Today, we sit down virtually with the authors of the newly released O’Reilly book “Data Governance: The Definitive Guide”. Evren Eryurek is the Director of Product Management at Google Cloud whose portfolio includes data governance, data cataloging & discovery and data marketplace. Uri Gilad is spearheading a cross-functional effort to create the relevant controls, management tools and policy workflows […]

We’ve added a new skill badge this month, Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), which you can earn for free when you sign up for the Kubernetes track of the skills challenge. The skills challenge provides 30 days free access to Google Cloud labs and gives you the opportunity to earn skill badges to […]

Google first achieved carbon neutrality in 2007, and since 2017 we’ve purchased enough solar and wind energy to match 100% of our global electricity consumption. Now we’re building on that progress to target a new sustainability goal: running our business on carbon-free energy 24/7, everywhere, by 2030. Today, we’re sharing data about how we are […]

Cloud Spanner, a horizontally scalable relational database, recently launched a point-in-time recovery (PITR) capability that provides complete data protection against inadvertent data deletion or updates due to a user error. Spanner already provides Backup and Restore and Import/Export, which recover the database to the last state when the backup or the export was taken. With […]

When the University of Minnesota realized that Minnesota was facing a talent shortage in the critical field of healthcare, they knew they had to do something. The question of what action to take, however, was daunting. Though universities hold a host of data about their students, it can be difficult for university leaders to access […]