Assembling and managing distributed applications using Google Cloud Networking solutions
In the cloud era, modern applications are assembled from services running across different environments. The benefit of this approach is that organizations can choose which services to use that best serve their needs when building applications. But assembling applications from disparate component services also brings…
Analyze Looker-modeled data through Google Sheets
At Google Cloud, they believe that democratizing access to fresh, consistent, enterprise data is the key to driving digital and cultural transformation. This means empowering everyone to leverage rich, governed data sets and harness the power of data — without learning new tools or building…
Introducing GKE cost estimator, built right into the Google Cloud console
Have you ever wondered what it will cost to run a particular Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster? How various configurations and feature choices will affect your costs? What the potential of autoscaling might be on your bill? If you’ve ever tried to estimate this yourself, you…
Announcing PSP’s cryptographic hardware offload at scale is now open source
Almost a decade ago, Google started encrypting traffic between our data centers to help protect user privacy. Since then, they gradually rolled out changes to encrypt almost all data in transit. Their approach is described in our Encryption in Transit whitepaper. While this effort provided invaluable…
GKE workload rightsizing — from recommendations to action
Do you know how to rightsize a workload in Kubernetes? If you’re not 100% sure, Google have some great news for you! Today, Google are launching a fully embedded, out-of-the-box experience to help you with that complex task. When you run your applications on Google…
Google Cloud VMware Engine: Optimize application licensing costs with custom core counts
Customers are increasingly migrating their workloads to the cloud, including applications that are licensed and charged based on the number of physical CPU cores on the underlying node or in the cluster. To help customers manage and optimize their application licensing costs on Google Cloud VMware…
Twitter takes data activation to new heights with Google Cloud
Twitter is an open, social platform that’s home to a world of diverse people, perspectives, ideas, and information. They aim to foster free and global conversations that allow people to consume, create, distribute, and discover information about the topics they care about the most. Founded…
BrabantZorg transforms patient care in months with Google Workspace and Adapta
BrabantZorg, in southeastern Netherlands, provides healthcare services to seniors and patients recovering from surgery, with about 6,000 employees, 3,500 volunteers, and around 10,000 clients and patients across senior living homes and short-term care facilities. When it came time to reassess their infrastructure and collaboration tools…
A focus on network connectivity use cases in the cloud
Enterprises today have a very broad mix of networks — from SD-WANs, dedicated WANs such as MPLS, cloud interconnects, to VPNs. At the same time, they’re moving those WANs to the cloud to take advantage of faster turn-up, lower cost, and increased feature velocity. As…
Voice trading in the cloud — digital transformation of private wires
With the experience of working with financial services customers, Google recently partnered with a large interdealer broker to co-innovate on the modernization of their core voice trading infrastructure. Their motivation was simple: they wanted traders to be able to work remotely, make it easy to…
Introducing AlloyDB for PostgreSQL: Free yourself from expensive, legacy databases
Enterprises are struggling to free themselves from legacy database systems, and need an alternative option to modernize their applications. Today at Google I/O, they’re thrilled to announce the preview of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service that provides a powerful option for modernizing…
Introducing new AI to help people thrive in hybrid work
Google have been using machine learning in Google Workspace for some years to help make people’s work day more productive and impactful. Today, they’re announcing new features in Google Workspace that tap into their industry-leading AI to help people thrive and get more done in a hybrid work world….