hybrid cloud special report – SiliconANGLE

Value is the new lock-in: Apigee seeks to transform applications in a hybrid world

Mark Albertson — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:00:48 +0000

With all of the talk in the enterprise about applications, what do they really mean to the average employee? In many instances, applications drive personalization on the web. One example of this can be found in the growth of “my” sites, with the ability for users to structure how they use a site’s products or services […]

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Google Cloud CMO shares her tech journey and insights on Anthos

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 19:00:33 +0000

Google LLC’s Cloud Services Platform always seemed a prosaic name, especially alongside a product pantheon that includes the container-orchestration system Kubernetes (meaning in Greek: helmsman) and microservice mesh Istio (meaning: sail). This changed at the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco last week, when CSP was reborn as an open, hybrid platform under the name […]

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Google Fellow Eric Brewer offers insight into Anthos and open-source strategy

Mark Albertson — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 21:30:54 +0000

While there is a great deal of evidence that enterprises are moving en masse to the cloud, one key piece of data puts the transformation in perspective. According to statistics cited by Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian, 80% of workloads are still on-premises. This percentage alone offers a reason why Google Cloud introduced […]

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What’s really inside Google’s new multicloud packaging?

R. Danes — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 20:18:57 +0000

Customers have finally succeeded in dragging cloud providers kicking and screaming into their hybrid computing reality. Most aren’t ditching their on-premises data centers just yet, and vendors have gotten the message. Google Cloud Platform has joined the party, saying all the right words about hybrid-cloud and multicloud choice and portability. But does it actually have […]

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Wrapping up Next, Google pushes multiclouds to top of customers’ IT strategies

James Kobielus — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 05:23:39 +0000

Google LLC made an impressive showing at its annual Cloud Next conference this week in San Francisco. In the arena for hybrid and multicloud computing, it differentiated its value proposition in several respects: Strong multicloud offering: Google’s general-availability release of Anthos signaled its deep commitment to helping its customers blend on-premises IT assets with the hyperscalable […]

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NetApp CEO sees integration as the core asset in a hybrid world

Mark Albertson — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 23:16:14 +0000

Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian’s twin brother, George, shares a lot more than the same personal features. Both are now CEOs of major technology businesses, both grew up together in India and both possess a strong affinity for the hybrid, multicloud world. For George Kurian (pictured), CEO of NetApp Inc., the hybrid model […]

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Multicloud APIs make friends via refreshed Google Apigee

R. Danes — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:35:45 +0000

As more and more companies disperse their software applications across different computing environments, they’re seeking the right tools to make it all gel. Application program interfaces are often touted as a key tool to get apps talking to each other, because API management can build productive bridges between hybrid-cloud and multicloud APIs and apps. Google Cloud […]

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Cloud Next day two wrap: Google makes a strong developer push

James Kobielus — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 04:36:46 +0000

Google LLC made even more product announcements on day two of its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco than on the opening day of the event — this time aimed chiefly at software developers. Google is very clearly reaching out to the core enterprise customers that have flocked in greater numbers to its principal public-cloud […]

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Will Google Cloud lose its futurist flair to gain enterprise cloud share?

R. Danes — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 19:57:22 +0000

Google Cloud Platform serves up some of the most advanced, bleeding-edge technology of any hyperscale technology provider. So why does it have just 9% of the public-cloud market? What sane enterprise wouldn’t greedily hoard the tech that made Google the third-richest company on earth? Enterprises that move at the real-world speed of a Buick rather than […]

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Google debuts new cloud networking tools to court enterprises

Maria Deutscher — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:38:04 +0000

Google LLC today introduced two new networking tools for its cloud platform that aim to simplify the management of infrastructure-as-a-service environments, as well as make it easier to link them with a company’s on-premises data centers. The first addition announced at the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco is a product called Traffic Director. It provides […]

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With Cloud Code, Google aims to speed up cloud-native app development

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:00:56 +0000

Google LLC wants developers to build more of their applications in Kubernetes-based containers hosted on its cloud. To encourage that, today it’s introducing a new set of plugins called Google Cloud Code, which allows apps built with Integrated Development Environments such as IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code to be deployed to Kubernetes more easily. IDEs […]

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Day one wrap at Next: Multicloud stars as Google Cloud opens up its strategy

James Kobielus — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 23:59:11 +0000

Google had been inching into the hybrid cloud market over the past year. As it did so, it scarcely made an attempt to enter the growing multicloud arena. But what a difference a day makes! In the day one keynote today at Google Cloud Next in San Francisco, new Chief Executive Thomas Kurian made several announcements that […]

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Google Cloud unveils Anthos amid questions on enterprise strategy and acquisitions

Mark Albertson — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 22:24:39 +0000

Google LLC rebranded its Cloud Services Platform today under the name of Anthos, the Greek term for “flowers.” Anthos will have general availability on 30 launch partners, including Cisco Systems Inc. and Dell EMC, according to Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian, raising hopes that the hybrid platform will blossom into a multicloud engine that can drive […]

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Get ready for the monetization of hybrid cloud, says Wikibon research

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 18:30:56 +0000

The battle for cloud computing supremacy seems to have come to an unexpected end, and the winner is … multiple clouds! Wikibon Inc. research shows that large and midsized businesses are choosing hybrid solutions over solely using a private cloud or processing data on a single public cloud, opening opportunities for vendor monetization. “The battle of […]

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Analysis: At Next, Google stakes new ground in multicloud computing

Robert Hof — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 17:34:44 +0000

In his first big public appearance as Google Cloud’s chief executive, Thomas Kurian today sketched a vision of the company as a breath of fresh air for enterprises grappling with how to move to the cloud without jettisoning their core applications. The longtime Oracle Corp. veteran (pictured), who joined Google LLC’s cloud unit in January […]

