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TECH	Engadget Japanese	2018年11月9日、スライド式のカメラを装備した「OPPO Find X」が発売されました：今日は何の日？	https://japanese.engadget.com/today-203014375.html	oppofindx	2021-11-08 20:30:14
Program	[全てのタグ]の新着質問一覧｜teratail（テラテイル）	evalの代替え方法について	https://teratail.com/questions/368383?rss=all	evalを使用せずに作成したいので、調べてトライしましたが、うまくいきませんでした。	2021-11-09 06:00:07
Program	[全てのタグ]の新着質問一覧｜teratail（テラテイル）	PHP: データベース接続を拒否される原因が不明です...　解決策を教えてください	https://teratail.com/questions/368382?rss=all	PHPデータベース接続を拒否される原因が不明です解決策を教えてください開発環境などデバイスgtmacbooknbspairノートパソコン実行環境gtMMAP象のアイコンMySQL先gt私のサイト使用言語gtphp問題MMAPで以下のコードを実行しても、データベースへのアクセスが拒否されてうまくいきませんなぜでしょうかファイルの入力訂正後しっかりアップロードフォルダも更新しました。	2021-11-09 05:25:28
Program	[全てのタグ]の新着質問一覧｜teratail（テラテイル）	「class クラス名;」 の文法名、検索キーワード、を教えてください。	https://teratail.com/questions/368381?rss=all	OpenFrameworksというフレームワークのソース・コードの解読を試みているのですが、いきなり躓きました。	2021-11-09 05:22:59
海外TECH	Ars Technica	Biden’s “historic” $65 billion broadband plan approved by Congress	https://arstechnica.com/?p=1811216	monthly	2021-11-08 20:02:09
海外TECH	MakeUseOf	The 14 Best Websites for Christmas Wallpapers	https://www.makeuseof.com/best-christmas-wallpaper-websites/	christmas	2021-11-08 20:44:22
海外TECH	MakeUseOf	Which iPhone 13 Color Is Best for You?	https://www.makeuseof.com/which-iphone-13-color/	right	2021-11-08 20:15:23
海外TECH	DEV Community	Steve Jobs Tributary [Dark Mode] CSS Only	https://dev.to/ankitjhamahi07/steve-jobs-tributary-dark-mode-css-only-1f58	steve	2021-11-08 20:01:46
海外TECH	DEV Community	Build a Chatbot with PHP, MySQL and AJAX in 10 minutes	https://dev.to/ubahthebuilder/build-a-chatbot-with-php-mysql-and-ajax-in-10-minutes-583j	Build a Chatbot with PHP MySQL and AJAX in minutesHave you ever interacted with a chatbot to carry out some routine activity such as opening a bank account A chatbot is a software application which can simulate human like online conversations with a user In this tutorial we are going to build a simple chatbot which provides real time response to some common questions It also answers with a fallback message when an unaccounted question is asked The code for this project can be obtained from GitHub PrerequisitesTo build this you are required to know a bit of the following How to write basic PHP scriptsHow to write basic Javascript we ll use JS for making AJAX request You are also required to install either WampServer or XAMPP These distributions come bundled with services like Apache and MySQL If you don t know much about PHP and JavaScript then don t worry I ll try to explain each code block with lots of comments Without further ado let s dive in Create the bot pageFirst we create the html markup for the page Create a bot php and create the boilerplate HTML in it You can generate HTML boilerplate with Emmet by typing followed by enter After creating the boilerplate code we will go ahead to create the markup for the chat page which goes inside the lt body gt tags NOTE You can learn more about emmet shortcut commands from my Emmet article lt div id bot gt lt div id container gt lt div id header gt Online Chatbot App lt div gt lt div id body gt lt This section will be dynamically inserted from JavaScript gt lt div class userSection gt lt div class messages user message gt lt div gt lt div class seperator gt lt div gt lt div gt lt div class botSection gt lt div class messages bot reply gt lt div gt lt div class seperator gt lt div gt lt div gt lt div gt lt div id inputArea gt lt input type text name messages id userInput placeholder Please enter your message here required gt lt input type submit id send value Send gt lt div gt lt div gt lt div gt The page is made up of three broad sections the header the body and the input area All are enclosed inside a container which itself is inside of the main bot page The header area holds the heading text for the chat app The body section will hold all the messages from both the user and the bot These messages will be dynamically generated from the database and inserted into the page using JavaScript The input area holds the input form which is how user messages will be collected from the front end Style up the pageHere goes the styling for the whole page import url display swap Center body contents both horizontally and vertically body margin padding display flex align items center justify content center font family Rubik sans serif Style the outer container Centralize contents both horizontally and vertically bot margin px height px width px background white display flex align items center justify content center box shadow px px px rgba border radius px Make container slightly rounded Set height and width to percent of bots container height border radius px width background FFF Style header section header width height border radius px background BF color white text align center font size rem padding top px box shadow px px px rgba Style body body width height background color FFF overflow y auto Style container for user messages userSection width Seperates user message from bot reply seperator width height px General styling for all messages messages max width margin rem font size rem padding rem border radius px Targeted styling for just user messages user message margin top rem text align left background BF color white float left Targeted styling for just bot messages bot reply text align right background EEEB margin top rem float right color black box shadow px px px rgba Style the input area inputArea display flex align items center justify content center height padding rem background transparent Style the text input userInput height px width background color white border radius px padding rem font size rem border none outline none box shadow px px px rgba Style send button send height px padding rem font size rem text align center width color white background BF cursor pointer border none border radius px box shadow px px px rgba Create the query script in PHP In this section we will create the PHP script responsible for handling AJAX requests connecting to the database and retrieving corresponding reply Before proceeding we can go on and change out HTML file to php So if you named your page bot html you can change it to bot php Now please proceed to create a new php file and type the following code into it lt php Establishes a connection with database First argument is the server name second is the username for database third is password blank for me and final is the database name conn mysqli connect localhost root onlinebot If connection is established succesfullyif conn Get users message from request object and escape characters user messages mysqli real escape string conn POST messageValue create SQL query for retrieving corresponding reply query SELECT FROM chatbot WHERE messages LIKE user messages Execute query on connected database using the SQL query makeQuery mysqli query conn query if mysqli num rows makeQuery gt Get result result mysqli fetch assoc makeQuery Echo only the response column echo result response else Otherwise echo this message echo Sorry I can t understand you else If connection fails to establish echo an error message echo Connection failed mysqli connect errno gt From the front end we will make POST AJAX queries to this script Create chatbot replies in MySQL databaseThe PHP script is ready Next step is to add messages to the database With WAMP and XAMPP you have access to the phpMyAdmin GUI tool which helps you manage your database in an easy way To open it use the following link http localhost phpmyadmin index php You will be prompted to input your username password and database which by default are root blank and MySQL respectively Once inside create a