Back in 2012, Google unveiled Spanner — a globe-spanning database technology, the first of its kind, designed to keep the search advertising giant's massive online operations in sync all over the ...

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At its annual Cloud Next conference, Google Cloud today announced the general availability of Cloud Spanner Data Boost. Data Boost is a fully managed serverless service that allows users to analyze ...

Each morning, when Andrew Fikes sat down at his desk inside Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, he turned on the "VC" link to New York. VC is Google shorthand for video conference.

Because of the confluence of the these announcements, from two of the three leading public cloud providers, I thought it would be useful to follow up my Cosmos DB coverage with coverage for Cloud ...

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About a decade ago, a handful of Google's most talented engineers started building a system that seems to defy logic. Called Spanner, it was the first global database, a way of storing information ...