Tag: GoogleCloud
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Link: Ordering from voice tubes
“Purchases made through devices such as Google Home and Amazon’s Echo are projected to leap from $2 billion to $40 billion by 2022 as technology improves, U.S. consumers become more comfortable and the speakers become nearly as commonplace in homes as a flat-screen TV, according to a new study from OC&C Strategy Consultants.” More: “Shoppers…
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Link: Google takes $1.1bn chomp out of HTC, smacks lips, burps
Google still looking to crack into hardware. Maybe getting a clutch of regular, steady performers instead of startup rock-stars will help: ‘Google has formally completed its $1.1bn (£780m) takeover of a chunk of HTC, under which some 2,000 staff will transfer to work on the chocolate factory’s Pixel phone. ‘In a blog post, Rick Osterloh,…
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Link: You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — Kelsey Hightower
Automate all the DevOps. Original source: You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — Kelsey Hightower
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Link: Google’s AutoML lets you train custom machine learning models without having to code
“The basic idea here, Google says, is to allow virtually anybody to bring their images, upload them (and import their tags or create them in the app) and then have Google’s systems automatically create a customer machine learning model for them. The company says that Disney, for example, has used this system to make the…
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Link: Amazon lost cloud market share to Microsoft in the fourth quarter: KeyBanc
For 4Q2017: “Amazon Web Services had 62 percent market share in the quarter, down from 68 percent a year earlier, KeyBanc’s Brent Bracelin and other analysts wrote in a note on Thursday. Microsoft Azure jumped from 16 percent to 20 percent, and Google’s share increased from 10 percent to 12 percent, they said.” Original source:…
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Link: People love Google’s new feature that matches your selfie to a famous painting
Oh, so that’s what all those pictures are. Original source: People love Google’s new feature that matches your selfie to a famous painting
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Link: Cisco is strengthening its ‘cloud first’ posture
Finally, an explanation of that Cisco/Google partnership: “CloudCenter is key to the hybrid cloud partnership that Cisco and Google recently announced, where CloudCenter will be used to integrate Google Cloud Platform services with on-premises datacenters. The integrated offering includes Cisco’s Hyperflex hyperconverged infrastructure and Nexus 9k networking. Cisco is also leveraging its networking (CSR) and…
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Link: The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students
While I don’t disagree with this kind of ASTOUNDING FINDING, what it usually means that in addition to engineering, it turns out you need these other skills. I sure STEM is necessary, but not sufficient to be a good nerd in corporate America: “among the eight most important qualities of Google’s top employees, STEM expertise…
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Link: Google Cloud Platform services engage corporate IT
Overview of 2017 stuff that enterprises might like. Link to original
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Link: Cloud Computing Trends: 2016 State of the Cloud Survey
A bit broad, but still legit if you scope the audience right. Source: Cloud Computing Trends: 2016 State of the Cloud Survey
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Link: Googles challenge in enterprise cloud
Post Alphabet, where any previous inhibitions about pursuing new hobbies have evaporated, it is even harder to imagine the “capital allocators” choosing to invest in thousands of enterprise sales and support people given alternatives involving life extension and/or space elevators. After all, won’t the robotics division eventually solve any problem that today requires humans? The…
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Want IoT? Here’s How a Major US Utility Collects Power Data from Over 5.5 Million Meters – High Scalability –
Want IoT? Here’s How a Major US Utility Collects Power Data from Over 5.5 Million Meters – High Scalability –
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Google Losing $8B to $9B on Side Projects, Estimates Morgan Stanley
Trying to figure out the various lines of business I. Google. Google Losing $8B to $9B on Side Projects, Estimates Morgan Stanley
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HP slaps dress code on R&D geeks: Bin that T-shirt and put on this tie • The Register
HP slaps dress code on R&D geeks: Bin that T-shirt and put on this tie • The Register
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[Coté Memo #7] Winning in cloud hinges on package software, AMZN 2014Q2 marginalia, DevOps sniffing
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #7. Today we have 22 subscribers, so we’re +1. I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsor 451 Research, is having it’s big cloud conferences this Fall,…
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This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds
Using RedMonk logic: companies tend to keep what they consider their competative advantage closed source; Google keeps their dev toolchain closed source; Google’s ability to more productive in development (the primary point of a dev toolchain) is a core differentiator for Google. QED. More: This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds
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