new database using whatever name you prefer Then create a table within the database Proceed to create the following fields in it id auto incrementing This holds the unique id for each recordmessages This is the field for user messagesreplies This is the field for all corresponding repliesTry to add as many messages as possible to make it more fun Your table should look similar to this Make AJAX request from JavaScript and insert messagesWith all the data present in the database and the PHP script written the last step would be to make the AJAX request from our front end and insert new messages from both the user and bot all using JavaScript Inside your front end code bot html open a script tag and write the following scripts lt script type text javascript gt When send button gets clicked document querySelector send addEventListener click async gt create new request object get user message let xhr new XMLHttpRequest var userMessage document querySelector userInput value create html to hold user message let userHtml lt div class userSection gt lt div class messages user message gt userMessage lt div gt lt div class seperator gt lt div gt lt div gt insert user message into the page document querySelector body innerHTML userHtml open a post request to server script pass user message as parameter xhr open POST query php xhr setRequestHeader Content type application x www form urlencoded xhr send messageValue userMessage When response is returned get reply text into HTML and insert in page xhr onload function let botHtml lt div class botSection gt lt div class messages bot reply gt this responseText lt div gt lt div class seperator gt lt div gt lt div gt document querySelector body innerHTML botHtml lt script gt Now when the send button is clicked the users message is first retrieved and inserted into the page Then an AJAX request is sent to the server script to retrieve the corresponding reply When the server responds the response text bot reply is then inserted into the page ConclusionTutorials are awesome for learning how to code Here we built a chatbot with some CSS styling made front end AJAX calls with JavaScript handled queries a with PHP script and stored all messages in a MySQL database Hopefully the whole tutorial didn t exceed minutes Let me know your thoughts in the comments Links Twitter JavaScript Ebook Buy Me A Coffee	2021-11-08 20:01:31
Apple	AppleInsider - Frontpage News	Compared: AirPods vs AirPods Pro vs Beats Fit Pro	https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/11/08/compared-airpods-vs-airpods-pro-vs-beats-fit-pro?utm_medium=rss	Compared AirPods vs AirPods Pro vs Beats Fit ProThe new Beats Fit Pro offer Active Noise Cancellation in a package that s cheaper than the AirPods Pro Here s how they fare against the AirPods Pro and its lower priced stablemate AirPods AirPods AirPods Pro and Beats Fit ProFall has been a quite active period for Apple s audio products with the third generation AirPods nearing the AirPods Pro in terms of features but still missing out on Active Noise Cancellation Read more	2021-11-08 20:14:24
Apple	AppleInsider - Frontpage News	How to add PCI-E cards to your new MacBook Pro	https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/11/08/how-to-add-pci-e-expansion-to-your-new-macbook-pro?utm_medium=rss	How to add PCI E cards to your new MacBook ProWhile you can t jam a PCI E card inside your MacBook Pro you can still add cards to expand its capabilities by using Thunderbolt Here s what you need to do and the best enclosures to get the job done Apple s MacBook Pro lineup has undergone many changes in its latest refresh with the inch MacBook Pro and inch MacBook Pro providing considerable computing power in a highly portable package With the new MacBook Pro models using the M Pro and M Max system on chips the performance is high enough to outpace that of some entry level Mac Pro desktops While that does make the MacBook Pro a cheaper and more attractive option than the Mac Pro the desktop workstation still reigns supreme in one area upgrades Read more	2021-11-08 20:19:39
海外TECH	Engadget	It took Peloton until 2021 to add a pause button	https://www.engadget.com/peloton-bike-plus-pause-button-tread-205410305.html?src=rss	It took Peloton until to add a pause buttonSomehow Peloton has not offered users a way to pause on demand classes until this very moment in time At long last a pause button is rolling out on Bike and Bike So if you need to take a break for any reason you can come back and finish your workout later To pause a workout tap the screen and hold the pause button for a moment You ll still appear in the Here Now section and others can send you encouraging high fives while your workout is paused but you will lose your spot on the leaderboard for that class So if you re a hyper competitive Peloton user perhaps the pause button isn t for you That said pausing a workout doesn t have any impact on other aspects of your Peloton progress including programs challenges achievements streaks milestones and personal records For what it s worth Peloton says it hopes that quot this feature is everything you imagine quot However it won t work on live workouts ーit s not like pausing live TV The pause button will come to Tread devices in the future	2021-11-08 20:54:10
海外科学	NYT > Science	NASA's SpaceX Crew-2: Watch Live Undocking Video Stream	https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/science/spacex-undocking-nasa.html	florida	2021-11-08 20:34:15
海外科学	NYT > Science	She Died With Long Covid. Should Her Organs Have Been Donated?	https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/07/health/covid-organ-transplants.html	donation	2021-11-08 20:08:35
ニュース	BBC News - Home	Boy, 10, dies after being attacked by a dog in Caerphilly	https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59215417?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA	caerphillythe	2021-11-08 20:31:52
ニュース	BBC News - Home	Brecon Beacons: Man rescued from cave after two days	https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59203695?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA	longest	2021-11-08 20:50:13
ニュース	BBC News - Home	Poland blocks hundreds of migrants at Belarus border	https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59206685?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA	belarus	2021-11-08 20:26:34
ビジネス	ダイヤモンド・オンライン - 新着記事	ソニー、アップル、アマゾン…「電力業界の序列」をかつての上客がぶち壊す理由 - 新・グリーンエネルギー戦争	https://diamond.jp/articles/-/286476	顧客	2021-11-09 05:25:00
ビジネス	ダイヤモンド・オンライン - 新着記事	「本当に信頼できる」動物病院ランキング【西日本編】獣医師が選定！2位岐阜大動物病院、1位は？ - 動物病院の最前線	https://diamond.jp/articles/-/286484	動物病院	2021-11-09 05:20:00
ビジネス	ダイヤモンド・オンライン - 新着記事	産近甲龍・関西大「主要400社就職率」ランキング！日銀に採用された強者も - MARCH・関関同立に下克上なるか!?日東駒専＆産近甲龍	https://diamond.jp/articles/-/285958	march	2021-11-09 05:15:00
ビジネス	ダイヤモンド・オンライン - 新着記事	日本の動物病院が「買収の標的」に、北米で1000院運営の黒船が札束握って襲来 - 動物病院の最前線	https://diamond.jp/articles/-/286483	動物病院	2021-11-09 05:10:00
ビジネス	ダイヤモンド・オンライン - 新着記事	三菱グループは、戦後なぜ日本最大の企業集団になったのか - 三菱グループの研究	https://diamond.jp/articles/-/285241	三菱グループ	2021-11-09 05:05:00
ビジネス	電通報 | 広告業界動向とマーケティングのコラム・ニュース	LIVE BOARDで見る「プログラマティックOOH」の今	https://dentsu-ho.com/articles/7958	liveboard	2021-11-09 06:00:00
ビジネス	電通報 | 広告業界動向とマーケティングのコラム・ニュース	アスリートブレーンズ為末大の「緩急自在」vol.14	https://dentsu-ho.com/articles/7925	緩急自在	2021-11-09 06:00:00
北海道	北海道新聞	コロナ感染、２億５千万人超　ＷＨＯ、警戒呼び掛け	https://www.hokkaido-np.co.jp/article/609438/	集計	2021-11-09 05:12:00
北海道	北海道新聞	新しい資本主義　格差是正には力不足だ	https://www.hokkaido-np.co.jp/article/609407/	岸田文雄	2021-11-09 05:01:00
ビジネス	東洋経済オンライン	無印良品が｢店長育成｣で大改革に踏み切る事情 ｢やるべきことをやったら100点｣から脱却する | 専門店･ブランド･消費財 | 東洋経済オンライン	https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/467456?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=http&utm_campaign=link_back	東洋経済オンライン	2021-11-09 05:30:00
