Cloud computing provides the power and speed needed for Machine Learning (ML), and allows you to easily scale up and down. However, this also means that costs may spin out of control if you don’t plan ahead, which is especially fraught now, given that businesses are particularly cost conscious.  To use Google Cloud effectively for […]

As COVID-19 turned our world into a more physically distant one, many people began looking to online video conferencing to maintain social, educational, and workplace contact. As shown in the graph below, this shift has driven huge numbers of additional users to Google Meet. The continental peak session count dictated how much serving capacity we […]

Whether you’re helping your users shop for a home or plan a staycation, chances are one of the things they’re most interested in is understanding proximity to shopping and restaurants. Many cities have specific areas or districts where these types of businesses are concentrated, which often makes them the most vibrant and popular places. We […]

Shifting from an on-premise model to a cloud-based one opens up new opportunities when it comes to logging and securing your workloads. In this series of blog posts, we’ll cover some cloud-native technologies you can use to detect security threats and alert on logs in Google Cloud. The end result will be an end-to-end logs-based […]

There are plenty of things in life where “good enough” is a worthy goal. But if you’re a SAP administrator, you know that “good enough” simply isn’t when it comes to reducing system downtime and achieving faster restart times on your business-critical SAP HANA environments. Of course, when you’re pursuing perfection, some tactics are better […]

Organizations move to the cloud for many reasons, from improved efficiency, to ease of management, to better security. That’s right, one of the most important benefits of moving to the cloud is the opportunity to establish a robust baseline security and compliance posture.  But it doesn’t just magically happen. While you can depend on Google […]

Cloud Spanner is Google Cloud’s massively scalable relational database service. A core tenet of Spanner’s vision has been ensuring high availability of applications with external strong consistency. In support of this, we’ve launched two new multi-regions of Spanner that offer 99.999% availability: the Asia multi-region (asia1) and the Europe multi-region (eur5). More multi-regions allow you […]