The way consumers make their everyday decisions is evolving, as digital ways of working, shopping and communicating have become the new normal. So now it’s more important than ever for companies in the retail sector to prioritise an insights-driven technology strategy and understand what’s truly important for their customers.   Through its partnerships with some of […]

In recent years, cloud has become an important driver for innovation, enhancing security and operational resilience, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only accelerated the trend. But cloud adoption has been slower in regulated sectors including government agencies and financial institutions, due to the complexity of their legacy systems, cultural perceptions, and certain compliance challenges. In […]

Editor’s note: When ad tech provider OpenX was migrating to Google Cloud, they found a scalable, dependable and cost-effective solution in Bigtable and Memorystore for Memcached. Here’s how—and why—they made the move. Running one of the industry’s largest independent ad exchanges, OpenX developed an integrated platform that combines ad server data and a real-time bidding […]

Today we’re happy to announce that you can now specify request priorities for some Cloud Spanner APIs. By assigning a HIGH, MEDIUM, or LOW priority to a specific request, you can now convey the relative importance of workloads, to better align resource usage with performance objectives. Internally, Cloud Spanner uses priorities to differentiate which workloads […]

TL;DR – Rather than wait for budget alert emails, you can use programmatic budget notifications to send budget updates to your favorite comms channels, like Slack (as well as anything else you can code). Even more options for visibility with Budgets fits well into the inform phase of the FinOps lifecycle The last post introduced […]