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There’s a new subsea cable in town: Topaz, the first-ever fiber cable to connect Canada and Asia. Once complete, Topaz will run from Vancouver to the small town of Port Alberni on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, and across the Pacific Ocean to the prefectures
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Data is one of the most valuable assets in today’s digital economy. One way to unlock the value of your data is to give it life after it’s first collected. A transactional database, like Cloud Spanner, captures incremental changes to your data in real time, at scale, so
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Many organizations have been struggling with the complexity of their legacy databases. Unfortunately, they often find themselves locked into expensive licenses and restrictive contracts, which can limit their ability to modernize and introduce new functionality. Migrating to open-source databases, especially in the cloud, can solve many of these issues and
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At Google Cloud, we strive to offer a great customer experience for enterprises by building a robust and supported platform for running all Linux-based workloads. This mission is why we were one of the first cloud providers to offer purpose-built Rocky Linux images when Rocky Linux debuted last year as
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Today, we’re announcing the Database Migration Program, a new and stress-free approach to migrating existing open source and proprietary databases, whether on-premises or in the cloud, to Google Cloud’s industry-leading, managed database services. With the Database Migration Program, you benefit from assessments, tooling, best practices, and resources from
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The Canadian government鈥檚 security guidance for cloud environments outlines a standardized set of security controls to protect data and workloads in the cloud. The security guidance, known as the Security Control Profile for Cloud-based GC Services, also outlines security controls and profiles from a different publication, the IT Security Risk
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The volume of valuable data that organizations have to manage and analyze is growing at an incredible rate. This data is increasingly distributed across many locations, including data warehouses, data lakes, and NoSQL stores. As an organization’s data gets more complex and proliferates across disparate data environments, silos emerge,
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Stephanie Wong Global Lead, Developer Programs Fiber optic networks are a foundation of the modern internet. In fact, subsea cables carry 99% of international network traffic, and yet we are barely aware that they exist. What you might not know is that the first subsea cable was deployed in 1858
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Cloud Bigtable is a natural destination for Apache HBase workloads, as it is a fully managed service that is compatible with the HBase API. As a result, many customers running business-critical applications with large-scale data and low-latency needs consider migrating to Bigtable. However, migrating from HBase to Bigtable can still
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Splunk and Google Cloud customers, this one’s for you: The first Hands-on-Lab of Splunk on Google Cloud is now live and ready for enrollees. If you haven’t tried it yet, Google Cloud Skills Boost provides hands-on educational experiences so you can learn what you need to know about
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Apache Spark is now the de facto standard for data engineering, data exploration and machine learning. Just likeKubernetes (k8s), is for automating containerized application deployment, scaling, and management. The open source ecosystem is now converging towards utilizing k8s as the compute platform in addition to YARN. Today, we are announcing
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Developers and IT operations pros of all stripes come to Google Cloud to build modern, cloud-first and cloud-native applications. Here’s the latest from Google Cloud on everything app dev, containers, Kubernetes, DevOps, serverless and open source, all in one place. Week of Apr 11 - Apr 15, 2022 Listen
