Durability is a critical feature of any data storage service. We often receive questions about how to design workloads for durability and what specific durability assumptions a workload can make about Persistent Disk (PD), Google Cloud’s reliable, high-performance block storage for virtual machine instances. To help, we recently published details about how PD is designed […]

So far in this series, we’ve been focused on generic concepts and console-based workflows. However, when you’re working with huge amounts of data or surfacing information to lots of different stakeholders, leveraging BigQuery programmatically becomes essential. In today’s post, we’re going to take a tour of BigQuery’s API landscape – so you can better understand […]

There is no doubt that extensions are extremely important to getting work done in Chrome. Extensions offer a wide range of extra functionality so that you can perform tasks more easily and your business can get more out of the web. With organizations turning to a distributed workforce – whether that’s remote, a hybrid approach […]

Organizations have been moving their on-premises data and applications to the cloud for the past several years, driven by reasons as varied as application modernization and content delivery to archival. In particular, we have seen migration momentum pick up in sectors like media and entertainment, where customers are rethinking how they monetize and store their […]

Enterprise application teams need to manage more than just containers in their software supply chain. That’s why we created Artifact Registry, a fully-managed service with support for both container images and non-container artifacts. Artifact Registry improves and extends upon the existing capabilities of Container Registry, such as customer-managed encryption keys, VPC-SC support, Pub/Sub notifications, and […]

If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it is that speed and intelligence are of the essence when it comes to making business decisions. Organizations must find ways of keeping ahead of competitors and disruptions by continually leveraging data to make smart decisions. The problem? Data may be everywhere, but it’s not always available […]

Data growth is a massive challenge for all organizations, but just as important is ensuring access to the data doesn’t become a bottleneck. For high performance computing (HPC) and ML/AI applications, reducing time to insight is key, and so finding the right storage solution that can support low latency, high bandwidth data access at an […]