ニュース	THE BRIDGE	MasterCard、アジア太平洋地域で仮想通貨決済カードをローンチ	http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SdJapan/~3/rQcEQ92OVAM/mastercard-launches-crypto-payment-cards-asia-pacific	MasterCard、アジア太平洋地域で仮想通貨決済カードをローンチTechinAsiaでは、有料購読サービスを提供。	2021-11-08 20:15:06
GCP	Cloud Blog	What’s new with Google Cloud	https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/whats-new-google-cloud/	What s new with Google CloudWant to know the latest from Google Cloud Find it here in one handy location Check back regularly for our newest updates announcements resources events learning opportunities and more  Tip  Not sure where to find what you re looking for on the Google Cloud blog Start here  Google Cloud blog Full list of topics links and resources Week of Nov Nov New study on the economics of cloud migration The Total Economic ImpactOf Migrating Expensive Operating Systems and Traditional Software to Google Cloud We worked with Forrester on this study which details the cost savings and benefits you can achieve from migrating and modernizing with Google Cloud especially with respect to expensive operating systems and traditional software Download now New whitepaper on building a successful cloud migration strategy The priority to move into the cloud and achieve a zero data center footprint is becoming top of mind for many CIOs One of the most fundamental changes required to accelerate a move to the cloud is the adoption of a product mindsetーthe shift from an emphasis on project to product Download “Accelerating the journey to the cloud with a product mindset now Related ArticleLive from COP A cloud s eye viewGoogle sustainability experts bring their perspective on developments from the UN Climate Change Conference or COP Read ArticleWeek of Nov Nov Time to live TTL reduces storage costs improves query performance and simplifies data retention in Cloud Spanner by automatically removing unneeded data based on user defined policies Unlike custom scripts or application code TTL is fully managed and designed for minimal impact on other workloads TTL is generally available today in Spanner at no additional cost Read more New whitepaper available Migrating to NET Core on Google Cloud This free whitepaper written for NET developers and software architects who want to modernize their NET Framework applications outlines the benefits and things to consider when migrating NET Framework apps to NET Core running on Google Cloud It also offers a framework with suggestions to help you build a strategy for migrating to a fully managed Kubernetes offering or to Google serverless Download the free whitepaper Export from Google Cloud Storage Storage Transfer Service now offers Preview support for exporting data from Cloud Storage to any POSIX file system You can use this bidirectional data movement capability to move data in and out of Cloud Storage on premises clusters and edge locations including Google Distributed Cloud The service provides built in capabilities such as scheduling bandwidth management retries and data integrity checks that simplifies the data transfer workflow For more information see Download data from Cloud Storage Document Translation is now GA Translate documents in real time in languages and retain document formatting Learn more about new features and see a demo on how Eli Lilly translates content globally Announcing the general availability of Cloud Asset Inventory console We re excited to announce the general availability of the new Cloud Asset Inventory user interface In addition to all the capabilities announced earlier in Public Preview the general availability release provides powerful search and easy filtering capabilities These capabilities enable you to view details of resources and IAM policies machine type and policy statistics and insights into your overall cloud footprint Learn more about these new capabilities by using the searching resources and searching IAM policies guides You can get more information about Cloud Asset Inventory using our product documentation Related ArticleAs email turns the symbol continues to fuel collaborationAs email turns we look at where it s been and where the symbol is headed next Read ArticleWeek of Oct Oct BigQuery table snapshots are now generally available A table snapshot is a low cost read only copy of a table s data as it was at a particular time By establishing a robust value measurement approach to track and monitor the business value metrics toward business goals we are bringing technology finance and business leaders together through the discipline of Cloud FinOps to show how digital transformation is enabling the organization to create new innovative capabilities and generate top line revenue Learn more We ve announced BigQuery Omni a new multicloud analytics service that allows data teams to perform cross cloud analytics across AWS Azure and Google Cloud all from one viewpoint Learn how BigQuery Omni works and what data and business challenges it solves here Related ArticleHere s what you missed at Next Too much to take in at Google Cloud Next No worries here s a breakdown of the biggest announcements at the day event Read ArticleWeek of Oct Oct Available now are our newest TD VMs family based on rd Generation AMD EPYC processors Learn more In case you missed it ーtop AI announcements from Google Cloud Next Catch up on what s new see demos and hear from our customers about how Google Cloud is making AI more accessible more focused on business outcomes and fast tracking the time to value Too much to take in at Google Cloud Next No worries here s a breakdown of the biggest announcements at the day event Check out the second revision of Architecture Framework Google Cloud s collection of canonical best practices Related ArticleSolving for What s NextExciting announcements customer stories and technical deep dives headline this year s Google Cloud Next Thomas Kurian reveals the late Read ArticleWeek of Oct Oct We re excited to announce Google Cloud s new goal of equipping more than million people with Google Cloud skills To help achieve this goal we re offering no cost access to all our training content this month Find out more here  Support for language repositories in Artifact Registry is now generally available Artifact Registry allows you to store all your language specific artifacts in one place Supported package types include Java Node and Python Additionally support for Linux packages is in public preview Learn more Want to know what s the latest with Google ML Powered intelligence service Active Assist and how to learn more about it at Next Check out this blog Related ArticleGoogle Workspace at Next sessions you don t want to missThe best sessions product demos and announcements for Google Workspace at Google Cloud Next Read ArticleWeek of Sept Oct Announcing the launch of Speaker ID In customer preference for voice calls increased by percentage points to and was by far the most preferred service channel But most callers still need to pass through archaic authentication processes which slows down the time to resolution and burns through valuable agent time Speaker ID from Google Cloud brings ML based speaker identification directly to customers and contact center partners allowing callers to authenticate over the phone using their own voice  Learn more Your guide to all things AI amp ML at Google Cloud Next Google Cloud Next is coming October and if you re interested in AI amp ML we ve got you covered Tune in to hear about real use cases from companies like Twitter Eli Lilly Wayfair and more We re