Google Cloud

Google announces second Australian cloud region in Melbourne
Google will open a new cloud region in Melbourne which is expected to come online in 2021 to cater for the growing demand for cloud services across Australia. Google Australia opened its first cloud region in Sydney in July 2017 and says it wants to build the “most secure, high

Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud and now Microsoft Azure – Why does Salesforce want to run its software on all of them?
This week Salesforce named Microsoft Azure as its public cloud provider for marketing cloud. Microsoft is the fourth IaaS platform on which Salesforce wants to run its software. The Salesforce relationships with Amazon AWS and Google Cloud were dated back to 2016 and 2017 respectively. The last partnership with Alibaba Cloud was sealed

Cloud giants dominate as IaaS market continues to grow
The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 31.3 per cent in 2018 to total $32.4 billion, up from $24.7 billion in 2017, according to Gartner. Amazon was once again the number one vendor in the IaaS market in 2018, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and IBM. “Despite strong

Google Cloud announces new hybrid platform, Australia Post partnership
Google has debuted its new hybrid cloud management platform, Anthos, allowing enterprises to manage and deploy workloads across both Google’s public cloud, on premise and other public clouds. Google Cloud said the new platform is a response to the increasingly hybrid cloud infrastructure organisations are opting for, and the move

Marketo’s Google alliance reflects deep conviction about the Adtech-Martech merger
It’s time to tear up the rulebook, says Marketo CEO Steve Lucas. He made the comments in an interview with Which-50 at the company’s recent annual user conference in San Francisco. Almost two years after being acquired by private equity firm Vista, Marketo has invested hundreds of millions of dollars

Marketo Is Building AI Enhancements with Google Cloud
Marketo has revealed more details of its multiyear alliance with Google Cloud, announced last year. The two companies are working together to create new products that make marketers’ lives easier by using Artificial Intelligence (AI). Leveraging Google Cloud’s machine learning technology, Marketo is working with Google’s experts to create new