If you’re looking for tips to optimize cloud costs, you’ve come to the right place! Remember, optimizing your cloud expenses isn’t just about cutting costs. It’s about knowing where to invest your money to maximize business value. The balance between value and cost is crucial. Instead of focusing solely on cloud costs reduction, you must […]

Just as the Internet revolutionized our working practices, and social media rewrote the rules of marketing, Cloud FinOps is now reshaping the business landscape. As we shared in our introduction, with Cloud FinOps, your business can take full advantage of your digital transformation and the scalable, flexible infrastructure that the cloud provides while being efficient. […]

At Pinecone, we offer one of the leading vector databases, providing a fully managed, scalable, and easy-to-use platform for vector search. Used by a wide range of customers, including Fortune 500 companies and startups, our vector database helps to power a variety of applications. Recently, we migrated Pinecone’s underlying database engine to Spanner — here […]

Food and water security are among the most pressing problems facing the world today. According to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the world will see a 60% increase in demand for food by 2050. And according to the World Health Organization, since 2019, an additional 122 million people are experiencing hunger, due […]

In 2006, Mike Wiacek stepped into Google’s Mountain View offices, beginning an almost 14-year journey. He founded Google’s Threat Analysis Group and co-founded Chronicle, an Alphabet cybersecurity venture now a part of Google Cloud. Today, Mike summarizes how his experiences as a Googler shaped the way he built Stairwell, his new company. While cybersecurity may […]

Editor’s note: Today we hear from Space and Time, whose decentralized data warehouse and novel zero-knowledge (ZK) proof for SQL operations was recently integrated into BigQuery. Read on to learn more about how Space and Time is working to improve Blockchain-based smart contracts for the Web3 space, and how to use their technology within the […]

Do you wonder about the carbon footprint of that Mexican mango you bought in a New York bodega to brighten your winter day? What about a Normandy Camembert for sale in a Parisian cheese shop? If you answered yes, keep reading. Agriculture contributes to 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions, consumes 70% of the world’s […]

The World Economic Forum has ranked biodiversity loss as the fourth largest global risk over the next ten years, driven in large part by climate change. Recently, companies have been increasing their commitments to nature and biodiversity. However, decision makers don’t fully understand how business decisions impact nature. Geospatial technologies, combined with AI and analytics […]

Every year the world loses around 10 million hectares of forest, while deforestation alone accounts for 11% of greenhouse gas emissions. As world leaders convene at COP28 to discuss today’s theme of nature preservation, it’s important to focus on legislation — an essential factor in combating climate change. And to realize significant impact, it’s also […]