Search engine and cloud computing juggernaut Google is hosting its Google Cloud Next ’21 conference this week, and one of the more interesting things that the company unveiled is several layers of ...

KB Investment announced on July 6 that Spanner, a construction automation company in its investment portfolio, was recently ...

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 ...

Google’s Spanner is a single database that runs across hundreds of data centers throughout the world. It’s so smart that it rapidly shifts resources during outages without human intervention and keeps ...

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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 ...