Google will be setting up a cloud data center in Mumbai which will be operational by 2017. The data center dubbed as “Google Cloud Regions” will also be set up in other location including Singapore, Sydney, Northern Virginia, São Paulo, London, Finland and Frankfurt. The company also plans to set up ‘Cloud Regions’ in more geographical locations next year. The data center expansion is aimed at growing its cloud business—Google Cloud Platform (GCP)—to support more software environments, and applications, the company said. Google is also updating its cloud infrastructure to not only power its customer’s solution, but also Gmail and Android. It claims that its cloud solutions for enterprise and individuals now “serves over 1 billion end-users through its customers’ products and services.” New features in Google Cloud Platform With its cloud business expansion, Google will offer more features under Kubernetes—an open source system offered under Google Container Engine (GKE) for automating deployment and managing cloud-hosted applications. The company’s fully managed data centers will be upgraded with new cloud-based data mining/analytics features like Google BigQuery support, and better machine learning features using Google Cloud Dataflow. More here. In addition, the company has announced launch of a new team named ‘Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE)’, consisting of Google engineers. These engineers will directly work with customers who use the Google Cloud Platform. Interestingly, the new team has been already deployed and being tested with Niantic as they launched Pokemon Go. Google will offer more updates on this in the future. Apigee acquisition Google appears bullish with…
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