When Virgin Media and O2 joined forces in June 2021, we made it our mission to modernize the country’s connectivity. By the end of that year, we had completed upgrading our fixed broadband network with download speeds of at least one gigabit per second, supporting the UK government’s drive to take gigabit broadband nationwide by […]

Open-source software (OSS) is a type of software that anyone can use, modify and distribute. Development teams can gain tremendous benefits from leveraging the OSS ecosystem, as long as organizations invest in the tooling to address the security, scalability, and sustainability challenges that come with it. Without this tooling, organizations and their software delivery pipelines […]

Editor’s note: In today’s guest post we hear from Banco BV about their application modernization journey with Anthos and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Banco BV migrated its banking apps from the OpenShift platform in the data center to GKE in Google Cloud, and uses Anthos Service Mesh and Config Sync to manage its GKE clusters […]

At Google Cloud, we fully grasp that the need for technical support can arise at any hour. Further,  the importance of communicating in a language you’re comfortable is paramount, particularly when dealing with urgent issues. To help, we’re expanding the current 8×5 support offering to 24×7 for P1 and P2 cases for Korean Enhanced and […]

How can Municipal IT departments support cities’ digital transformation? Ask Reto Hirt, lead IT architect at Zurich’s information technology center OIZ. In this guest blog post, Hirt takes us behind the scenes of his department, which supports the city’s digital acceleration. He shares the unique IT challenges in the public sector, how Zurich’s IT is […]