New offerings for government organizations to get started with AI
Cloud-native features are helping public sector teams innovate faster than ever. Ideas discussed in a morning meeting can be a working proof of concept later that day. Managed services can remove administrative burden and reduce the steps needed to design and provision cloud infrastructure. Security…
The Future of Data: Unified, flexible, and accessible
As the volume of data that people and businesses produce continues to grow exponentially, it goes without saying that data-driven approaches are critical for tech companies and startups across all industries. But our conversations with customers, as well as numerous industry commentaries, reiterate that managing data and extracting…
How Confidential Space and multi-party computation can help manage digital assets more securely and efficiently
Managing digital asset transactions and their often-competing requirements to be secure and timely can be daunting. Human errors can lead to millions in assets being instantly lost, especially when managing your own encryption keys. This is where multi-party computation (MPC) can help reduce risk stemming from single…
8 ways to cut costs and drive profits using data and AI
Google are increasingly seeing one question arise in virtually every customer conversation: How can the organization save costs and drive new revenue streams? Everyone would love a crystal ball, but what you may not realize is that you already have one. It’s in your data….
Latest database innovations for transforming the customer experience
We’re all accustomed to Google magic in our daily lives. When we need information like the time a store closes, the best route to a destination, help cooking a favorite recipe — we just ask Google. Google is known for providing useful information everywhere, wherever…
Connected Sheets for Looker is now generally available
Modern organizations make decisions and act based on trusted data. But to fully empower their users, it isn’t enough to simply make trusted data available. Organizations need to enable users to access that data through tools they use every day, like the ubiquitous spreadsheet. Today,…
Building streaming data pipelines on Google Cloud
Many customers build streaming data pipelines to ingest, process and then store data for later analysis. Google will focus on a common pipeline design shown below. It consists of three steps: Data sources send messages with data to a Pub/Sub topic. Pub/Sub buffers the messages…
Google Cloud Deploy adds Cloud Run and deployment verification support
Google Cloud customers want to be able to easily deploy their applications to the full breadth of platforms that Google offer, including Cloud Run. And when they push out code to production, they want confirmation that the deployment was successful. Today, Google are pleased to announce…
Why you should migrate to network firewall policies from VPC Firewall rules
In the fall of 2022, Google announced new policy constructs for Google Cloud Firewall, a scalable, cloud-first firewall service that helps secure traffic flow to and from workloads in Google Cloud, and whose distributed architecture enables simplified, granular control including micro-segmentation. Whereas legacy VPC firewall rules included network…
How innovative startups are growing their businesses on Google’s open data cloud
Data is one of the single most valuable assets for organizations today. It can empower businesses to do incredible things like create better views of health for hospitals, enable people to share timely insights with their colleagues, and — increasingly — be a foundational building block for startups…
How to migrate Cloud Storage data from multi-region to regional
There are many considerations to take into account when choosing the location type of your Cloud Storage bucket. However, as business needs change, you may find that regional storage offers lower cost and/or better performance than multi-region or dual-region storage. By design, once your data is already…
Better together: Looker connector for Looker Studio now generally available
Today’s leading organizations want to ensure their business users get fast access to data with real-time governed metrics, so they can make better business decisions. Last April, Google announced Google unified BI experience, bringing together both self-serve and governed BI. Now, Google are making our Looker connector…