When critical services fail, businesses risk losing revenue, productivity, and trust. That’s why Google Cloud customers running SAP applications choose to deploy high availability (HA) systems on Google Cloud. In these deployments Linux operating system clustering provides application and guest awareness for the application state and automates recovery actions in case of failure — including […]

Today it is even easier to capture logs in your Java applications. Developers can get more data with their application logs using a new version of the Cloud Logging client library for Java. The library populates the current executing context implicitly with every ingested log entry. Read this if you want to learn how to […]

For decades large enterprises have developed and operated their most critical workloads on the mainframe due to the scalability, security and performance demands of these business systems. But finding the talent to maintain and operate these workloads is increasingly more difficult, the business demand for faster innovation,  the downward pressure on costs and the need […]

Presently, every government agency has to take a hard look at their data capabilities and decide whether their current infrastructure supports their workflow. For many, it doesn’t. Most data systems are developed with a strict set of parameters in mind before implementation, which can limit flexibility and long-term use. Particularly during a crisis, flexible “living […]