It’s not every day that you read a headline with both Google and Microsoft. Google is announcing today that its managed database service Cloud SQL will soon support Microsoft SQL Server. The company ...

While the cloud continues to grow in popularity for many, if not most, enterprise applications, IT departments remain reluctant to trust public clouds, including the Google Cloud Platform, for ...

A step-by-step guide to using SAN-less failover clustering software to support SQL Server’s Always On Failover Clustering in the public cloud The thing about clouds is that they can change shape even ...

The connector makes it easier to bring data from Microsoft SQL databases into Google Data Studio. The launch of a new Google Data Studio connector isn't typically something to write home about. But ...

On Thursday, Google announced a whole series of database and data analytics improvements to its cloud data architecture. In this article, we'll focus on the substantial improvements to Spanner and ...

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Google doesn’t talk about its server operations very often; most of what we know boils down to one word: “big.” The company lifted the lid ever-so-slightly yesterday (no April Fool), and gave the ...

Google for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet operations at a conference about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency, reports CNET's ...

Just wondering if anyone has had to do this and what you thought the best way was?<BR><BR>It's for a customer services type program so it's holding the standard sort of data you'd have on people.

Unusually, the search giant designs its own servers. For the first time, Google unveils one publicly, showing a surprise built-in battery. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...