How a robotics startup switched clouds and reduced its Kubernetes ops costs with GKE Autopilot
Don’t look now, but Brain Corp operates over 20,000 of its robots in factories, supermarkets, schools and warehouses, taking on time-consuming assignments like cleaning floors, taking inventory, restocking shelves, etc. And BrainOS®, the AI software platform that powers these autonomous mobile robots, doesn’t just run in the…
How Google Cloud monitors its Quality Management System
As a provider of software and services for global enterprises, Google Cloud understands that the quality and security of products is instrumental in maintaining trust among our customers. Google are committed to providing products and services that help the customers meet their quality management objectives,…
Understanding Gmail’s spam filters
Every day, Gmail’s filtering capabilities and advanced security protections help billions of people stay safe and get things done more efficiently. Google have built a strong foundation, and over time, they’ve continued to improve their systems—blocking more than 99.9 percent of spam, phishing, and malware from ever…
Eliminate hotspots in Cloud Bigtable
Google have recently improved Cloud Bigtable’s observability by allowing customers to monitor and observe hot tablets. They can now provide customers access to real-time hot tablets data through the Cloud Bigtable Admin API and gcloud command-line tool. Through this post, Google will present how hot…
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…