Last November, we made relational database migration easier for MySQL users with our public preview of Database Migration Service (DMS). Today, we’ve officially made the product generally available, and bring the same easy-to-use migration functionality to PostgreSQL. The thing I’ve appreciated the most about diving deep with DMS has been that it just works. Once […]

Editor’s note: We’re hearing today from Freedom Financial Network, provider of technology-based solutions that help consumers establish financial security and overcome debt. To speed their migration to Google Cloud SQL, they turned to our Database Migration Service.  Freedom Financial Network’s products and services have helped hundreds of thousands of consumers reduce and consolidate their debt. […]

We’re excited to announce that Google Cloud’s Database Migration Service (DMS) is generally available, supporting MySQL and PostgreSQL migrations from on-premises and other clouds to Cloud SQL. Later this year we will introduce support for Microsoft SQL Server. You can get started with DMS today at no additional charge. Enterprises are modernizing their business infrastructure […]

Organizations are realizing that experience management and analysis are important aspects of understanding needs and providing the best level of service to customers, employees, and vendors. Surveys are a powerful vehicle within the experience management space for data collection within organizations of all shapes and sizes. According to Verified Market Research, Experience Management, which includes […]

Organizations are increasingly investing in digital businesses ecosystem strategies to foster innovation and operate efficiently. These ecosystems connect various stakeholders–such as partners, developers, and customers–via application programming interfaces, or APIs. APIs allow various software systems to interface, and are thus the primary mechanism of value exchange within these ecosystems.      For example, Bank BRI, one of […]

Google Cloud is offering no-cost training opportunities to help you gain the latest AI and machine learning skills. You’ll have a chance to learn more about the new Document AI along with Explainable AI, Looker, BigQuery ML, and Dialogflow CX.  Document AI The new Document AI (DocAI) platform, a unified console for document processing, became […]

When looking at data, business decision makers are often blocked by an intermediate question of “What should I take away from this data?” Beyond putting together the numbers and building the results, data analysts and data scientists play a critical role in helping answer this question. Organizations big and small depend on data analysts and […]

Cloud Spanner is a strongly consistent, highly scalable, relational database. It powers billion-user products every month. In order to provide high availability and geographic locality, Cloud Spanner creates multiple copies (aka replicas) of your data and then stores these replicas across different geographical locations. This blog post discusses what this entails. To create a database […]

Windows Authentication is now supported on Cloud SQL for SQL Server. We’ve launched seamless integration with Google Cloud’s Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD), now in public preview. This capability is a critical requirement to simplify identity management and streamline the migration of existing SQL Server workloads that rely on AD for access control. […]