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GCP – Inside Chess.com’s smart move to Google Cloud
Editors note: In early 2020, Chess.com was experiencing steady growth and had projected that it would hit around 4 million daily active users in 10 years. Then the pandemic hit, and alongside the release of the Netflix smash hit, The Queen’s Gambit, they reached this active user number in six months. In this post, Saad […]
GCP – How to put your company on a path to successful cloud migration
Migrating your company’s applications to the cloud has many benefits, including improved customer satisfaction, reduction of technical debt, and the ability to lay the foundations of operational excellence. But there are also many challenges. Organizations often stop short because they don’t know how to get started, lacking prescriptive guidance and partnership from their cloud provider. […]
GCP – Make informed decisions with Google Trends data
A few weeks ago, we launched a new dataset into Google Cloud’s public dataset program: Google Trends. If you’re not familiar with our datasets program, we host a variety of datasets in BigQuery and Cloud Storage for you to access and integrate into your analytics. Google pays for the storage of these datasets and provides […]
AWS – AWS announces a new AWS Training Partner program
The new AWS Training Partner (ATP) program enables AWS customers to work with a single, trusted Partner who can offer, deliver, and/or resell official AWS-authored training. All AWS Training Partners are selected based on their quality and expertise in providing training. They must continually meet or exceed rigorous criteria to maintain their status in the […]
GCP – The Ops Agent is now GA and it includes OpenTelemetry
Running and troubleshooting production services requires deep visibility into your applications and infrastructure. While basic logs and metrics are available out of the box with Google Cloud Compute Engine (GCE), capturing advanced data used to require the installation of both a metrics agent and a logging agent. Today, we’re happy to announce the General Availability […]
GCP – Faster Cloud Storage transfers using the gcloud command-line
It’s surprising just how many business problems boil down to how quickly you can fill a bucket— particularly when that bucket is in Cloud Storage and you’re trying to fill it with data from a Compute Engine instance. While there are products like Storage Transfer Service that help move large amounts of data quickly, sometimes […]
GCP – Crux chose BigQuery for rock-solid, cost-effective data delivery
Editor’s note: Today, we’re hearing from data engineering and operations company Crux Informatics about how BigQuery helps them achieve rock-solid, cost-effective data delivery. At Crux Informatics, our mission is to get data flowing by removing obstacles in the delivery and ingestion of data at scale. We want to remove any friction across the data supply […]
GCP – Announcing the winners of our Google Cloud 2020 Partner Awards
Today, we are thrilled to announce our 2020 Google Cloud Partner award winners. These partners achieved exceptional results under extraordinary circumstances. We have been inspired by how these partners have collaborated, innovated, and supported our customers in truly incredible ways this past year. Day in and day out, our Google Cloud partners work tirelessly to […]
GCP – New Google Cloud Security offerings, just announced in the Government Security Summit keynote
This morning, Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, and I kicked off the Google Cloud Government Security Summit with a keynote address that announced a set of offerings to help federal, state, and local government organizations implement Zero Trust architecture in accordance with the White House’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, and in […]
GCP – Physicians say better data interoperability will save lives
COVID-19 affirmed the importance of data in healthcare, as the world rose to the challenge of understanding and fighting the pandemic. For decades, patient data has been stuck in silos, forcing physicians and caregivers to hunt across multiple sources for various bits of information to create a complete picture of a patient’s health. This lack […]