Data is increasingly valuable, powering critical dashboards, machine learning applications, and even large language models (LLMs). Conversely, that means every minute of data downtime — the period of time data is wrong, incomplete, or inaccessible — is more and more costly. For example, a data pipeline failure at a digital advertising platform company could result […]

Businesses generate massive amounts of speech data every day, from customer calls to product demos to sales pitches. This data can transform your business by improving customer satisfaction, helping you prioritize product improvements and streamline business processes. While AI models have improved in the past few months, connecting speech data to these models in a […]

Cloud computing has become an essential part of many businesses and, as a Technical Account Manager, I have seen firsthand how cloud computing can help businesses save money and improve their agility. However, one of the challenges that businesses face when moving to the cloud is forecasting their cloud costs. If you are not careful, […]

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As part of our efforts to offer a best-in-class support experience, we launched Enhanced Support for Google Maps Platform in 2023. For customers with business-critical mapping workloads, Enhanced Support includes weekend coverage, escalations, communication with highly trained Google support engineers, and support for complex data issues. “We’re happy to be able to now provide enterprise-grade […]

Editor’s note: Today we hear from global beauty brand, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, on how they use Google Cloud Workflows and Sensitive Data Protection to respond quickly and at scale to customer data requests. Launched in September 2013 by iconic beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty was born out of Charlotte’s long-held desire to […]

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for December 2023. To close out the year, I’m sharing what attracted the most interest from our security updates this year, and Nick Godfrey from our Office of the CISO presents a selection of forward-looking insights from the Office of the CISO and our new Cybersecurity Forecast report […]

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If you’re considering using Vertex AI to train and deploy your models, you’re on the right track! Data is essential for machine learning, and the more data a model has and the higher quality it is, the better the model will perform. Before training a model, the data must be preprocessed, which means cleaning, transforming, […]