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The latest Google Cloud coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Google Cloud eliminates UX design jobs to fuel AI infrastructure push
Google's latest workforce restructuring within its Cloud division has targeted user experience and design roles, signaling a significant strategic shift toward artificial intelligence and...
Google Cloud Gains Momentum as AI Startups Lovable and Windsurf Choose Gemini and Vertex AI
Google Cloud is making significant strides in the competitive AI infrastructure market, with recent announcements that fast-growing AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf have integrated Google...
Defence Ran ‘Mission-Critical’ Apps on U.S. Cloud, Shelling Out $1.3B Since 2021
Ottawa has spent almost $1.3 billion on cloud services from American tech giants since 2021, newly tabled government documents reveal. The Department of National Defence (DND) acknowledged that some...
Microsoft Cloud Revenue Hits $46.7B in a Single Quarter as AI Demand Soars
Microsoft’s cloud business hauled in $46.7 billion in the most recent quarter, a record that equates to roughly half a billion dollars in revenue every single day, the company disclosed as part of...
Oracle's $144B Cloud Gamble: How the AI-First OCI Plan Affects Your Windows Workloads
On September 10, Oracle stunned Wall Street with a fiscal 2026 revenue forecast that projects its cloud infrastructure business will reach $144 billion by fiscal 2030—placing it squarely in...
Oracle's Exadata X11M and AI Cloud Push Are Forcing a Rethinking of the Enterprise Stack
Oracle has quietly executed a pivot from database vendor to integrated cloud and AI infrastructure player, and the implications for enterprise buyers weighing their options against Amazon Web...
ProsperOps Brings Autonomous Discount Management to Azure Marketplace, Automating Reservation and Savings Plan Optimization
Azure customers can now automate the notoriously complex task of managing reservations and savings plans directly through the Azure Marketplace. ProsperOps, a FinOps automation specialist, has made...
Synchronized Workload and Rate Automation: ProsperOps' CloudX Win Signals FinOps Maturation
ProsperOps captured the 2025 CloudX Award in the Cloud Management category, validating a strategic pivot that sets the company apart in the crowded FinOps landscape. The award, presented at CloudX...
OpenAI Breaks Azure Exclusivity: Inside the Multicloud ROFR Deal Reshaping AI Infrastructure
The exclusive compute contract that made Microsoft Azure the sole cloud home for OpenAI’s cutting-edge models has given way to a more flexible arrangement. Under a new non-binding memorandum of...
CloudX Award Puts ProsperOps in FinOps Spotlight, But Independent Verification Lags Behind Vendor Claims
ProsperOps walked away from CloudX 2025 with a Cloud Management award, a trophy that the autonomous FinOps vendor immediately leveraged to underscore its multi-cloud discount engine and a brand-new...
Nutanix Named Leader in 2025 Gartner MQ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure—But What Does It Mean for IT Teams?
Nutanix has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, marking its third appearance and second consecutive leadership position in the report. The...
Google Sets Multicloud Standard with Zero Egress Fees in EU and UK, Pressuring Microsoft and AWS
Google Cloud has eliminated data transfer fees for organizations running workloads across multiple cloud providers in the European Union and the United Kingdom, a move that goes well beyond the EU...