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Google's latest US$13 billion investment in its US data centres marks a strategic move to gain ground in the competitive cloud market, says Francesco Paola.

CSP is a platform that aims to simplify building, running, and managing services both on-premise and in the cloud.

Equinix reports a surge in NSP adoption of ECX Fabric, driven by the demand for on-demand, private multicloud connectivity from providers like AWS and Azure.

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.

According to IDC, 92% of organisations have adopted a cloud environment with 64% adopting a multi-cloud approach.

Canalys analysts say the huge growth in cloud services will be of benefit to channel partners with a number of incentives.

Last year saw almost manic growth in revenue for cloud providers as businesses continue to seek the benefits the services can provide.

Opening a second data centre in Indonesia, a relatively small but growing IT economy, shows Alibaba is thinking strategically about its place in APAC.

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

BigCommerce has migrated its hosting infrastructure to Google Cloud, offering faster page load times and improved customer experience for its 60,000 merchants.

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

The company intends to use the funds from new investor Bain Capital Ventures will go toward future innovation and expansion.

While many companies had previously been afraid of making the move, new advances in cloud security have reduced the number of successful cyber attacks.

Amazon is rumoured to be buying Israeli cloud computing startup CloudEndure for USD $200 million, sparking intrigue in the tech community.

The new MLPerf benchmark suite measures a wide range of deep learning workloads, aiming to serve as the industry's first objective AI benchmark suite.

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

Netskope has found that approximately 1000 applications are adopted by employees without the knowledge of IT staff, presenting a challenge for security teams.

Organisations today need to maintain an identity platform that enables both friction-free and highly-secure authentication.

NeuVector enhances Kubernetes security with new features that prevent vulnerabilities from reaching production, ensuring safer container orchestration.