In what it says is a bid to support its growing customer base in Japan, Google Cloud has announced the launch of a new region in Osaka.

Being a Premier Partner opens up access to additional resources and expertise at a global scale, including new Google hardware, products and services.

AWS has made the biggest gains up US$2.3 billion, while Google keeps it spot as fastest growing at 81% year on year.

“Using AI we have finally cracked the intractable invoice processing issues that many businesses face."

Avaya is one of the Google Cloud partners participating in an early access program aimed at augmenting next-generation contact centres.

The solutions aim to capture the growing trend of cloud in retail, offering solutions for eCommerce, inventory management, and more.

"With this expanded partnership, Qubole is providing a powerful analytics service for Apache Spark and Hadoop on Google Cloud."

Cohesity announced the release of a new SaaS solution that delivers enterprise-grade backup and recovery for applications running on Google Cloud.

The Cloud Wars continue as Alibaba and Google stake claims in a market that will see spending hit US$143 billion next year, driven by the channel.

After being introduced as part of Google’s G Suite back in 2004, Gmail has now progressed to become one of the most dominant email platforms on the market.

To get a better idea of the sheer audacity behind Google’s latest move, we spoke to Unitas Global chief technical officer Grant Kirkwood.

This includes embedding Google’s machine learning within conversation services for the contact centre, enabling integration of AI capabilities.

A Google employee has now calculated pi to a whopping 31,415,926,535,897 digits.

Google kicked off the new region launch with a dedicated event in Zurich which brought in more than 800 business representatives and developers.

Offerings enable intelligent decision-making with edge computing and real-time connectivity to Google Cloud.

Rackware's CEO believes Google is going to be doing more acquisitions and buying an enterprise salesforce to grow more aggressively.

Unitas Global's Francesco Paola says the ongoing cloud war is good for everyone involved.

Google is currently behind AWS and Microsoft in the cloud battle, and it would seem this play is an attempt to claw some ground back.

According to Canalys, spending grew by 46% in 4Q18 and AWS maintained dominance with nearly a third of the total.

While the Big Four providers will have the lion’s share, lock-in will be avoided through multi-cloud and cloud-native approaches.

"The decision to move to Google Cloud further extends our commitment to reliability and scalability."

Silver Peak is the only SD-WAN vendor to partner with all four leading public cloud providers – Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle.

Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks have extended their partnership to include more security features and customer support for all major public clouds.

"The Asia Pacific market is important for Google Cloud, and we are making long-term investments to support our growing business there.”