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It placed highest on Ability to Execute and furthest on Completeness of Vision in the 2019 Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM).

This includes embedding Google’s machine learning within conversation services for the contact centre, enabling integration of AI capabilities.

Google's Emma Haruka Iwao sets a new Guinness World Record by calculating pi to 31.4 trillion digits using Google Cloud, a first in cloud computing history.

8x8 integrates its contact centre with Google Cloud's contact centre AI to improve customer service and productivity.

Google kicked off the new region launch with a dedicated event in Zurich which brought in more than 800 business representatives and developers.

ADLINK and Google Cloud join forces to integrate edge computing solutions with cloud, enabling real-time data analysis and streamlined IoT deployments.

This week Cisco is building ‘the bridge to possible’ to more than 8000 people expected to attend the Cisco Live 2019 conference in Melbourne.

Rackware's CEO believes Google is going to be doing more acquisitions and buying an enterprise salesforce to grow more aggressively.

Google's latest US$13 billion investment in its US data centres marks a strategic move to gain ground in the competitive cloud market, says Francesco Paola.

CSP is a platform that aims to simplify building, running, and managing services both on-premise and in the cloud.

Equinix reports a surge in NSP adoption of ECX Fabric, driven by the demand for on-demand, private multicloud connectivity from providers like AWS and Azure.

Google is currently behind AWS and Microsoft in the cloud battle, and it would seem this play is an attempt to claw some ground back.

According to Canalys, spending grew by 46% in 4Q18 and AWS maintained dominance with nearly a third of the total.

According to IDC, 92% of organisations have adopted a cloud environment with 64% adopting a multi-cloud approach.

Canalys analysts say the huge growth in cloud services will be of benefit to channel partners with a number of incentives.

Last year saw almost manic growth in revenue for cloud providers as businesses continue to seek the benefits the services can provide.

Opening a second data centre in Indonesia, a relatively small but growing IT economy, shows Alibaba is thinking strategically about its place in APAC.

While the Big Four providers will have the lion’s share, lock-in will be avoided through multi-cloud and cloud-native approaches.

BigCommerce has migrated its hosting infrastructure to Google Cloud, offering faster page load times and improved customer experience for its 60,000 merchants.

In an exclusive interview, Scality’s Paul Speciale shares his thoughts on the data centre and cloud industries.