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What’s The Future Of DevOps? You Tell Us. Take The 2023 Accelerate State Of DevOps Survey

For the past eight years, Google Cloud’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team has published the Accelerate State of DevOps Report. With input from over 33,000 professionals worldwide, the annual report provides an independent view into the practices and capabilities that organizations, irrespective of their size, industry, and region, can employ to drive better performance of their DevOps practices, and is the largest and longest running research of its kind. Today, the DORA team is inviting you to participate in the 2023 Accelerate State of DevOps survey, which we’ll use to produce our next report. Like with previous reports, our…
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Four Steps To Managing Your Cloud Logging Costs On A Budget

As part of our ongoing series on cost management for observability data in Google Cloud, we’re going to share four steps for getting the most out of your logs while on a budget. While we’ll focus on optimizing your costs within Google Cloud, we’ve found that this works with customers with infrastructure and logs on prem and in other clouds as well. Step 1: Analyze your current spending on logging tools To get started, create an itemized list of what volume of data is going where and what it costs. We’ll start with the billing report and the obvious line…
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Cloud Data Loss Prevention’s Sensitive Data Intelligence Service Is Now Available In Security Command Center

Our Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) discovery service can monitor and profile your data warehouse to bring awareness of where sensitive data is stored and processed. Profiling is also useful for confirming that data is not being stored and processed where you don’t want it.  But how can you make use of this intelligence within your existing security and governance workflows so you can reduce risk? Starting today, we have integrated Cloud DLP’s sensitive-data discovery service with Security Command Center, our platform-native security and risk management solution. By bringing together sensitive data intelligence with your security controls, security teams can…
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Policy Controller Dashboard: Now Available For All Anthos And GKE Environments

Customers using Kubernetes at scale need consistent guardrails for how resources are used across all their environments to improve their security, resource management and flexibility, and to achieve faster time-to-market and better operational efficiency.  At the same time, customers tell us they need an easy way to apply and view those policy guardrails, including enforcement status, violations and remediation recommendations for their fleet of clusters. In January 2023, we launched the Policy Controller dashboard along with out-of-the-box policy bundles. And now, the Policy Controller dashboard is available for all Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Anthos environments (i.e., on-premises, multi-cloud and attached clusters)…
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How To Easily Migrate Your Apps To Containers — Free Deep Dive And Workshop

Are you looking to migrate your applications to Google Cloud? Thinking about using containers for some of those apps? If so, you’re in luck! Google Cloud is hosting a free workshop on May 24th, 2023, that will teach you everything you need to know about migrating your app to containers in Google Cloud.  The workshop starts at 9AM PST and will be led by Google Cloud experts who will walk you through some of your migration options, the costs involved, and the security considerations. We’ll also feature a hands-on lab so you can get familiar with some of the tools…
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Best Practices For Monetizing Cloud-based Technology And 5G Networks

Leaders among Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are choosing to modernize on cloud to better monetize their 5G network investments. We are interested in learning how the industry, as a whole, is progressing on these initiatives. Are there best practices that can be shared? What are the primary challenges, and how are the more advanced CSPs overcoming them? These are the questions explored in a survey of executives at Tier 1, 2, and 3 CSPs from around the world, conducted by Heavy Reading and sponsored by Google Cloud. The results of this research are summarized in the whitepaper, Monetizing the Cloud-Based Network. …
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New Cloud Deploy Features Make Application Deployment Even More Efficient

Good practices alone aren’t enough to ship software regularly. You need good tools! There is no shortage of great tools for releasing software into production, but Cloud Deploy brings unique value to the table. Cloud Deploy is a fully managed, opinionated continuous delivery service that makes it faster and easier for you to consistently release software to runtimes like Google Kubernetes Engine and Cloud Run, and some exciting new features make it even more powerful. We were mindful of the developer experience right from the beginning as you are interacting with Cloud Deploy in the console. The GUI navigation experience is unambiguous —…
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Accelerate Smart Transformation To SAP S/4 HANA With Tata Consultancy Services Precast, Now For Google Cloud

The journey of any enterprise includes the transformation of processes related to presales, sales, procurement, service, production, quality, maintenance, warehousing, and finance operations, adhering to the principles of optimization and faster implementation. The goal is to create a uniform user experience, branching and connecting each enterprise function with minimal transformation effort. With a traditional approach, achieving this is not easy. Some of the other hurdles organizations face are: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) PreCast is an integrated business solution certified by SAP as a Qualified Partner Packaged solution (QPPS), leveraging SAP’s market leading software, best practices and innovations. Together with partner…
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Let’s Build A Windows Virtual Machine

reating a virtual machine (VM), a computer you can use without needing to purchase, set up, or keep around, is one of the most basic functions of the cloud.  You can rent as many computers as you need and delete them when you’re done with them. But VMs are only a benefit if setting up a virtual machine is easy.  In Google Cloud, creating a VM is done with the Compute Engine service.  There’s a short (about 5 minutes) interactive tutorial to get you started.  I’ll explain what’s going on in that tutorial here, but you should walk through the tutorial as well to…
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Using Cloud Spanner To Handle High Throughput Writes

Several social apps maintain feeds and allow users to upvote and share content through their social platforms. These votes and shares are tracked as “counters” in the backend database. This guide provides an array of choices to implement upvote and share counters using a Cloud Spanner database. This could be easily extended to track scores in a live game, managing inventory in retail, and several other applications across different industry verticals. Cloud Spanner as a relational database provides SQL semantics to empower all these solutions. It is built for scale and provides built-in sharding capability for large-scale business applications that would normally…
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