also excited to share exciting product news and hands on AI learning opportunities  Learn more about AI at Next and register for free today It is now simple to use Terraform to configure Anthos features on your GKE clusters Check out part two of this series which explores adding Policy Controller audits to our Config Sync managed cluster  Learn more Related ArticleNew research from Google Cloud reveals five innovation trends for market dataNew research from Google Cloud reveals five innovation trends for market dataRead ArticleWeek of Sept Sept Announcing the webinar Powering market data through cloud and AI ML  We re sponsoring a Coalition Greenwich webinar on September rd where we ll discuss the findings of our upcoming study on how market data delivery and consumption is being transformed by cloud and AI Moderated by Coalition Greenwich the panel will feature Trey Berre from CME Group Brad Levy from Symphony and Ulku Rowe representing Google Cloud  Register here New research from Google Cloud reveals five innovation trends for market data Together with Coalition Greenwich we surveyed exchanges trading systems data aggregators data producers asset managers hedge funds and investment banks to examine both the distribution and consumption of market data and trading infrastructure in the cloud Learn more about our findings here If you are looking for a more automated way to manage quotas over a high number of projects we are excited to introduce a Quota Monitoring Solution from Google Cloud Professional Services This solution benefits customers who have many projects or organizations and are looking for an easy way to monitor the quota usage in a single dashboard and use default alerting capabilities across all quotas Related ArticleThe new Google Cloud region in Toronto is now openGoogle Cloud now has two regions in Canada one in Montreal and another in Toronto providing customers with enhanced choice and data so Read ArticleWeek of Sept Sept New storage features help ensure data is never lost  We are announcing extensions to our popular Cloud Storage offering and introducing two new services Filestore Enterprise and Backup for Google Kubernetes Engine GKE Together these new capabilities will make it easier for you to protect your data out of the box across a wide variety of applications and use cases Read the full article API management powers sustainable resource management Water waste and energy solutions company Veolia uses APIs and API Management platform Apigee to build apps and help their customers build their own apps too Learn from their digital and API first approach here To support our expanding customer base in Canada we re excited to announce that the new Google Cloud Platform region in Toronto is now open Toronto is the th Google Cloud region connected via our high performance network helping customers better serve their users and customers throughout the globe In combination with Montreal customers now benefit from improved business continuity planning with distributed secure infrastructure needed to meet IT and business requirements for disaster recovery while maintaining data sovereignty Cloud SQL now supports custom formatting controls for CSVs When performing admin exports and imports users can now select custom characters for field delimiters quotes escapes and other characters For more information see our documentation Related ArticleSqlcommenter now extending the vision of OpenTelemetry to databasesTroubleshooting database performance issues just got easier with better observability through Sqlcommenter and Opentelemetry Read ArticleWeek of Sept Sept Hear how Lowe s SRE was able to reduce their Mean Time to Recovery MTTR by over after adopting Google s Site Reliability Engineering practices and Google Cloud s operations suite Related ArticleGoogle invests billion euros in Germany s digital futureGoogle is supporting Germany s transition to a digital and sustainable economy investing billion euros in digital infrastructure and c Read ArticleWeek of  Aug Sept A what s new blog in the what s new blog Yes you read that correctly Google Cloud data engineers are always hard at work maintaining the hundreds of dataset pipelines that feed into our public datasets repository but they re also regularly bringing new ones into the mix Check out our newest featured datasets and catch a few best practices in our living blog What are the newest datasets in Google Cloud Migration success with Operational Health Reviews from Google Cloud s Professional Service Organization Learn how Google Cloud s Professional Services Org is proactively and strategically guiding customers to operate effectively and efficiently in the Cloud both during and after their migration process Learn how we simplified monitoring for Google Cloud VMware Engine and Google Cloud operations suite Read more Related ArticleCelebrating Women s Equality Day with Google CloudIn honor of Women s Equality Day Google Cloud celebrates women in cloud and business technology at Google and beyond Read ArticleWeek of Aug Aug Google Transfer Appliance announces preview of online mode Customers are increasingly collecting data that needs to quickly be transferred to the cloud Transfer Appliances are being used to quickly offload data from sources e g cameras cars sensors and can now stream that data to a Cloud Storage bucket Online mode can be toggled as data is copied into the appliance and either send the data offline by shipping the appliance to Google or copy data to Cloud Storage over the network Read more Topic retention for Cloud Pub Sub is now Generally Available Topic retention is the most comprehensive and flexible way available to retain Pub Sub messages for message replay In addition to backing up all subscriptions connected to the topic new subscriptions can now be initialized from a timestamp in the past Learn more about the feature here Vertex Predictions now supports private endpoints for online prediction Through VPC Peering Private Endpoints provide increased security and lower latency when serving ML models Read more Related ArticleNew study available Modernize with AIOps to maximize your impactIn this commissioned study Forrester Consulting explores how organizations are using AI Ops in their cloud environments Read ArticleWeek of Aug Aug Look for us to take security one step further by adding authorization features for service to service communications for gRPC proxyless services as well as to support other deployment models where proxyless gRPC services are running somewhere other than GKE for example Compute Engine We hope you ll join us and check out the setup guide and give us feedback Cloud Run now supports VPC Service Controls You can now protect your Cloud Run services against data exfiltration by using VPC Service Controls in conjunction with Cloud Run s ingress and egress settings Read more Read how retailers are leveraging Google Cloud VMware Engine to move their on premises applications to the cloud where they can achieve the scale intelligence and speed required to stay relevant and competitive Read more A series of new features for BeyondCorp Enterprise our zero trust offering We now offer native support for client certificates for eight types of VPC SC resources We are also announcing general availability of the on prem connector which allows users to secure HTTP or HTTPS based on premises applications outside of Google Cloud Additionally three new BeyondCorp attributes are available in Access Context Manager as part of a public preview Customers can configure custom access policies based on time and date credential strength and or Chrome browser attributes Read more about