At Google Cloud we are constantly working on providing capabilities to improve the cost-efficiency of your infrastructure. One of the ways to do that is to stop or suspend your Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs), to avoid compute charges if they are idle. However, if you manage your applications with Managed Instance Groups (MIGs), this […]

At loveholidays, one of the UK’s fastest-growing online travel agents, we consider ourselves a tech company that sells travel. Our tech stack underpins everything we do. Previously, technology placed a limit on what we could achieve. The two large sales peaks we experience every year — at the end of the year and over the […]

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for February 2024. Today I’ll be looking at our latest Threat Horizons report, which provides a forward-thinking view of cloud security with intelligence on emerging threats and actionable recommendations from Google’s security experts. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the […]

British author and novelist L.P. Hartley once said, “The past is a foreign country: They do things differently there.” This sentiment is especially true in the realm of mainframe migrations, which often trigger unforeseen changes across an organization. Processes established in mainframe environments tend to be delivered as centralized internal services with critical capabilities, such […]

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 […]