Editor’s note: Today we hear from Glance, which offers diverse and engaging content directly on the lock screen of Android Phones ranging from breaking news, gaming, entertainment, to personalized shopping recommendations, empowering individuals to effortlessly discover and engage with what they love, all at a single glance. The company recently migrated from Azure Cosmos DB […]

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) empowers businesses to efficiently orchestrate, manage, and scale containerized applications within Google Cloud. When designing your GKE environment, a pivotal decision arises: selecting between a regional or zonal cluster. This choice significantly impacts your application’s availability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. In this blog post, we delve into the characteristics and considerations associated […]

At Google Cloud, we’re committed to empowering customer choice and innovation through our curated collection of first-party, open-source, and third-party models available in Vertex AI. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce that Claude 3 — Anthropic’s new family of state-of-the-art models — will be generally available in Vertex AI Model Garden over the coming weeks, […]

While generative AI is a revolutionary technology that’s disrupting industries and transforming business operations, its success depends on data. Data is crucial for AI, as it is the foundation upon which machine learning algorithms learn, are grounded, make predictions, and improve performance over time. As a result, many CIOs are asking the question: are we […]

Editor’s note: Google Nest — a leader in smart home products — migrated its legacy services to Google Cloud with minimal downtime, no outages, and no lost or corrupted data. Here’s how the team reduced infrastructure costs, improved performance, and increased system reliability. Google Nest makes a variety of smart home products, including smart speakers, […]

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for February 2024. Today, Charley Snyder, a Google expert on the intersection of security and public policy, talks about our announcements at February’s Munich Security Conference — and why the conference plays a vital role in public policy conversations. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of […]

In today’s cloud-native landscape, organizations demand both agile API management and the flexibility of microservices running on Kubernetes. Google Cloud offers powerful solutions for comprehensive API management capabilities with Apigee and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for orchestration of containerized applications. But bridging these environments for streamlined API traffic to your Kubernetes-based microservices can present hurdles. […]

Cybercriminals often use lateral movement techniques when exploring a compromised network to slide sideways, from devices to applications, as they hunt for vulnerabilities, escalate access privileges, and seek to reach their ultimate target. Research published today by Palo Alto Networks highlights several techniques that exploit misconfigurations which could allow a malicious actor to move laterally […]

Network service exposure and monetization via standardized APIs has been a focus area for many Communications Service Providers (CSPs) globally for several years now. These efforts have recently gathered momentum via industry-wide efforts including GSMA Open Gateway, a GSMA-led alliance with a focus on providing common standard services by all CSPs, following the CAMARA specifications […]

Google Cloud has been delivering AI innovations to the contact center for almost a decade. Our Contact Center AI (CCAI) solutions are deployed across almost every industry — from financial services to automotive, retail, healthcare — and especially in telecommunications. Over the course of that time, we have seen tens of millions of call deflections […]