Google

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.

Javier Soltero, ex-boss of Outlook, is now running G Suite for Google. The appointment is an opportunity to reboot G Suite to take on Office 365 and make up some of the ground that’s been lost in the last five years using the “new brush sweeps clean” principle. In other news, Microsoft bought Mover to acquire its migration connectors that move files into SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, including files from Google Drive.

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.

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

Google’s new Anthos service aims to make multi-cloud operations, significantly easier with support for all the major players in the segment.

When it comes to picking a cloud vendor, putting all your eggs in one basket might be the easiest option, but it’s not a best practice.

Microsoft plans to deliver new migration tools to move Google G Suite email, contact, and calendar data to Office 365 (which means Exchage Online) by Q2 2019. The new tools are likely to move from the existing implementation built around the antique IMAP4 protocol, which only covers email and is prone to throttling by Google.

Google recently announced Firebase In-App Messaging, a new service that enables developers to configure triggers that send in-app messages to iOS and Android users.

Google recently introduced the Firestore Security Rules Simulator – a new tool that developers and administrators can use to write and test security rules for Google’s Cloud Firestore database in a quick and efficient manner.

Google recently announced the coming beta of Cloud Filestore. This is a new service that will provide customers with managed storage with a shared file system interface.