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Slack Introduces Actions, Google Launches New Hangouts Meet, More News

..... At the conference, the company announced it was splitting Hangouts into Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat as well as introducing new enterprise-grade features for Google Drive in a play designed to give it more traction in the enterprise. At the time, Scott Johnston, director of product management for Google Hangouts, explained the goal was to make connecting over video and chat more collaborative. He added that Hangouts Meet makes "joining meetings effortless so that people can be as productive as they are when they’re face-to-face" and described Hangouts Chat as "an intelligent communication app for teams......

Longtime Amazon Web Services customer Netflix said to be cozying up to Google

..... Cloud vendors don’t always make it easy to move workloads between different public clouds, but companies are finding a way to spread their eggs around several baskets with technologies like containers and Kubernetes. In chatting about the release of Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0, Docker Chief Product Office Scott Johnston told me yesterday that around half of Docker’s enterprise customers are running workloads in multiple public clouds. It’s always hard to tell how evenly those customers have split their business across multiple clouds, but if Netflix, a single-vendor public-cloud pioneer, thinks it’s time to embrace several cloud providers, you can bet other companies will follow suit......