office on other cloud-computing services such as Google Cloud Platform or…

Microsoft has announced this morning some improvements for its Defender for Cloud suite. The company says that the Microsoft Defender for Cloud service will now provide native support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments, and this capability is currently available in public preview for all enterprise customers. Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly known as Azure…

Like many businesses today, VMware has embraced Kubernetes as a path forward to rearchitect modern apps and extend infrastructure and app management across the data center, edge and cloud.

The cloud market has continued to grow at a rapid pace and according to research by Synergy Research Group Amazon AWS remains the clear leader in the cloud market. Synergy Research Group estimated that cloud growth is 37% per year and they also noted that the rate of growth for the cloud market is beginning to slow down.

For the past half-decade or so, Google has been trying feverishly to crack the enterprise market with its cloud and productivity application. While the company has made some serious in-roads, with its cloud services growing and the adoption of its productivity suite, Google Apps, often becoming the preferred choice for small companies, Microsoft still rules the roost for the productivity market.

Using the cloud as a backup target is definitely one of the ways that many businesses are adopting the hybrid cloud. Today, almost all businesses are dealing with massive data growth. The research firm IDC has estimated that overall data is doubling every two years. Keeping up with this level of data growth is tough…

Seamlessly extending your local storage to the cloud is what hybrid cloud storage appliances offer. Sometimes these hybrid cloud storage options are extensions to local storage systems or sometimes they are specifically designed for hybrid cloud storage.

Google has announced several new features that are coming to Chrome OS that will make it easier to use the operating system in corporate environments.

This past July 2019, VMware added Google to their list of hybrid cloud partners that enable you to run vSphere Cloud Foundation in the public cloud. VMware has previously announced similar partnerships with Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Google has announced a new feature for its cloud platform that makes it significantly easier to migrate VMs from Azure to Google Compute Engine.

Anthos is definitely about modernization. While it may take Google some time to gain enterprise traction I think this move clearly shows that seamless hybrid cloud and multi-cloud connectivity is the wave of the future.