At Google Cloud, we strive to offer a great customer experience for enterprises by building a robust and supported platform for running all Linux-based workloads. This mission is why we were one of the first cloud providers to offer purpose-built Rocky Linux images when Rocky Linux debuted last year as a replacement option for CentOS. […]

Today, we’re announcing the Database Migration Program, a new and stress-free approach to migrating existing open source and proprietary databases, whether on-premises or in the cloud, to Google Cloud’s industry-leading, managed database services. With the Database Migration Program, you benefit from assessments, tooling, best practices, and resources from our network of specialized database technology partners. […]

The volume of valuable data that organizations have to manage and analyze is growing at an incredible rate. This data is increasingly distributed across many locations, including  data warehouses, data lakes, and NoSQL stores. As an organization’s data gets more complex and proliferates across disparate data environments, silos emerge, creating increased risk and cost, especially […]

The Canadian government’s security guidance for cloud environments outlines a standardized set of security controls to protect data and workloads in the cloud. The security guidance, known as the Security Control Profile for Cloud-based GC Services, also outlines security controls and profiles from a different publication, the IT Security Risk Management: A Lifecycle Approach (ITSG-33).  […]

There’s a new subsea cable in town: Topaz, the first-ever fiber cable to connect Canada and Asia.  Once complete, Topaz will run from Vancouver to the small town of Port Alberni on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, and across the Pacific Ocean to the prefectures of Mie and Ibaraki in Japan. […]

Editor’s note:  Frustrated that its existing on-premises infrastructure was limiting the business intelligence it could derive from its data, Vodafone decided to switch to a more accessible, scalable cloud solution. Here, Osman Peermamode, Head of Data and Analytics at Vodafone, explains how the migration to Google Cloud is cost-effectively transforming its service offering to optimize […]

By 2023, 60% of organizations will use three or more analytics solutions to build business applications to connect insights to actions. These multiple implementations add complexity and challenges with multiple data models, disparate toolsets, and lack of integration and governance. To provide organizations the flexibility, interoperability and agility to accelerate data-driven transformations, we have significantly […]

Today, data  exists in many formats, is provided in real-time streams, and stretches across many different data centers and clouds, all over the world. From analytics, to data engineering, to AI/ML, to data-driven applications, the ways in which we leverage and share data continues to expand. Data has moved beyond the analyst and now impacts […]