Category : Google Cloud

Kubernetes wins OSCON Most Impact Award

By Paris Pittman, Kubernetes Community Manager, Google Today at the Open Source Awards at OSCON 2018, Kubernetes won the inaugural Most Impact Award, which recognizes a project that has had a ‘significant impact on how software is being written and...

VMware and Google Cloud: building the hybrid cloud together with vRealize Orchestrator

By Shan Kulandaivel, Product Manager, Google Compute Engine Many of our customers with hybrid cloud environments rely on VMware software on-premises. They want to simplify provisioning and enable end-user self service. At the same time, they also wa...

SRE fundamentals: SLIs, SLAs and SLOs

By Jay Judkowitz, Senior Product Manager and Mark Carter, Group Product Manager Next week at Google Cloud Next ‘18, you’ll be hearing about new ways to think about and ensure the availability of your applications. A big part of that is establishing...

Bringing GPU-accelerated analytics to GCP Marketplace with MapD

By Venkat Krishnamurthy, Vice President, Product, MapD Editor’s note: Today, we hear from our partner MapD, whose data analytics platform uses GPUs to accelerate queries and visualizations. Read on to learn how MapD and Google Cloud are working t...

Improving our account management policies to better support customers

By Ben Treynor Sloss, VP 24x7 Recently, a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customer blogged about an incident in June, in which a project they were running on Google Cloud Platform was suspended. We really appreciated the candid feedback, in which our cu...

Now shipping: ultramem machine types with up to 4TB of RAM

By Hanan Youssef, Product Manager Today we are announcing the general availability of Google Compute Engine “ultramem” memory-optimized machine types. You can provision ultramem VMs with up to 160 vCPUs and nearly 4TB of memory--the most vCPUs you c...

Introducing commercial Kubernetes applications in GCP Marketplace

By Anil Dhawan, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform Building, deploying and managing applications with Kubernetes comes with its own set of unique challenges. Today, we are excited to be the first major cloud provider to offer production-ready co...

Top storage and database sessions to check out at Next 2018

Whatever your particular area of cloud interest, there will be a lot to learn at Google Cloud Next ‘18 (July 24-26 in San Francisco). When it comes to cloud storage and databases, you’ll find useful sessions that can help you better understand your o...

Cloud Spanner adds import/export functionality to ease data movement

By Deepti Srivastava, Product Manager, Cloud Spanner We launched Cloud Spanner to general availability last year, and many of you shared in our excitement: You explored it, started proof-of-concept trials, and deployed apps. Perhaps most importantl...

Our Los Angeles cloud region is open for business

By Kirill Tropin, Product Manager Hey, LA — the day has arrived! The Los Angeles Google Cloud Platform region is officially open for business. You can now store data and build highly available, performant applications in Southern California. Los A...