Routine maintenance is critical in the upkeep of any healthy database system. Maintenance involves updating your operating system and upgrading your database software so that you can rest assured that your system is secure, performant, and up-to-date. When you run your database on Cloud SQL, we schedule maintenance for you once every few months during […]

With Cloud SQL for SQL Server, you can bring your existing SQL Server on-premises workloads to Google Cloud. Cloud SQL takes care of infrastructure, maintenance, and patching so you can focus on your application and users. A great way to take better care of your application is by monitoring the SQL Server error log for […]

BrabantZorg, in southeastern Netherlands, provides healthcare services to seniors and patients recovering from surgery, with about 6,000 employees, 3,500 volunteers, and around 10,000 clients and patients across senior living homes and short-term care facilities. When it came time to reassess their infrastructure and collaboration tools to fuel their mission at the end of 2020, they […]

Prometheus is considered the de facto standard for Kubernetes application metrics, but running it yourself can strain engineering time and infrastructure resources when your usage grows. In March, we announced the general availability of Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus to help you offload that burden, and today, we’re excited to announce a new low-cost, […]

Editor’s note: Today we hear from Maisons du Monde, a furniture and home decor company that was founded in France over 25 years ago. They have 357 stores across France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Portugal, and are a Google Cloud customer. They worked with their Customer Engineer, Adrien Aflalo, to […]

Since Aristocrat’s founding in 1953, technology has constantly transformed gaming and the digital demands on our gaming business are a far cry from challenges we faced when we started. As we continue to expand globally, security and compliance are top priorities.  Managing IT security for several gaming subsidiaries and our core business became more complex […]

The cloud has become the choice for extending and modernizing applications, but there are some situations where the transition is not straightforward, such as migrating applications that access data from a mainframe environment.  Migrating the data and the applications at certain points can be outsync.  Mechanisms need to be in place during the transition to […]