The stakes have never been higher for managing cloud risks. With organizations of every size and in every industry pursuing cloud-first strategies, the cloud is now home to their most critical applications and data. Adversaries have picked up on this ongoing shift, too: APT groups known for regularly targeting corporate and government organizations are increasingly […]

AI is making a powerful impact all around us, but few sectors stand to benefit as profoundly as healthcare. Doctors and nurses are already starting to use AI as a capable assistant — getting help with medical notes, for example, or using AI in medical imaging to help with disease detection. This is just the […]

The open-source tool Vertex AI AlphaFold Inference Pipeline has enabled biotech companies in streamlining protein-folding activities, accelerating their go to market timeline. It addresses key challenges in protein structure prediction by unleashing the power of parallel processing, optimizing compute resources, and scaling to meet high-throughput demands. Furthermore, it ensures reproducibility, lineage analysis, flexibility, adaptability, and […]

Editor’s Note: Launched in 2007, Chess.com is a premium platform for online chess and one of the largest of its kind. A Cloud SQL for MySQL shop, it transitioned to Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition, improving the user experience, cutting costs, and significantly reducing response times, decreasing p99 latency response from 14ms to 4ms. Read […]

As cyber threats and risks continue to evolve, robust security is more than just an IT issue — it is imperative for business success and continuity. To help you better understand the current cybersecurity landscape, including guidance on regulatory changes and the latest threat intelligence, we bring you the first 2024 installment of Google Cloud […]

Data is a competitive advantage and customers in all industries are looking for complete, simplified business intelligence (BI) solutions to meet their specific needs. Every company, team, and individual wants to work with data to solve problems in their own way, with intuitive tools designed for today’s AI-driven landscape. Our vision is to make Looker […]

Today, organizations can build a robust, end-to-end data infrastructure with a fraction of the in-house engineering resources. Livesport — a provider of real-time data, results, and statistics for virtually all sporting events around the globe — recognized this early on when building their data team. Livesport was already using BigQuery as a data warehouse for […]

In the increasingly competitive generative AI space, developers are looking for scalable and cost-effective means of differentiation and ways to improve user experience. Last week, we announced several enhancements to Memorystore for Redis, evolving it into a core building block for developers who are creating low-latency generative AI applications. First, we launched native Memorystore support […]

The world of AI has undergone a transformation with the rise of large language models (LLMs). These advanced models, often regarded as the zenith of current natural language processing (NLP) innovations, excel at crafting human-like text for a wide array of domains. A trend gaining traction is the tailoring of LLMs for specific fields — […]

Spanner, Google Cloud’s fully managed, highly available distributed database service, combines virtually-unlimited horizontal scalability with relational semantics, for both relational and non-relational workloads — all with a 99.999% availability SLA. As data volumes grow and applications demand more from their operational databases, customers need scale. We recently announced support for searching vector embeddings with exact […]