Last month, we announced the preview launch of Network Connectivity Center, a new solution designed to simplify on-prem and cloud connectivity to Google Cloud. Today, we are excited to announce integrations with Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Versa Networks and VMware, allowing enterprises to embrace the power of automation and simplify their networking deployments even further.  […]

Businesses hoping to make timely, data-driven decisions know that the value of their data may degrade over time and can be perishable. This has created a growing demand to analyze and build insights from data the moment it becomes available, in real-time. Many will find that the operational and transactional data fuelling their business is […]

One of the biggest obstacles faced by enterprises pursuing digital transformation is the challenge of migrating off of legacy databases. These databases are typically locked into on-premises data centers, expensive to upgrade and difficult to maintain.  We want to make it easier. To that end, we’ve built an open source toolkit that can help you […]

Customers tell us that sharing and exchanging data with other organizations is a critical element of their analytics strategy, but it’s hamstrung by unreliable data and processes, and only getting harder with security threats and privacy regulations on the rise.  Furthermore, traditional data sharing techniques use batch data pipelines that are expensive to run, create […]

Every company in every industry is on a journey to become more data-driven whether that’s providing great digital experiences to customers, or driving operational excellence through AI, or detecting hidden patterns in data to improve decision making.  To help with this transformation, we are excited to announce new products and services designed to fully unify […]

Google Cloud database services provide a trusted platform for always-on applications with global reach and unlimited scale. Today, we are excited to announce that Bigtable joins Firestore and Cloud Spanner with an industry-leading 99.999% availability SLA. This new SLA builds on the new security features that we launched recently, Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) and Data […]

Cloud Spanner is a distributed relational database that’s designed for consistency and availability at scale. Like Google’s best known products, organizations in financial services, retail, gaming, and many other industries also rely on Spanner for their most demanding “run-the-business” workloads. The development and operations (DevOps) teams running these applications need to understand how Spanner uses […]

Customers love Cloud Spanner because it gives them the benefits of relational semantics and SQL while also delivering the scale and availability of non-relational databases. Many of these customers want to move even more of their work to Spanner, and have requested smaller instance sizes to support development, testing and small production workloads. We’re happy […]