these announcements here We are excited to announce that Google Cloud working with its partners NAG and DDN demonstrated the highest performing Lustre file system on the IO ranking of the fastest HPC storage systems ーquite a feat considering Lustre is one of the most widely deployed HPC file systems in the world  Read the full article The Storage Transfer Service for on premises data API is now available in Preview Now you can use RESTful APIs to automate your on prem to cloud transfer workflows  Storage Transfer Service is a software service to transfer data over a network The service provides built in capabilities such as scheduling bandwidth management retries and data integrity checks that simplifies the data transfer workflow It is now simple to use Terraform to configure Anthos features on your GKE clusters This is the first part of the part series that describes using Terraform to enable Config Sync  For platform administrators  this natural IaC approach improves auditability and transparency and reduces risk of misconfigurations or security gaps Read more In this commissioned study “Modernize With AIOps To Maximize Your Impact Forrester Consulting surveyed organizations worldwide to better understand how they re approaching artificial intelligence for IT operations AIOps in their cloud environments and what kind of benefits they re seeing Read more If your organization or development environment has strict security policies which don t allow for external IPs it can be difficult to set up a connection between a Private Cloud SQL instance and a Private IP VM This article contains clear instructions on how to set up a connection from a private Compute Engine VM to a private Cloud SQL instance using a private service connection and the mysqlsh command line tool Related ArticleNew Research COVID accelerates innovation in healthcare but tech adoption still lagsGoogle Cloud and Harris Poll healthcare research reveals COVID impacts on healthcare technologyRead ArticleWeek of Aug Aug Compute Engine users have a new updated set of VM level “in context metrics charts and logs to correlate signals for common troubleshooting scenarios across CPU Disk Memory Networking and live Processes  This brings the best of Google Cloud s operations suite directly to the Compute Engine UI Learn more ​​Pub Sub to Splunk Dataflow template has been updatedto address multiple enterprise customer asks from improved compatibility with Splunk Add on for Google Cloud Platform to more extensibility with user defined functions UDFs and general pipeline reliability enhancements to tolerate failures like transient network issues when delivering data to Splunk Read more to learn about how to take advantage of these latest features Read more Google Cloud and NVIDIA have teamed up to make VR AR workloads easier faster to create and tetherless Read more Register for the Google Cloud Startup Summit September at goo gle StartupSummit for a digital event filled with inspiration learning and discussion This event will bring together our startup and VC community to discuss the latest trends and insights headlined by a keynote by Astro Teller Captain of Moonshots at X the moonshot factory Additionally learn from a variety of technical and business sessions to help take your startup to the next level Google Cloud and Harris Poll healthcare research reveals COVID impacts on healthcare technology Learn more Partial SSO is now available for public preview If you use a rd party identity provider to single sign on into Google services Partial SSO allows you to identify a subset of your users to use Google Cloud Identity as your SAML SSO identity provider short video and demo Related ArticleGoogle named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services againGartner named Google Cloud a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services formerly Infrastructure as Read ArticleWeek of Aug Aug Gartner named Google Cloud a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services formerly Infrastructure as a Service Learn more Private Service Connect is now generally available Private Service Connect lets you create private and secure connections to Google Cloud and third party services with service endpoints in your VPCs  Read more migration guides designed to help you identify the best ways to migrate which include meeting common organizational goals like minimizing time and risk during your migration identifying the most enterprise grade infrastructure for your workloads picking a cloud that aligns with your organization s sustainability goals and more Read more Related ArticleThe new Google Cloud region in Melbourne is now openThe new Google Cloud region in Melbourne adds a second region to Australia supporting economic growth in the region Read ArticleWeek of Jul Jul This week we hosting our Retail amp Consumer Goods Summit a digital event dedicated to helping leading retailers and brands digitally transform their business Read more about our consumer packaged goods strategy and a guide to key summit content for brands in this blog from Giusy Buonfantino Google Cloud s Vice President of CPG We re hosting our Retail amp Consumer Goods Summit a digital event dedicated to helping leading retailers and brands digitally transform their business Read more See how IKEA uses Recommendations AI to provide customers with more relevant product information  Read more ​​Google Cloud launches a career program for people with autism designed to hire and support more talented people with autism in the rapidly growing cloud industry  Learn moreGoogle Cloud follows new API stability tenets that work to minimize unexpected deprecations to our Enterprise APIs  Read more Related ArticleRegistration is open for Google Cloud Next October Register now for Google Cloud Next on October Read ArticleWeek of Jul Jul Register and join us for Google Cloud Next October at g co CloudNext for a fresh approach to digital transformation as well as a few surprises Next will be a fully customizable digital adventure for a more personalized learning journey Find the tools and training you need to succeed From live interactive Q amp As and informative breakout sessions to educational demos and real life applications of the latest tech from Google Cloud Get ready to plug into your cloud community get informed and be inspired Together we can tackle today s greatest business challenges and start solving for what s next Application Innovation takes a front row seat this year To stay ahead of rising customer expectations and the digital and in person hybrid landscape enterprises must know what application innovation means and how to deliver this type of innovation with a small piece of technology that might surprise you Learn more about the three pillars of app innovation here We announced Cloud IDS our new network security offering which is now available in preview Cloud IDS delivers easy to use cloud native managed network based threat detection With Cloud IDS customers can enjoy a Google Cloud integrated experience built with Palo Alto Networks industry leading threat detection technologies to provide high levels of security efficacy Learn more Key Visualizer for Cloud Spanner is now generally available Key Visualizer is a new interactive monitoring tool that lets developers and administrators analyze usage patterns in Spanner It reveals trends and outliers in key performance and resource metrics for databases of any size helping to optimize queries and reduce infrastructure costs See it in action The market for healthcare cloud is projected to grow This means a need for better tech infrastructure digital transformation amp Cloud