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GCP – Five key things to consider when building a cloud FinOps team
In today’s fast-paced business landscape, managing cloud costs efficiently has become crucial. To achieve this, organizations are increasingly turning to Cloud FinOps teams to optimize their cloud spend and help realize value from their investment in the cloud. Hence, building a successful cloud FinOps team involves careful planning and consideration. In this blog post, we […]
GCP – Start-up The Drivers Cooperative steers community transport while experiencing 12x growth
Editor’s note: Today’s blog post comes from Erik Forman, The Drivers Cooperative co-Founder. Erik shares how The Drivers Cooperative supports a living wage for drivers in one of the most expensive cities in the U.S. to sustainably support paratransit passengers who are reliant on rides to get to their life-critical appointments using Google Maps Platform. […]
GCP – Start your cloud networking journey today
Cloud Networking is exciting, it is invisible, and yet without it nothing would communicate. If you need a high-level overview of the core services in Google Cloud, then the newly created Tour Of Cloud Networking lab is for you. Let’s take a look at this informational lab. The scale The lab introduces you to Google’s […]
GCP – Medical Text Processing on Google Cloud
The FDA has a history of using real world evidence (RWE) as an integral component of the drug approval process. Moreover, RWE can mitigate the need for placebos in some clinical trials. The clinical records that make RWE evidence useful, however, often reside in unstructured formats, such as doctor’s notes, and must be “abstracted” into […]
GCP – Streamline digital commerce with the Integrated Commerce Network from Kin + Carta
At Google Cloud, we’re always looking for ways to help our retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG), and B2B and B2C customers along their digital commerce transformation, no matter the starting point. Whether you’re an enterprise manufacturer who needs to modernize and deliver a consumer-like commerce experience to your B2B customers, or a leading CPG company […]
GCP – Faster startup times for Kubernetes workloads with Kube Startup CPU Boost
Despite Kubernetes’ many automation features, running containerized applications comes with some challenges. One of them is the need to define resources required by the application. Those are typically CPU and memory but may also include local storage. Kubernetes provides a way of configuring resources for an application in the Pod templates. code_block <ListValue: [StructValue([(‘code’, ‘metadata:rn […]
GCP – No GPU? No problem. localllm lets you develop gen AI apps on local CPUs
In today’s fast-paced AI landscape, developers face numerous challenges when it comes to building applications that use large language models (LLMs). In particular, the scarcity of GPUs, which are traditionally required for running LLMs, poses a significant hurdle. In this post, we introduce you to a novel solution that allows developers to harness the power […]
GCP – Simplify DORA compliance with Google Cloud’s updated contracts
With less than one year to prepare for the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 – ‘DORA’) coming into force, today we are sharing more information about how Google Cloud plans to support financial entities with their DORA compliance. As an organization, we are committed to DORA compliance and a cross-functional team at […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Query Editor is now available in 2 additional AWS Regions
Amazon Redshift Query Editor is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) regions. Amazon Redshift Query Editor makes data in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse and data lake more accessible with a web-based tool for SQL users such as data analysts, data scientists, and database developers. With Query Editor, users can explore, […]
GCP – Firestore Multiple Databases is now generally available
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Firestore Multiple Databases, which lets you manage multiple Firestore databases within a single Google Cloud project, enhancing data separation, security, resource management, and cost tracking. With this milestone, multiple databases are now fully supported in the Google Cloud console, Terraform resources, and all of Firestore’s SDKs. Each […]