From rice genomes to historical hurricane data, Google Cloud Public Datasets offer a world of exploration and insight. The more than 20 PB across 200+ datasets in our Public Dataset Program helps you explore big data and data analytics without a lot of cost, setup, or overhead. You can explore up to 1 TB per […]

The Google Maps Platform team strives to provide the highest level of service possible to our users. Still, from time to time, unexpected service disruptions do occur. When your team experiences an outage or other technical challenge, one of the first evaluations they need to make is whether the issue is with a third-party service […]

It’s been a historic year for the retail industry. The pandemic fast-tracked digital trends that the industry had been pondering over the previous decade, separating retail leaders and laggards. What were once nice-to-have technological differentiators became necessities when the pandemic hit.  As retailers scrambled to digitize, consumers took to online shopping unlike ever before. Brands […]

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. […]