Data is at the heart of digital transformation and organizations are looking to find new opportunities to transform customer experiences, boost revenue, and reduce costs. In a new study conducted by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services for Google Cloud, 91% percent of leaders say that democratizing access to data is imperative to business success, and […]

Financial services institutions increasingly rely on external service providers for a variety of technology-related services, including cloud computing. This trend materialized as firms recognized the value in focusing on their core competencies while using third party solutions to gain business, operational, security, resiliency, and other efficiencies. As the financial services sector is one of the […]

Google Cloud offers a clever way of allowingGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE) workloads to safely and securely authenticate to Google APIs with minimal credentials exposure. I will illustrate this method using a tool called kaniko. What is kaniko? kaniko is an open source tool that allows you to build and push container images from Kubernetes pods […]

Editor’s note: Alicia Abella is the Managing Director for Telecommunications Industry Solutions at Google Cloud. The work involves bringing complex, advanced technology to businesses across diverse markets and cultures — from startups in Brazil to North America’s largest telecommunications companies. The daughter of immigrants from Cuba, she has a PhD, 29 patents, and extensive experience […]

Many data analytics practitioners today are interested in ways they can accelerate new scenarios and use cases to enable business outcomes and competitive advantage. As many enterprises look at rationalizing their data investments and modernizing their data analytics platform strategies, the prospect of migrating to a new cloud-first data platform like Google’s Data Cloud can […]