2024 has been a landmark year for Google Earth Engine, marked by significant advancements in platform management, cloud integration, and core functionality. With increased interoperability between Google Cloud tools and services, and Earth Engine, we’ve unlocked powerful new workflows and use cases for our users.  Here’s a round up of this year’s top Earth Engine […]

Think about your favorite apps – the ones that deliver instant results from massive amounts of data. They’re likely powered by vector search, the same technology that fuels generative AI. Vector search is crucial for developers who need to build applications that are lightning-fast, handle massive datasets, and remain cost-effective, even with huge spikes in […]

It’s been more than two and a half years since we introduced AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, our 100% PostgreSQL-compatible database that offers superior performance, availability, and scale. AlloyDB reimagines PostgreSQL with Google’s cutting-edge technology. It includes a scale-out architecture, built-in analytics, and AI/ML-powered management for a truly modern data experience, and is fully managed so you […]

A few months back, we kicked-off Network Performance Decoded, a series of whitepapers sharing best practices for network performance and benchmarking. Today, we’re dropping the second installment – and this one’s about some of those pesky performance limiters you’re bound to run into. In this blog, we’re giving you the inside scoop on how to […]

Conventional fraud detection methods have a hard time keeping up with increasingly sophisticated criminal tactics. Existing systems often rely on the limited data of individual institutions, and this hinders the detection of intricate schemes that span multiple banks and jurisdictions.  To better combat fraud in cross-border payments, Swift, the global provider of secure financial messaging […]

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for December 2024. Today, Nick Godfrey, senior director, Office of the CISO, shares our Forecast report for the coming year, with additional insights from our Office of the CISO colleagues. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. […]