tools Learn how Google Cloud Partner Advantage partners help customers solve business challenges in healthcare Related ArticleThe new Google Cloud region in Delhi NCR is now openThe Google Cloud region in Delhi NCR is now open for business ready to host your workloads Read ArticleWeek of Jul Jul Simplify VM migrations with Migrate for Compute Engine as a Service delivers a Google managed cloud service that enables simple frictionless and large scale enterprise migrations of virtual machines to Google Compute Engine with minimal downtime and risk API driven and integrated into your Google Cloud console for ease of use this service uses agent less replication to copy data without manual intervention and without VPN requirements It also enables you to launch non disruptive validations of your VMs prior to cutover  Rapidly migrate a single application or execute a sprint with hundred systems using migration groups with confidence Read more here The Google Cloud region in Delhi NCR is now open for business ready to host your workloads Learn more and watch the region launch event here Introducing Quilkin the open source game server proxy Developed in collaboration with Embark Studios Quilkin is an open source UDP proxy tailor made for high performance real time multiplayer games Read more We re making Google Glass on Meet available to a wider network of global customers Learn more Transfer Appliance supports Google Managed Encryption Keys ーWe re announcing the support for Google Managed Encryption Keys with Transfer Appliance this is in addition to the currently available Customer Managed Encryption Keys feature Customers have asked for the Transfer Appliance service to create and manage encryption keys for transfer sessions to improve usability and maintain security The Transfer Appliance Service can now manage the encryption keys for the customers who do not wish to handle a key themselves Learn more about Using Google Managed Encryption Keys UCLA builds a campus wide API program With Google Cloud s API management platform Apigee UCLA created a unified and strong API foundation that removes data friction that students faculty and administrators alike face This foundation not only simplifies how various personas connect to data but also encourages more innovations in the future Learn their story An enhanced region picker makes it easy to choose a Google Cloud region with the lowest CO output  Learn more Amwell and Google Cloud explore five ways telehealth can help democratize access to healthcare  Read more Major League Baseball and Kaggle launch ML competition to learn about fan engagement  Batter up We re rolling out general support of Brand Indicators for Message Identification BIMI in Gmail within Google Workspace Learn more Learn how DeNA Sports Business created an operational status visualization system that helps determine whether live event attendees have correctly installed Japan s coronavirus contact tracing app COCOA Google Cloud CAS provides a highly scalable and available private CA to address the unprecedented growth in certificates in the digital world Read more about CAS Related ArticleCloser to the action Call of Duty League and Google Cloud deliver new feature for esports fansGoogle Cloud and Call of Duty League launch ActivStat to bring fans players and commentators the power of competitive statistics in rea Read ArticleWeek of Jul Jul Google Cloud and Call of Duty League launch ActivStat to bring fans players and commentators the power of competitive statistics in real time Read more Building applications is a heavy lift due to the technical complexity which includes the complexity of backend services that are used to manage and store data Firestore alters this by having Google Cloud manage your backend complexity through a complete backend as a service Learn more Google Cloud s new Native App Development skills challenge lets you earn badges that demonstrate your ability to create cloud native apps Read more and sign up Related ArticleAT amp T Android customers to have Messages app by defaultMessages by Google is now the default messaging app for all AT amp T customers using Android phones in the United States Read ArticleWeek of Jun Jul Storage Transfer Service now offers preview support for Integration with AWS Security Token Service Security conscious customers can now use Storage Transfer Service to perform transfers from AWS S without passing any security credentials This release will alleviate the security burden associated with passing long term AWS S credentials which have to be rotated or explicitly revoked when they are no longer needed Read more The most popular and surging Google Search terms are now available in BigQuery as a public dataset View the Top and Top rising queries from Google Trends from the past days including years of historical data across the Designated Market Areas DMAs in the US Learn more A new predictive autoscaling capability lets you add additional Compute Engine VMs in anticipation of forecasted demand Predictive autoscaling is generally available across all Google Cloud regions Read more or consult the documentation for more information on how to configure simulate and monitor predictive autoscaling Messages by Google is now the default messaging app for all AT amp T customers using Android phones in the United States Read more TPU v Pods will soon be available on Google Cloud providing the most powerful publicly available computing platform for machine learning training Learn more Cloud SQL for SQL Server has addressed multiple enterprise customer asks with the GA releases of both SQL Server and Active Directory integration as well as the Preview release of Cross Region Replicas  This set of releases work in concert to allow customers to set up a more scalable and secure managed SQL Server environment to address their workloads needs Read more Related ArticleHow HBO Max uses reCAPTCHA Enterprise to make its customer experience frictionlessBalancing product marketing customer and security needs without slowing down signups Read ArticleWeek of Jun Jun Simplified return to office with no code technology We ve just released a solution to your most common return to office headaches make a no code app customized to solve your business specific challenges Learn how to create an automated app where employees can see office room occupancy check what desks are reserved or open review disinfection schedules and more in this blog tutorial New technical validation whitepaper for running ecommerce applicationsーEnterprise Strategy Group s analyst outlines the challenges of organizations running ecommerce applications and how Google Cloud helps to mitigate those challenges and handle changing demands with global infrastructure solutions Download the whitepaper The fullagendafor Google for Games Developer Summit on July th th is now available A free digital event with announcements from teams including Stadia Google Ads AdMob Android Google Play Firebase Chrome YouTube and Google Cloud Hear more about how Google Cloud technology creates opportunities for gaming companies to make lasting enhancements for players and creatives Register at g co gamedevsummitBigQuery row level security is now generally available giving customers a way to control access to subsets of data in the same table for different groups of users Row level security RLS extends the principle of least privilege access and enables fine grained access control policies in BigQuery tables BigQuery currently supports access controls at the project dataset table and column level Adding RLS to the portfolio of access controls now enables customers to filter and define access