For companies that provide services over the Internet, it is important to deal with system failures. Google, which provides various services such as search engine, cloud, email, advertising, etc., ...

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As a new generation of corporations navigate the efficiencies of cloud computing, they are faced with a new challenge: running a business in a brand-new environment without the benefit of tried and ...

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Back in the early ’00s, when Google was beginning to expand its portfolio of services beyond search, it encountered a combination of challenges. Some of these emerged from familiar, classic ...

Gawker (along with several other sites) revealed Tuesday that a Google Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) named David Barksdale had accessed at least 4 Google accounts belonging to teenagers in his ...

Analysis of the latest trends in cloud and datacentre technology. To coincide with the first day of the Google Cloud Next 2018 conference (taking place from 24-26 July) in San Francisco, John ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. While some may look at companies entrenched in legacy software as having to play a game of ...