Invest early, save later: Why shifting security left helps your bottom line
Shifting left on security with Google Cloud infrastructure The concept of “shifting left” has been widely promoted in the software development lifecycle. The concept is that introducing security earlier, or leftwards, in the development process will lead to fewer software-related security defects later, or rightwards,…
Automate annotations for Vertex AI text datasets with Cloud Vision API and BigQuery
One of the main challenges machine learning practitioners face is the availability of annotated training datasets or a lack thereof. In many cases, practitioners may have access to existing datasets that have been manually extracted, which they can use to accelerate their model training. Through…
I/O Adventure Google Cloud architecture
Since 2020, many conferences have moved online – either fully or partially – as organizers, presenters, and attendees all reimagine how we approach our life and our work. Google I/O Adventure is a virtual conference experience that brings some of the best parts of real-world…
How Kitabisa re-structured its fundraising platform to drive “kindness at scale” on Google Cloud
The name Kitabisa means “we can” in Bahasa Indonesia, the official language of Indonesia, and captures their aspirational ethos as Indonesia’s most popular fundraising platform. Since 2013, Kitabisa has been collecting donations in times of crisis and natural disasters to help millions in need. Pursuing…
Measuring climate and land changes with AI
Imagine what could be possible if we had a dataset that could automatically and in near real-time show you how the Earth has changed week over week, month over month, year over year. We would get a birds eye view of recent events like floods, fires, snowstorms from days ago and be…
Cloud Monitoring metrics, now in Managed Service for Prometheus
According to a recent CNCF survey, 86% of the cloud native community reports that they use Prometheus for observability. As Prometheus becomes more of a standard, an increasing number of developers are becoming fluent in PromQL, Prometheus’ built-in query language. While it is a powerful, flexible, and…
How SLSA and SBOM can help healthcare’s cybersecurity resiliency
Taking prescription medication at the direction of anyone other than a trained physician is very risky—and the same could be said for selecting technology used to run a hospital, to manage a drug manufacturing facility and, increasingly, to treat a patient for a medical condition….
Automate identity document processing with Document AI
How many times have you filled out forms requesting personal information? It’s probably too many times to count. When online and signed in, you can save a lot of time thanks to your browser’s autofill feature. In other cases, you often have to provide the…
Jumpstart your location experiences with new integrations from across Google
Google are always looking for new ways to help you more easily discover, explore and deploy recommended APIs for your mapping needs. Starting today, Google Maps Platform developers at small businesses and large companies alike have access to new features and integrations with other Google products to…
Forrester names Google Cloud a leader in Document Analytics Platforms
At Google, the mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. For the Document AI solutions suite, as well as the Vertex AI platform atop which Document AI is built, achieving this goal involves building capabilities to extract structured…
Announcing general availability of Cloud Armor’s new edge security policies, and support for proxy load balancers
Whether workloads are deployed in public clouds, on-premises, or other infrastructure providers, DDoS and Layer 7 attacks target all web applications, APIs, and services. That’s why Google Cloud continues to expand their scope of DDoS and web application firewall (WAF) protection for web applications, APIs,…
Migrate databases to Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE)
The following blog covers some common processes and tools used to migrate databases from on-premises (Physical or VMware) to Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE). Many customers choose this lift-and-shift migration approach as a first step to quickly migrate databases into Google Cloud before beginning database…