In Germany, public procurement can be a highly complex and time-consuming process. More than 30,000 procurement entities vie for contracts across a fragmented regulatory landscape, with different rules applying at the federal, state, and municipal levels. Since public procurement procedures are often time-consuming, particularly for large or high-value contracts, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often […]

Editor’s note: Today’s blog post comes from Pavel Matveev, CEO and Co-Founder, Wirex. Wirex is on a mission to take crypto mainstream while offering customers clear insights into every transaction with Google Maps Platform. At Wirex, we’ve made it our mission to bring cryptocurrency into the mainstream. As the creator of the world’s first crypto-enabled […]

Editor’s note: Today, we hear from Google Fellow Amin Vahdat, who is the VP & GM for ML, Systems, and Cloud AI at Google. Amin originally delivered this as a keynote in 2023 at the University of Washington for The Allen School’s Distinguished Lecture Series. This post captures Amin’s reflections on the history of distributed […]

In December, Google announced Gemini, our most capable and general model yet. Since December, select customers like Samsung and Palo Alto Networks have been building sophisticated AI agents with Gemini models in Vertex AI, unlocking new levels of productivity, personalized learning, and more for their users. Today, we’re bringing more Gemini models to our customers […]

NVIDIA L4 GPUs and Google Cloud deliver the next level of cloud GPU performance to handle the rendering of your most demanding projects, along with capacity autoscaling that automatically scales resources to match traffic surges and daily peaks and troughs. This ensures that you have only the capacity you need at all times. Today, we […]

The advent of advanced AI and machine learning (ML) technologies has revolutionized the way organizations leverage their data, offering new opportunities to unlock its potential. Today, we’re announcing the public preview of vector search in BigQuery, which enables vector similarity search on BigQuery data. This functionality, also commonly referred to as approximate nearest-neighbor search, is […]

Editor’s note: The post is part of a series showcasing partner solutions that are Built with BigQuery. Blockchains generate a lot of data with every transaction. The beauty of Web3 is that all of that data is publicly available. But the multichain and modular expansion of the space has increased the complexity of accessing data, […]

In Kubernetes, persistent volumes were initially managed by in-tree plugins, but this approach hindered development and feature implementation since in-tree plugins were compiled and shipped as part of k8s source code. To address this, the Container Storage Interface (CSI) was introduced, standardizing storage system exposure to containerized workloads. CSI drivers for standard volumes like Google […]

In December, the Looker team invited our developer and data community to collaborate, learn, and inspire each other at our annual Looker Hackathon. More than 400 participants from 93 countries joined together, hacked away for 48 hours and created 52 applications, tools, and data experiences. The hacks use Looker and Looker Studio’s developer features, data […]

It’s estimated that cyber crimes will cost $10.5 trillion annually by 2025.1 How are you planning to protect your business from this growing threat? Traditionally, upgrading to the latest available operating system has been a viable way to reduce the chance of an attack, but with hundreds of millions of Windows 10 devices losing support […]