This past year will be remembered as one of the most turbulent years in retail history. Retailers and brands across the globe have undergone tremendous pressure to quickly transform their business and adapt to the challenges created by Covid-19. As retailers closed store doors and limited the amount of in-store traffic to keep employees and […]

While watching The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix just recently, I was reminded about how much I used to enjoy playing chess. I was eager to play a game, so I started to tweet, “D2-D4” knowing that someone would recognize this as an opening move and likely respond with their move, giving me the fix I needed. I […]

Our mission at Google Cloud is to accelerate your ability to digitally transform and reimagine your business through data-powered innovation. To stay true to our mission we made the choice to embrace an open cloudapproach early on. This is reflected in our contributions to projects like Kubernetes, TensorFlow, Knative, Go and many more. On top […]

Most of us know that there is real value to be had in modernizing workloads, and there are plenty of customer success stories to showcase that. But, even though the value in modernizing workloads to Kubernetes has been well documented, there are still plenty of businesses that haven’t been able to make the jump.  Reluctant […]

The Apache Hive metastore service has become a building block for data lakes that utilize the diverse world of open-source software, such as Apache Spark and Presto. We’re launching the Dataproc Metastore into public preview today, so these powerful tools are now easy to use by any Google Cloud customer with fewer distractions and delays. […]

Core to our goal of delivering security innovation is the ability to offer powerful features as part of our cloud infrastructure that are easy for customers to implement and use. Confidential computing can provide a flexible, isolated, hardware-based trusted execution environment, allowing adopters to protect their data and sensitive code against malicious access and memory […]

Organizations are increasingly investing in modern cloud warehouses and data lake solutions to augment analytics environments and improve business decisions. The business value of such repositories increases as additional data is added. And with today’s connected world and many companies adopting a multi-cloud strategy, it is very common to see a scenario where the source […]