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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......

Google Releases Hangouts Chat as Enterprise Collaboration Platform

..... Chat is integrated with many of G Suite's productivity and collaboration apps such as Docs, Sheets, Drive and Hangouts Meet. So members collaborating on a project can upload items directly from Drive and bring them into Google Docs, or Sheets or Slides said Scott Johnston, director of product management at Google in a Feb. 28 blog . Similarly, the integration with Hangouts Meet makes it easier to set up online meetings while the search capability allows teams to look up past conversations, find shared files and see who else they might collaborating with in a virtual room, he said. .....