Google goes 'all-in' on enterprise cloud

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CIO Cloud Computing Mar 28, 2016 Google goes 'all-in' on enterprise cloud A group of Google executives this week reinforced the company's commitment to the enterprise cloud — one of its fastest growing businesses — and said it has made more than 300 improvements to the Google Cloud Platform during the past year. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Is the hybrid cloud's biggest challenge a lack of expertise? • Why Dropbox dropped Amazon's cloud • Make the most of free Amazon Web Services • What will Google do to make its cloud appeal to more companies? • Oracle wants to put its public cloud behind your firewall • How machine learning will take off in the cloud Solution Center: Salesforce Salesforce App Cloud Solution Center Transform IT with Salesforce App Cloud. Access this Solution Center for Analyst Reports, Whitepapers, Webinars, and Videos to see how Salesforce App Cloud can transform your enterprise. Read More ▶ Is the hybrid cloud's biggest challenge a lack of expertise? Making the business case for embracing cloud services isn't the challenge it once was. What is proving to be more of a hurdle to wider-scale cloud adoption is the lack of expertise, experience and resources to take advantage of what's now possible. Read More ▶ Why Dropbox dropped Amazon's cloud Dropbox has culminated a multi-year project to build a customized infrastructure environment that company officials say is finely tuned to their specific needs, allowing them to reap savings compared with how they used Amazon Web Services' cloud. Should you get out of the cloud too? Read More ▶ Make the most of free Amazon Web Services If you avoid the gotchas and keep a close eye on resource consumption, you can have a useful server in the Amazon cloud for free Read More ▶ What will Google do to make its cloud appeal to more companies? Google executives have to convince enterprise decision makers to trust in its public cloud offering, and a major keynote on Wednesday offers a major stage to do just that. Read More ▶ Oracle wants to put its public cloud behind your firewall Public clouds may promise a world of potential benefits, but for companies grappling with data sovereignty and other issues, the risks can loom large. Hoping to ease such concerns, Oracle launched a product on Thursday that effectively puts its public cloud behind the enterprise firewall. Read More ▶ How machine learning will take off in the cloud Wix, a web development company, is using machine learning on Google's cloud platform to learn more about its users so it can help them find the images they need to build useful websites. It's one example of how Google sees companies applying its machine learning service in the cloud. Read More ▶ White Paper: Cornestone OnDemand Why the Cloud Makes Sense for Talent Management As midsize companies need to compete with larger, wealthier firms for hard-to-find employees, talent management-the ability to track employees from recruitment to succession-becomes more strategic. Read More ▶ 10 tips for CIOs looking for a seat on the board Here's how IT leaders from Procter & Gamble, Biogen and Google Ventures secured their seats. Learn more ▶ The dirty dozen: 12 cloud security threats These are the top security threats organizations face when using cloud services. Meet the 'Treacherous 12 ▶

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