to specific rows in a table based on qualifying user conditionsーproviding much needed peace of mind for data professionals Transfer from Azure ADLS Gen Storage Transfer Service offers Preview support for transferring data from Azure ADLS Gen to Google Cloud Storage Take advantage of a scalable serverless service to handle data transfer Read more reCAPTCHA V and V customers can now migrate site keys to reCAPTCHA Enterprise in under minutes and without making any code changes Watch our Webinar to learn more  Bot attacks are the biggest threat to your business that you probably haven t addressed yet Check out our Forbes article to see what you can do about it Related ArticleNew Tau VMs deliver leading price performance for scale out workloadsCompute Engine s new Tau VMs based on AMD EPYC processors provide leading price performance for scale out workloads on an x based archi Read ArticleWeek of Jun Jun A new VM family for scale out workloadsーNew AMD based Tau VMs offer higher absolute performance and higher price performance compared to general purpose VMs from any of the leading public cloud vendors Learn more New whitepaper helps customers plot their cloud migrationsーOur new whitepaper distills the conversations we ve had with CIOs CTOs and their technical staff into several frameworks that can help cut through the hype and the technical complexity to help devise the strategy that empowers both the business and IT Read more or download the whitepaper Ubuntu Pro lands on Google CloudーThe general availability of Ubuntu Pro images on Google Cloud gives customers an improved Ubuntu experience expanded security coverage and integration with critical Google Cloud features Read more Navigating hybrid work with a single connected experience in Google WorkspaceーNew additions to Google Workspace help businesses navigate the challenges of hybrid work such as Companion Mode for Google Meet calls Read more Arab Bank embraces Google Cloud technologyーThis Middle Eastern bank now offers innovative apps and services to their customers and employees with Apigee and Anthos In fact Arab Bank reports over of their new to bank customers are using their mobile apps Learn more Google Workspace for the Public Sector Sector eventsーThis June learn about Google Workspace tips and tricks to help you get things done Join us for one or more of our learning events tailored for government and higher education users Learn more Related ArticleAll about cables A guide to posts on our infrastructure under the seaAll our posts on Google s global subsea cable system in one handy location Read ArticleWeek of Jun Jun The top cloud capabilities industry leaders want for sustained innovationーMulticloud and hybrid cloud approaches coupled with open source technology adoption enable IT teams to take full advantage of the best cloud has to offer Our recent study with IDG shows just how much of a priority this has become for business leaders Read more or download the report Announcing the Firmina subsea cableーPlanned to run from the East Coast of the United States to Las Toninas Argentina with additional landings in Praia Grande Brazil and Punta del Este Uruguay Firmina will be the longest open subsea cable in the world capable of running entirely from a single power source at one end of the cable if its other power source s become temporarily unavailableーa resilience boost at a time when reliable connectivity is more important than ever Read more New research reveals what s needed for AI acceleration in manufacturingーAccording to our data which polled more than senior manufacturing executives across seven countries have turned to digital enablers and disruptive technologies due to the pandemic such as data and analytics cloud and artificial intelligence AI And of manufacturers who use AI in their day to day operations report that their reliance on AI is increasing Read more or download the report Cloud SQL offers even faster maintenanceーCloud SQL maintenance is zippier than ever MySQL and PostgreSQL planned maintenance typically lasts less than seconds and SQL Server maintenance typically lasts less than seconds You can learn more about maintenance here Simplifying Transfer Appliance configuration with Cloud Setup ApplicationーWe re announcing the availability of the Transfer Appliance Cloud Setup Application This will use the information you provide through simple prompts and configure your Google Cloud permissions preferred Cloud Storage bucket and Cloud KMS key for your transfer Several cloud console based manual steps are now simplified with a command line experience Read more  Google Cloud VMware Engine is now HIPAA compliantーAs of April Google Cloud VMware Engine is covered under the Google Cloud Business Associate Agreement BAA meaning it has achieved HIPAA compliance Healthcare organizations can now migrate and run their HIPAA compliant VMware workloads in a fully compatible VMware Cloud Verified stack running natively in Google Cloud with Google Cloud VMware Engine without changes or re architecture to tools processes or applications Read more Introducing container native Cloud DNSーKubernetes networking almost always starts with a DNS request DNS has broad impacts on your application and cluster performance scalability and resilience That is why we are excited to announce the release of container native Cloud DNSーthe native integration of Cloud DNS with Google Kubernetes Engine GKE to provide in cluster Service DNS resolution with Cloud DNS our scalable and full featured DNS service Read more Welcoming the EU s new Standard Contractual Clauses for cross border data transfersーLearn how we re incorporating the new Standard Contractual Clauses SCCs into our contracts to help protect our customers data and meet the requirements of European privacy legislation Read more Lowe s meets customer demand with Google SRE practicesーLearn how Low s has been able to increase the number of releases they can support by adopting Google s Site Reliability Engineering SRE framework and leveraging their partnership with Google Cloud Read more What s next for SAP on Google Cloud at SAPPHIRE NOW and beyondーAs SAP s SAPPHIRE conference begins this week we believe businesses have a more significant opportunity than ever to build for their next decade of growth and beyond Learn more on how we re working together with our customers SAP and our partners to support this transformation Read more Support for Node js Python and Java repositories for Artifact Registrynow in Preview With today s announcement you can not only use Artifact Registry to secure and distribute container images but also manage and secure your other software artifacts Read more What s next for SAP on Google Cloud at SAPPHIRE NOW and beyondーAs SAP s SAPPHIRE conference begins this week we believe businesses have a more significant opportunity than ever to build for their next decade of growth and beyond Learn more on how we re working together with our customers SAP and our partners to support this transformation Read more Google named a Leader in The Forrester Wave Streaming Analytics Q report Learn about the criteria where Google Dataflow was rated out and why this matters for our customers here Applied ML Summit this Thursday June Watch our keynote to learn about predictions for machine learning over the next decade Engage with distinguished researchers leading practitioners and Kaggle Grandmasters during our live Ask Me Anything session Take part in our modeling workshops to learn how you can iterate faster and deploy and manage your models with confidence no matter your level of formal computer science training Learn how to develop and apply your professional