The Google Cloud offers at least five different options for keeping your data safe, and then you can always implement your own data storage model using its raw persistent disks.

Using Cloud Datalab, developers can explore, transform, visualize and process data that sits in Google BigQuery, Compute Engine and Cloud Storage. To do so, they can use Python, SQL and JavaScript ...

For other services, developers must use the gcloud command line tool inside Google Cloud SDK Shell. Microsoft last month released a version of PowerShell for Linux and put it on GitHub.