No one could have predicted a year like 2020, and businesses have needed to respond to changing conditions and new business requirements. I’ve been inspired by how some organizations—my husband’s employer, the hospitals my mom and brother work at, our local schools, as just a few examples—have been able to adapt quickly to changing times. […]

The cliché that “encryption is easy, but key management is hard,” remains true:  encryption key management is still a challenge for many large organizations. Add in cloud migration of many sensitive workloads, which necessitates encryption, and the challenges have become more acute. Cloud, however, also holds the potential for making encryption key management more performant, […]

Keeping all your VMs up-to-date with the latest patches is job #1 for any system administrator, but if you have a large deployment, you need to balance the speed of updates with potential reliability risks. Google Cloud’s OS patch management service is a powerful tool to help you install updates at scale across the whole […]

Tackling climate change requires rapidly transitioning the entire global economy to clean energy and Google Cloud will be at the forefront of this transition.  Google has a long track record on clean energy: in 2007, Google became the first major company to become carbon neutral. And in 2017, Google became the first company of our […]