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GCP – Contributing to a sustainable future with Chrome OS and partners
From efficient data centers to purchasing renewable energy at scale, Google is dedicated to doing our part to protect the environment and planet alongside our customers, partners, and larger communities. In 2007, Google became a carbon neutral company, and in 2017, it became the first company to match 100% of its annual electricity consumption with […]
Azure – Public preview: Enhancements to encryption using customer managed keys for Azure Backup
Encryption of backup data in Recovery Services vaults using customer managed keys has enhancements in public preview. Read More for the details.
GCP – Monitor applications on GKE Autopilot with the GKE Dashboard
Elite software development teams automate and integrate monitoring observability tools more frequently than lower performing teams, per the Accelerate: State of DevOps report. Organizations that need the highest levels of reliability, security, and scalability for their applications choose Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Recently we introduced GKE Autopilot to further simplify Kubernetes operations by automating the […]
GCP – Getty Images supports its workforce with Chrome Browser Cloud Management
Editor’s note: Getty Images works with over 350,000 contributors and hundreds of image partners to provide comprehensive coverage of more than 160,000 news, sports, and entertainment events each year, impactful creative imagery to communicate any commercial concept, and the world’s deepest digital archive of historic photography. The company chose Chrome and Chrome Browser Cloud Management […]
GCP – Better protect your web apps and APIs against threats and fraud with Google Cloud
With web applications and public APIs becoming increasingly important to how organizations interface with their customers and partners, many are turning to dedicated tools that can help protect these assets. As research firm Gartner notes in its 2020 report “Defining Cloud Web Application and API Protection Services,” “By 2023, more than 30% of public-facing web […]
GCP – 3 keys to multicloud success you’ll find in Anthos 1.7
Most organizations choose to work with multiple cloud providers, for a host of different reasons. In a recent Gartner survey of public cloud users, 81% of respondents said they are working with two or more providers. And as well you should! It’s completely reasonable to use the capabilities from multiple cloud providers to achieve your […]
GCP – Part 2: Hackathons aren’t just for programmers anymore
As we discussed in our recently published article, no-code hackathons are a great way to empower line-of-business workers and encourage innovation, but they sometimes require different planning steps than traditional hackathons aimed at coders. In this article, we take a look at three questions you should ask yourself to refine the event’s goals, as well […]
GCP – Earning customer trust through a pandemic: delivering our 2020 CCAG pooled audit
At Google Cloud, we work closely with customers who want to assess and verify the security of our platform. Take as an example our recent collaboration with the Collaborative Cloud Audit Group (CCAG). As our customers increased their use of cloud services to meet the demands of teleworking andaid in COVID-19 recovery, we’ve worked hard […]
GCP – Cloud Spanner launches customer-managed encryption keys and Access Approval
Cloud Spanner is Google Cloud’s fully managed relational database that offers unlimited scale, high performance, strong consistency across regions and high availability (up to 99.999% availability SLA). In addition, enterprises trust Spanner because it provides security, transparency and complete data protection to its customers. To give enterprises greater control of how their data is secured, […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure Purview is now available in the UK South and Australia East region
Azure Purview is now available in public preview in the Australia East and UK South region. You can now provision Azure Purview accounts in these regions as a public preview offering. Read More for the details.
