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Google Inc. today issued a big challenge to its rivals in cloud computing by opening up access to what has been described as the world’s largest database. The company is launching Cloud Spanner Beta, ...

With the aid of atomic clocks, GPS receivers and some of the most esteemed figures in computer science, Google has crafted a planet-spanning distributed database. Google published information about ...

About 10 years have passed since Google's stalwart engineers started creating a system that, in all reality, defeats the conventional logic of database services. It's now named Cloud Spanner, and it's ...

Just three months after introducing its massive Cloud Spanner database in beta test, Google Inc. today made it generally available across the world. The cloud version represents a potent challenge to ...

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 ...

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 ...