Firestore Multiple Databases is now generally available
Today, Google are announcing the general availability of Firestore Multiple Databases, which lets you manage multiple Firestore databases within a single Google Cloud project, enhancing data separation, security, resource management, and cost tracking. With this milestone, multiple databases are now fully supported in the Google…
Scaling Character.AI: How AlloyDB for PostgreSQL and Spanner met their growing needs
Do you ever wish you could sit down and talk physics with Albert Einstein or playwriting with William Shakespeare? With Character.AI, the possibilities are as infinite as the imagination. At Character.AI, Google are on a mission to deliver lifelike interactions using artificial intelligence (AI). Our service…
Code samples to get started building generative AI apps on Google Cloud
Last year, Google surveyed over 100 senior executives from leading companies on the top generative AI use cases for 2024. They told us their top use cases delivered near-term benefits for their business and had a lower time to and risk to implement. Specifically, they…
Google Cloud databases stand ready to power your gen AI apps with new capabilities
Google Cloud help our customers unify their data and connect it with groundbreaking AI to build transformative experiences. Data, whether it’s structured data in an operational database or unstructured data in a data lake, helps make AI more effective. For businesses to truly take advantage…
Introducing Security Command Center protection for Vertex AI
As developers use Vertex AI, Google Cloud’s end-to-end AI platform that includes intuitive tooling to build the next generation of AI applications, IT teams are called on to bolster cloud infrastructure security. Aligned with the Secure AI Framework (SAIF) we introduced last year, Google want to share approaches…
Unleash your Google Cloud data with ThoughtSpot, Looker, and BigQuery
Today’s businesses have to deliver innovation and operational improvements at high velocity — finding new ways to delight customers while paying close attention to efficient revenue growth. This goal translates to leveraging data and analytics in every part of their value chain, be it within…
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,…
Looker now available from Google Cloud console
Looker helps make it easy to get insights from business data and to build data-driven applications with unified metrics for ease of collaboration. Today, Google are bringing Looker to the Google Cloud console, making it simpler than ever to acquire, deploy, and manage Looker in…
Tips on building a network security policy in Google Cloud
Changing the network security perspective In a data center, network security engineers tend to spend the bulk of their time managing individual devices: creating strong passwords and hardening configurations for networking devices and creating firewall rules for each endpoint. Since nothing is physical in the…
Detecting data deletion and threats to backups with Security Command Center
The threat landscape is rapidly evolving, with data destruction attacks increasingly pervasive and more sophisticated than in years past. Today’s threat actors are constantly identifying new pathways to target data and to limit organizations’ ability to recover from attacks. Backups have long been the solution…
Google Cloud’s approach to trust and transparency in AI
Generative artificial intelligence has emerged as a disruptive technology that presents tremendous potential to revolutionize and transform the way Google do business. It has the power to unlock opportunities for communities, companies, and countries around the world, bringing meaningful change that could improve billions of…
Introducing automated credential discovery to help secure your cloud environment
Storing credentials in plaintext can make your organization less secure. Risks include exposing your credentials to unauthorized users, including threat actors. Improperly secured credentials can also be collected, propagated, and further exposed in various systems, such as logs or inventory systems. Google recommend organizations protect…