One of the biggest challenges for software developers is the need to make informed choices about the external software and products they use in their own software systems. Evaluating whether a given system is appropriately secured can be challenging, especially if it’s external or owned by a third party. This so-called software supply chain has […]

What a difference a quarter makes. In the span of just three months, Google Cloud teams deliver a raft of new, innovative capabilities for compute, networking, storage, serverless and containers. In this quarterly bulletin, we’re highlighting the key updates that dropped in Q2 2021, for each of the product areas that make up our Infrastructure […]

Google Cloud IDS, now available in preview, delivers cloud-native, managed, network-based threat detection, built with Palo Alto Networks’ industry-leading threat detection technologies to provide high levels of security efficacy. Cloud IDS can help customers gain deep insight into network-based threats and support industry-specific compliance goals that call for the use of an intrusion detection system. […]

Whether they were ready for it or not, the COVID-19 pandemic transformed many retailers into digital businesses. Retailers made huge investments into commerce technologies, customer experience tools, sales and fulfillment technology, and improving digital experiences to continue providing their goods and services to their customers. Now, more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, digital […]

BigQuery is capable of some truly impressive feats, be it scanning billions of rows based on a regular expression, joining large tables, or completing complex ETL tasks with just a SQL query.  One advantage of BigQuery (and SQL in general), is it’s declarative nature. Your SQL indicates your requirements, but the system is responsible for […]

Editor’s note: Today we’re hearing from Sagar Batchu, Director of Engineering at LiveRamp. He shares how Google Cloud helped LiveRamp modernize its data analytics infrastructure to simplify its operations, lower support and infrastructure costs and enable its customers to connect, control, and activate customer data safely and securely.  LiveRamp is a data connectivity platform that […]

A recent survey found that developers spend 39% of their time managing the DevOps infrastructure that powers their continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines. Unreliable availability, manual provisioning, limited scaling, breaking upgrades, long queue times, and high fixed costs all slow down development and take valuable time and focus away from DevOps teams. […]

The partnership between Google Cloud and SAP is entering a new chapter. Over the years, our close partnership with SAP and our mutual dedication to customers has inspired us to do some of our most unique and innovative work—such as building Fast Restart and Memory Poisoning Recovery capabilities for S/4HANA workloads, offering real-time access to […]