Technology

Cloud Support API: Building A “Red Button” For Creating Critical Cases
The Cymbal Group is a happy (and fictional) GCP premium support customer. They enjoy the benefits of being a premium support customer – access to a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM), 15 minute response time for P1 Technical support cases, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and now – access to the Cloud …

Software For Open Networking In The Cloud (SONiC) Moves To The Linux Foundation
Today, the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced the Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC, an open source networking operating system), is now part of the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation provides a venue for continued ecosystem, developer growth and diversity, as well as collaboration across the open …

Introducing Active Assist Recommendations For BigQuery Capacity Planning
BigQuery already offers highly flexible pricing models, such as the on-demand and flat-rate pricing for running queries, to meet the diverse needs of our users. Today, we’re excited to make it even easier for you to optimize BigQuery usage with new BigQuery slot recommendations powered by Active Assist, a part of Google Cloud’s AIOps solution …

Boosting Communication And Collaboration For Teams Of All Sizes In Google Workspace
One of the hopeful signs of a return to normalcy is seeing many of our customers make plans to come back into their offices. And they’re asking for strategies that will make hybrid work a more equitable and productive experience for everyone. At Google, we’re also beginning our own transition to hybrid work in early …

Google Cloud And SADA Are Helping Government Elevate The Citizen Experience
We’ve learned many things in the last two years – including the need for greater agility when it comes to delivering critical information and government services to citizens, especially during times of crisis. Government organizations understand this need more acutely than ever and are committed to elevating customer experience (CX) for the members of the …

Harris County Public Library Connects Communities With Chrome OS
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Megan LeMaster, Division Director for Research and Development and Ty Beachamp, Division Director for Information Technology, Harris County Public Library, which serves Harris County, Texas, including Houston. The library system launched HCPL Connected for Harris County residents, a community-wide internet connectivity campaign, providing 15,000 Chrome OS devices to underserved …

Automate Public Certificates Lifecycle Management Via RFC 8555 (ACME)
We’re excited to announce an enhancement of our preview of Certificate Manager which allows Google Cloud customers to acquire public certificates for their workloads that terminate TLS directly or for their cross-cloud and on-premise workloads. This is accomplished via the Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol which is the same protocol used by Certificate Authorities …

An Update On Google Cloud’s Commitments To E.U. Businesses In Light Of The New E.U.-U.S. Data Transfer Framework
Last week, the European Commission and U.S. Government agreed on a new E.U.-U.S. data transfer framework. Earlier today, Google shared that it welcomes these efforts by the U.S. government to enhance privacy protections for E.U. data and facilitate trusted transatlantic data flows. For our Google Cloud customers, we intend to make the protections offered by …

Voice Trading In The Cloud — Digital Transformation Of Private Wires
With our experience working with financial services customers, we recently partnered with a large interdealer broker to co-innovate on the modernization of their core voice trading infrastructure. Their motivation was simple: they wanted traders to be able to work remotely, make it easy to onboard new locations with resilience and scale, and to enable new …

Adani Group Accelerates Enterprise-Wide Digital Transformation Strategy With Google Cloud
AHMEDABAD, India, March 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Adani Group today announced a multi-year, cloud-first partnership with Google Cloud to power the next phase of innovation across India’s fastest-growing diversified business portfolio. Specifically, the strategic collaboration will tap each organization’s expertise across best-in-class infrastructure, technology, and industry solutions to modernize the Adani Group’s IT operations at scale. “The inevitability and pace …