Recent events have underscored the critical need for robust cloud security. The Cyber Safety Review Board’s (CSRB) in-depth analysis of the Microsoft Exchange Online intrusion, detailed in this blog post CSRB report highlights the need for new approaches to securing the public sector, reveals vulnerabilities that can impact any organization. This incident serves as a […]

As a fully-managed database service, Cloud SQL supports multiple major versions of MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server, each of which introduces essential features, performance improvements, and security enhancements. As newer open-source software (OSS) major versions are introduced, older versions are discontinued by the database engine community, prompting organizations to upgrade to newer versions. At Google […]

The parable of the blind men and the elephant provides us with a way to understand why people can disagree on a new topic: by looking at it from only their own perspective, they miss out on the greater whole. Platform engineering is a relatively new approach to software delivery that is being examined by […]

Despite AI’s potential to drive competitive advantages, realizing its business value remains a challenge. Organizations are still struggling to move AI projects beyond experimentation, with some estimates in the last few years indicating that more than half of machine learning (ML) pilots fail to make it to production.  ML systems are full of hidden technical […]

Editor’s note: DZ BANK is the second largest bank by asset size in Germany. It is also the central institution for all cooperative banks in Germany, which number around 700. Read on to learn how it used Cloud Workstations to improve the developer experience — onboarding them faster and making them more productive — while […]

Introduction Once in a while, you come across a feature that is so easy to use and so useful that you don’t know how you lived without it before. For me, Vertex AI’s Grounding with Google Search is one of those features.  In this blog post, I explain why you need grounding with large language […]