Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Alexander Pöllmann, Head of Workplace Technology at Viessmann, a Germany-based manufacturing company providing climate solutions. Following its adoption of Google Workspace and Chrome Browser in 2017, Viessmann added Chromebooks last year, aiming to roll out 3,000 Chrome devices by 2022. By 2019, our company was already well on the […]

BigQuery column-level security now GA  As organizations bring more and more-sensitive data analytics workloads to the cloud, BigQuery is entrusted to provide fine-grained security and governance controls that help them satisfy principles of least-privileged access. Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of BigQuery column-level security. Introduced earlier this year, column-level security […]

When people think about whether or not to deploy on a container management platform like Kubernetes, the decision often comes down to its operational benefits: better resource efficiency, higher scalability, advanced resiliency, security, etc. But Kubernetes is also beneficial to the software development side of the house. Whether it’s improved portability of your code, or […]

It’s been 20 years since Jerry Maguire hit movie theaters in 1996, and yet one line from the movie still resonates like no other. The constant banter between the agent, Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) and budding professional football player Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is fun, if not bombastic, with one central theme that Tidwell […]

Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir looked a little different this year. Instead of a three-day conference, we launched a nine-week digital event series that brought together our global cloud community to discuss and collaborate on the most significant cloud technology challenges facing companies today.  We may have gone virtual, but some things stayed the same—all […]

Editor’s note:We recently hosted a webinar to provide an overview of Local Context, a new turnkey solution that adds Google’s rich, local information to your desktop or mobile web app. We received a variety of questions from the audience and ran out of time before we could answer them all. We sat down with Product […]

Media and entertainment companies across the world are in the midst of a transformational shift to direct-to-consumer (D2C) streaming experiences. With audiences sheltering in place in 2020, this shift has been accelerated as audiences have adopted new streaming services more readily in 2020 than ever before. With more content being streamed in higher resolutions and […]

Harvard Global Health Institute and Google Cloud have been working the past three months to improve the COVID-19 Public Forecasts, to give first responders and healthcare organizations the best possible information to prepare for what lies ahead.  These forecasts use AI to provide a projection of COVID-19 cases, deaths, and other metrics for U.S. counties […]