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Google Shareholders Reject Proposal To Break Up Company

by Donna Goodison

'We believe that Alphabet has grown to a size and complexity that is unmanageable, as evidenced by numerous failures of oversight and management,' said one person on behalf of SumOfUs, which backed a proposal for Alphabet to consider strategic alternatives.

Google Pledges $1B To Help Ease Bay Area Housing Crisis

by Donna Goodison

‘As we work to build a more helpful Google, we know our responsibility to help starts at home,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai says. ‘For us, that means being a good neighbor in the place where it all began over 20 years ago: the San Francisco Bay Area.’

Google Calendar Outage Another Blow To G Suite Users

by Dylan Martin

'The last two weeks or so haven't been great as far as service reliability for G Suite,' one G Suite partner says of the Google Calendar outage and other recent service disruptions, which he called 'uncharacteristically disruptive.'

NetApp Expands Hybrid Cloud Tech With Consumption-based IT, New HCI Cloud Ties

by Joseph F. Kovar

NetApp is providing new cloud data services for its HCI hyper-converged infrastructure offering and adding consumption-based pricing in a move to make it easier to use as a jumping-off point for bringing hybrid cloud to customers' on-premises data centers.

‘I’m Getting Everything In My Mailbox’: Gmail Spam Filters Briefly Fail

by Joseph Tsidulko

For an hour, Gmail users on Twitter reported inboxes inundated with unwanted promotional emails.

10 Cool Platforms For Automating Machine Learning

by Joseph Tsidulko

Here are 10 machine learning platforms and services that solution providers can take advantage of in the enterprise market.

$600M Google Data Center Expansion Planned For Oklahoma

by Donna Goodison

'This site is an important part of our global network of data centers,' Google CEO Sundar Pichai said. 'This network is what powers your searches, your email, all of the photos you store and treasure, and the maps that help you find the fastest way home.'

Andy Jassy: No On AWS Spinoff; Yes On Facial Recognition Regs

by Donna Goodison

‘I can’t speak to what the government is thinking or will do, but at the end of the day, we operate in the United States, and we will follow the United States laws,’ Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy said regarding a potential federal antitrust probe requiring a spinoff of AWS. ‘If we were forced to do it, I guess we would have to do it. We don’t spend a lot of time talking about it.’

New Cloudflare Channel Chief Unveils ‘Partner Program 2.0’

by Donna Goodison

‘We want to be known as a program that is frictionless,’ says Matthew Harrell, Cloudflare’s new global head of channel sales and partners. ‘We want to be known as one that’s very easy to do business with and can help partners build compelling value propositions and businesses.’

5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

by Rick Whiting

For the week ending June 7, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.

10 Cool Tech Gifts For Dad On Father's Day 2019

by Kyle Alspach

Check out our list of top gadgets for getting your dad this year, including the new Amazon Kindle, a portable wireless document scanner and a great-sounding smart speaker.

Sweeping Data Center Tax Exemptions Passed In Illinois

by Mark Haranas

Data center owners and operators will be exempt from paying sales taxes on the equipment inside the facility such as storage, servers and liquid cooling solutions.

Google-Looker Deal Aligns With Multi-Cloud And Enterprise Push, Partners Say

by Donna Goodison

'This is a power move – acquiring new and expanding existing customers who were already using advanced analytical and visualization techniques provided by platforms such as Looker on top of Google Cloud data products, e.g., BigQuery,' says Tom Galizia, Deloitte Consulting's lead commercial partner for its Alphabet/Google alliance.d.

5 Things To Know About Google’s Acquisition Of Looker Data Sciences

by Donna Goodison

‘Looker extends our business analytics offering with two important capabilities --first, the ability to define business metrics once in a consistent way across data sources,’ Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says. ‘Second, Looker also provides users with a powerful analytics platform that delivers applications for business intelligence and use-case specific solutions such as Sales Analytics, as well as a flexible, embedded analytics product to collaborate on business decisions.’

Google To Acquire Looker In $2.6B Blockbuster Business Analytics Deal

by Rick Whiting

Google will add Looker's business intelligence platform, including its sales and marketing analytical applications, to the Google Cloud Platform lineup.