Most organizations choose to work with multiple cloud providers, for a host of different reasons. In a recent Gartner survey of public cloud users, 81% of respondents said they are working with two or more providers. And as well you should! It’s completely reasonable to use the capabilities from multiple cloud providers to achieve your […]

As we discussed in our recently published article, no-code hackathons are a great way to empower line-of-business workers and encourage innovation, but they sometimes require different planning steps than traditional hackathons aimed at coders. In this article, we take a look at three questions you should ask yourself to refine the event’s goals, as well […]

At Google Cloud, we work closely with customers who want to assess and verify the security of our platform. Take as an example our recent collaboration with the Collaborative Cloud Audit Group (CCAG). As our customers increased their use of cloud services to meet the demands of teleworking andaid in COVID-19 recovery, we’ve worked hard […]

Cloud Spanner is Google Cloud’s fully managed relational database that offers unlimited scale, high performance, strong consistency across regions and high availability (up to 99.999% availability SLA). In addition, enterprises trust Spanner because it provides security, transparency and complete data protection to its customers. To give enterprises greater control of how their data is secured, […]

What is orchestration?  Orchestration often refers to the automated configuration, coordination, and management of computer systems and services.  In the context of service-oriented architectures, orchestration can range from simply executing a single service at a specific time and day, to a more sophisticated approach of automating and monitoring multiple services over longer periods of time, […]