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Review: Document parsing in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
Amazon Textract, Azure Form Recognizer, and Google Document AI can parse your unstructured documents and produce structured information for all kinds of digital transformation use cases.
Google Cloud AppSheet review: No-code with extras
Google’s easy no-code app builder lets you add functionality with spreadsheet formulas and expressions, and even apply machine learning models.
Cloud costs a lot of money
Recent capital expenditure reports show that the hyperscalers’ spending brings new meaning to ‘pay to play.’
Review: Google Cloud Vertex AI irons out ML platform wrinkles
Vertex AI greatly improves the integration of Google Cloud’s AI/ML platform and AutoML services, combining a new unified API with very good modeling capabilities.
Open source is selfish
Companies don't support open source for purely altruistic reasons. They expect a return on their investment.
Review: 6 top videoconferencing services put to the test
We compared Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex, Google Meet, BlueJeans, and GoToMeeting in real-world tests to see which videoconferencing platforms perform best for business users. Here’s how they stack up.
Google boosts V8 JavaScript performance
‘Super-fast’ non-optimizing Sparkplug compiler, which compiles bytecode to machine code, makes its debut in V8 9.1 and Chrome 91.
Google preps new web platform APIs
New APIs for app launching, file handling, page prerendering, graphical transitions, and GPU support will first become available as Chrome origin trial experiments.
Microsoft, Google address browser compatibility issues
The companies have partnered to improve browser compatibility across five CSS features to address developer pain points.
Google Cloud named best performing cloud for 2021
Google Cloud edged AWS and Azure in Cockroach Labs’ 2021 report, which compares the big three cloud providers on performance and cost using online transaction processing benchmarks.
7 predictions for cloud computing in 2021
Public cloud vendors will cement their dominance, but enterprises will look to hybrid clouds, PaaS, open-partner ecosystems, and augmented reality.
Google services, apps hit by global outage
The company’s popular business apps and services, including Gmail, Docs, Workspace, Sheets and Meet were knocked offline for more than a half hour Monday morning.
Review: Google Cloud AI lights up machine learning
Google Cloud AI and Machine Learning Platform is missing some pieces, and much is still in beta, but its scope and quality are second to none.
How to make the most of the Google Cloud free tier
10 tips for stretching Google’s free services to the limit and pinning your cloud meter at zero.
Review: AWS Bottlerocket vs. Google Container-Optimized OS
Container-Optimized OS offers tremendous advantages for container workloads on Google Cloud Platform, but Bottlerocket is a better choice everywhere else
Google Cloud adds security capabilities for sensitive workloads
Confidential VMs, Assured Workloads for Government services are launched
13 ways Google Cloud beats AWS
From Firebase to sustained use discounts, let’s count the reasons Google Cloud might be a better choice
Splunk Cloud comes to Google Cloud
Splunk’s cloud-based platform will provide natively integrated log analysis and metrics for Google Cloud Platform users
Google Cloud Anthos now available for AWS, with Azure to follow
Google Cloud’s software for managing Kubernetes workloads across multiple on-prem and cloud environments reaches out to its biggest rivals
