Welcome to December’s Cloud CISO Perspectives. This month, we’re going to look back at the most important security lessons of 2022 with my colleagues in our Office of the CISO and on the Google Cybersecurity Action Team. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. […]

Once upon a time, all Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters used public IP addressing for communication between nodes and the control plane. Subsequently, we heard your security concerns and introduced private clusters enabled by VPC peering.  To consolidate the connectivity types, starting in March 2022, we began using Google Cloud’s Private Service Connect (PSC) for […]

Today’s enterprise applications are often assembled across distributed environments. This includes the integration of services across multi-cloud, multi-SaaS and on-premises environments. While the approach has the advantage of enabling enterprises to choose the best service available to support their applications, it adds the complexity of delivering services across heterogeneous environments. To solve this, Cloud Load […]

Since I joined Google Cloud at the start of 2022, one theme that comes up time and time again in conversations with leaders both at our customers and partners is this: meaningful Climate Action is now about business transformation, and business transformation is essential if society is to meet its ever-more-urgent climate goals.. We spent […]

Like many states across the U.S., Kentucky experienced significant job shortages when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in spring of 2020. In the first four months of the pandemic alone, Kentucky’s workforce shrank by 112,000. Cloud computing talent gaps in the state have been particularly acute – with more than 1,000 open cloud roles in 2022 […]

In 2020, Google Cloud launched the Research Innovators program to encourage scientific breakthroughs with the latest cloud technologies. With access to Google experts and support from peers, research innovators are able to fast-track their projects for real-world impact. They receive additional Google Cloud research credits, support to share their work, speaking opportunities, complimentary admission to […]