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Cisco expands hybrid and multicloud collaboration with Google

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 16:30:16 +0000

Cisco Systems Inc. is throwing its weight behind Google Cloud’s hybrid cloud services platform, newly rebranded as Anthos. The networking giant is integrating some of its core hardware platforms and software products with Google Cloud’s Anthos, formerly called Cloud Services Platform. It’s all part of a push by Cisco to become more relevant in a […]

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Google Cloud Run brings serverless infrastructure to software containers

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 16:00:46 +0000

Hoping to steal a march on its bigger cloud computing rivals, Google LLC is shaking up its stack of serverless software that enables developers to building applications in a more automated way. It’s doing so with a new offering called Cloud Run for developers announced today at its Cloud Next conference (pictured) in San Francisco. […]

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Google to expand cloud infrastructure with new regions in Seoul and Salt Lake City

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 16:00:33 +0000

Google LLC today said it’s adding to its cloud infrastructure with new data center facilities in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Seoul, South Korea, that will help it scale up its capacity to cater for its growing customer base. The new cloud regions are scheduled to open in early 2020, and will each offer three […]

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Google brings the cream of open-source software to its cloud

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 16:00:16 +0000

Google LLC today revealed that it’s teaming up with a raft of prominent open-source software companies in a massive expansion of the number of “first class” services available on its public cloud. Opening its annual Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today, the internet giant announced “strategic partnerships” with Confluent Inc., DataStax Inc., Elastic NV, […]

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Google Cloud’s second act opens as new CEO Thomas Kurian headlines Next ’19

Mark Albertson — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 14:00:22 +0000

F. Scott Fitzgerald once memorably wrote that there are “no second acts in American lives.” We are about to find out if there are second acts for cloud computing providers. When the curtain goes up for Google Cloud Next ’19 this morning in San Francisco, two questions will be foremost on the minds of attendees: What […]

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As hybrids flower, a new era dawns in cloud computing

Paul Gillin — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 00:10:56 +0000

For Kenny Mullican, the decision about whether to use a hybrid cloud was once cut-and-dried. “It was a binary choice between your own servers and going with a public cloud,” said the chief information officer at Paragon Films Inc. Fear of losing control over mission-critical systems is one reason the company, which makes stretch films […]

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Businesses must beware shiny pennies in the rush to the cloud

R. Danes — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 19:00:05 +0000

Many companies in hybrid computing limbo are in a rush to move to all-in cloud nirvana. But there are a lot of shiny pennies to stumble on along the path. Enterprise information technology leaders know their names — microservices, containers and Kubernetes, to name a few temptations. But ask them exactly what’s useful about them, […]

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The challenge of ensuring effective security across the multicloud

James Kobielus — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 17:53:50 +0000

The best security is by design. But that raises a problem when securing a multicloud. Multiclouds rarely originate from a conscious design. More often than not, they are an attempt to bring architectural coherence to disparate systems, networks and applications that were deployed independently and interconnected haphazardly. Securing a multicloud requires that information technology professionals […]

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On the verge of Next ’19, Google must double down on cloud applications

James Kobielus — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:24:21 +0000

Google is deep into the application development ecosystem, if for no other reason than that it created many open-source components that have since become ubiquitous. Google’s DNA is all over modern applications. It would be difficult to find modern web apps that aren’t written for the Chrome browser, mobile apps that don’t work with the […]

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True hybrid cloud moves toward the mainstream

Stuart Miniman — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 19:12:24 +0000

In the beginning, the only “real” cloud was public cloud. There were those that thought that it wasn’t a fit for the enterprise, or perhaps would only be used for test/dev environments. And there were plenty of historical failures for solutions before public cloud to bolster these assertions. But today we know that public cloud […]

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Mesh madness: The flattening of multicloud networking

James Kobielus — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 23:28:14 +0000

Multiclouds are flattening from end to end. As we move into the coming decade, centralized and hub-and-spoke networking among clouds will decline in importance in enterprise architectures. As data gravity pushes more cloud topologies toward the edge, Wikibon sees multiclouds evolving into radically distributed mesh architectures at the infrastructure, platform and application levels. In fact, […]

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Looking ahead to Next ’19, Google puts AI at the center of cloud hyperscaling

James Kobielus — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:17:11 +0000

Google LLC remains a powerhouse in artificial intelligence, which is a fundamental frontier in cloud, edge and enterprise computing. Hyperscaling is a principle that drives everything Google does in the AI market. A year ago on theCUBE at Big Data SV, a Google executive discussed AI best practices that the company executes comprehensively within its […]

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As Next ’19 approaches, Google confronts strategic challenges in the cloud

James Kobielus — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 20:07:11 +0000

Google has become one of the top-tier cloud vendors, with a key role in driving cloud-native open-source initiatives to ubiquitous adoption among enterprises and solution providers everywhere. It also remains a pacesetter in the core innovations behind cloud-native computing — especially in the Kubernetes container orchestration layer, the Istio mesh fabric and the Knative serverless abstraction layer. […]

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Power Panel Q&A: entrepreneurs on the future of specialty clouds and open source

Mark Albertson — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:00:04 +0000

Businesses of all sizes are sorting through the maze of cloud and software options available in the market today. Single cloud or multicloud? Proprietary software or open source? Those and other prime topics in enterprise computing got the full treatment recently in a special panel discussion on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s video studio in Palo Alto, […]

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At Think 2019, IBM brings AI to the multicloud but confronts formidable challenges

James Kobielus — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 04:06:57 +0000

The cloud wars are rapidly separating public cloud leaders from the rest of the pack. Where does IBM Corp. stand now in the cloud market? Considering how far behind its public cloud is against Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in market share, the technology giant has wisely chosen to step up its focus on […]

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