Welcome to above the clouds
GCP – Network Connectivity Center: Expanding SD-WAN’s reach with new partners
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. Network […]
GCP – Real-time Change Data Capture for data replication into BigQuery
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 […]
GCP – Migrate from Oracle to PostgreSQL with minimal downtime with Datastream
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 […]
GCP – Introducing Analytics Hub: secure and scalable sharing for data and analytics
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 […]
GCP – New Google Cloud innovations to unify your data cloud
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 […]
GCP – Cloud Bigtable lifts SLA to 99.999% and adds new security features for regulated industries
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 […]
GCP – Understanding Cloud Spanner performance metrics at scale with Key Visualizer
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 […]
GCP – Cloud Spanner trims entry cost by 90%, offers sharper observability and easier querying
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 […]
GCP – Unlock the power of change data capture and replication with new, serverless Datastream
Today, we’re announcing Datastream, a serverless change data capture (CDC) and replication service, available now in preview. Datastream allows enterprises to synchronize data across heterogeneous databases, storage systems, and applications reliably and with minimal latency to support real-time analytics, database replication, and event-driven architectures. You can now easily and seamlessly deliver change streams from Oracle […]
GCP – Dataflow Prime: bring unparalleled efficiency and radical simplicity to big data processing
The speed with which businesses are able to respond to change is the difference between those that successfully navigate the future and those that get left behind. Answering “What has happened” isn’t enough – businesses now need to know “What is happening now” and “What might happen”, and take proactive action in response. Addressing these […]
