The way people shop online and in stores is changing. Large retailers are trying new ways to make search, product discovery and support feel more fluid and more personalised. The Australian retail group Wesfarmers unveiled a partnership with Google Cloud designed to do just that, using advanced AI tools to build a new customer experience […]
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Alphabet’s expanding AI cloud infrastructure push shows how demand is putting real pressure on the systems that power enterprise computing. Hyperscale providers are responding by sharply increasing spending on compute capacity, but supply remains tight as AI workloads grow faster than data centre buildouts. Alphabet’s latest earnings call offered a clear window into that tension. […]
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For Airbus, the cloud is no longer just an IT decision. It has become a question of control. Europe’s largest aerospace group is weighing a move away from two of its most important technology suppliers—Google and Microsoft—as it looks for a cloud environment governed entirely by European rules. According to reporting by The Register, Airbus […]
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A new multicloud networking service built by Amazon and Google is now available, giving companies a faster way to link the two tech giants’ cloud platforms at a time when even short internet outages can disrupt major online services. The system lets customers set up private, high-speed connections between AWS and Google Cloud in minutes […]
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Google Cloud has picked up another major contract to deliver secure, sovereign cloud services to a military agency, only a few months after it signed a similar deal with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). The agreement will see the Nato Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) use Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), an air-gapped system built […]
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Google’s €5.5 billion plan to expand its presence in Germany is about more than new buildings and servers. Running from 2026 to 2029, the investment shows how global cloud and AI providers are starting to link technology growth with sustainability, workforce skills, and energy efficiency — priorities now central to how European enterprises plan and […]
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The growing use of AI is driving up cloud storage costs as enterprises struggle to track what data they’re storing, why it’s kept, and how to manage it efficiently. To help address this, Datadog has launched Storage Management, now generally available for Amazon S3 and in preview for Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage. […]
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Google Cloud has added new post-quantum encryption options to its Key Management Service (Cloud KMS). The update is currently in preview and introduces support for post-quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) – a form of encryption built to resist attacks from cryptographically relevant quantum computers. Cloud KMS is a managed service that lets users create, use, […]
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Google is investing another €5 billion in Belgium over the next two years to boost its cloud and AI infrastructure. That effort includes expanding its data centre locations in Saint-Ghislain and creating 300 new full-time jobs. At the same time, it’s inked deals with Eneco, Luminus, and Renner to help develop onshore wind farms and […]
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Google layoffs have hit more than 100 workers in its design teams, marking the latest round of job cuts tied to the company’s shift toward AI and tighter spending. Earlier this week, Google layoffs affected parts of the cloud division, including teams working on user experience research, and platform and service experience. Internal documents seen […]
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