Google’s first attempt at MySQL as a service, Cloud SQL, launched in 2011, was somewhat of a disappointment from the standpoint of performance and scalability. Cloud SQL Second Generation, which was ...

Google today announced it has added support for native MySQL connections to its Cloud SQL service. As such, the fully managed MySQL service hosted on Google Cloud Platform is getting a significant ...

After two-and-a-half years in preview, Google’s Cloud SQL, the company’s fully managed MySQL database service, has now hit general availability. As with most Google services that hit this milestone, ...

Just one day before the start of Amazon’s AWS-focused re: Invent conference in Las Vegas, Google just announced a number of major updates to its set of Cloud Platform products. With this update, ...

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Google Cloud today announced key updates to some of its most important database platforms, including a free trial for anyone looking to test Cloud Spanner, plus a new service for BigQuery called ...

Google Cloud SQL, which adds a MySQL database Web service to Google's cloud-based App Engine development stack, is now available in a free preview version, Google announced this week. In a Google Code ...

Google LLC’s cloud business today introduced a new series of cloud instances powered by a custom chip known as an infrastructure processing unit. The new instance series, dubbed the C3 series, is ...

A step-by-step guide to using SAN-less failover clustering software to support SQL Server’s Always On Failover Clustering in the public cloud The thing about clouds is that they can change shape even ...