skills grow your abilities at the pace of innovation and take your career to the next level  Register now Related ArticleColossus under the hood a peek into Google s scalable storage systemAn overview of Colossus the file system that underpins Google Cloud s storage offerings Read ArticleWeek of May Jun Security Command Center now supports CIS benchmarks and granular access control Security Command Center SCC now supports CIS benchmarks for Google Cloud Platform Foundation v enabling you to monitor and address compliance violations against industry best practices in your Google Cloud environment Additionally SCC now supports fine grained access control for administrators that allows you to easily adhere to the principles of least privilegeーrestricting access based on roles and responsibilities to reduce risk and enabling broader team engagement to address security Read more Zero trust managed security for services with Traffic Director We created Traffic Director to bring to you a fully managed service mesh product that includes load balancing traffic management and service discovery And now we re happy to announce the availability of a fully managed zero trust security solution using Traffic Director with Google Kubernetes Engine GKE and Certificate Authority CA Service Read more How one business modernized their data warehouse for customer success PedidosYa migrated from their old data warehouse to Google Cloud s BigQuery Now with BigQuery the Latin American online food ordering company has reduced the total cost per query by x Learn more Announcing new Cloud TPU VMs New Cloud TPU VMs make it easier to use our industry leading TPU hardware by providing direct access to TPU host machines offering a new and improved user experience to develop and deploy TensorFlow PyTorch and JAX on Cloud TPUs Read more Introducing logical replication and decoding for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL We re announcing the public preview of logical replication and decoding for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL By releasing those capabilities and enabling change data capture CDC from Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL we strengthen our commitment to building an open database platform that meets critical application requirements and integrates seamlessly with the PostgreSQL ecosystem Read more How businesses are transforming with SAP on Google Cloud Thousands of organizations globally rely on SAP for their most mission critical workloads And for many Google Cloud customers part of a broader digital transformation journey has included accelerating the migration of these essential SAP workloads to Google Cloud for greater agility elasticity and uptime Read six of their stories Related Article businesses transforming with SAP on Google CloudBusinesses globally are running SAP on Google Cloud to take advantage of greater agility uptime and access to cutting edge smart analyt Read ArticleWeek of May May Google Cloud for financial services driving your transformation cloud journey As we welcome the industry to our Financial Services Summit we re sharing more on how Google Cloud accelerates a financial organization s digital transformation through app and infrastructure modernization data democratization people connections and trusted transactions Read more or watch the summit on demand Introducing Datashare solution for financial services We announced the general availability of Datashare for financial services a new Google Cloud solution that brings together the entire capital markets ecosystemーdata publishers and data consumersーto exchange market data securely and easily Read more Announcing Datastream in Preview Datastream a serverless change data capture CDC and replication service allows enterprises to synchronize data across heterogeneous databases storage systems and applications reliably and with minimal latency to support real time analytics database replication and event driven architectures Read more Introducing Dataplex An intelligent data fabric for analytics at scale Dataplex provides a way to centrally manage monitor and govern your data across data lakes data warehouses and data marts and make this data securely accessible to a variety of analytics and data science tools Read more  Announcing Dataflow Prime Available in Preview in Q Dataflow Prime is a new platform based on a serverless no ops auto tuning architecture built to bring unparalleled resource utilization and radical operational simplicity to big data processing Dataflow Prime builds on Dataflow and brings new user benefits with innovations in resource utilization and distributed diagnostics The new capabilities in Dataflow significantly reduce the time spent on infrastructure sizing and tuning tasks as well as time spent diagnosing data freshness problems Read more Secure and scalable sharing for data and analytics with Analytics Hub With Analytics Hub available in Preview in Q organizations get a rich data ecosystem by publishing and subscribing to analytics ready datasets control and monitoring over how their data is being used a self service way to access valuable and trusted data assets and an easy way to monetize their data assets without the overhead of building and managing the infrastructure Read more Cloud Spanner trims entry cost by Coming soon to Preview granular instance sizing in Spanner lets organizations run workloads at as low as th the cost of regular instances equating to approximately month Read more Cloud Bigtable lifts SLA and adds new security features for regulated industries Bigtable instances with a multi cluster routing policy across or more regions are now covered by a monthly uptime percentage under the new SLA In addition new Data Access audit logs can help determine whether sensitive customer information has been accessed in the event of a security incident and if so when and by whom Read more Build a no code journaling app In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month Google Cloud s no code application development platform AppSheet demonstrates how you can build a journaling app complete with titles time stamps mood entries and more Learn how with this blog and video here New features in Security Command CenterーOn May th Security Command Center Premium launched the general availability of granular access controls at project and folder level and Center for Internet Security CIS benchmarks for Google Cloud Platform Foundation These new capabilities enable organizations to improve their security posture and efficiently manage risk for their Google Cloud environment Learn more Simplified API operations with AI Google Cloud s API management platform Apigee applies Google s industry leading ML and AI to your API metadata Understand how it works with anomaly detection here This week Data Cloud and Financial Services Summits Our Google Cloud Summit series begins this week with the Data Cloud Summit on Wednesday May Global At this half day event you ll learn how leading companies like PayPal Workday Equifax and many others are driving competitive differentiation using Google Cloud technologies to build their data clouds and transform data into value that drives innovation The following day Thursday May Global amp EMEA at the Financial Services Summit discover how Google Cloud is helping financial institutions such as PayPal Global Payments HSBC Credit Suisse AXA Switzerland and more unlock new possibilities and accelerate business through innovation Read more and explore the entire summit series Announcing the Google for Games Developer Summit on July th th With a surge of new gamers and an increase in time spent playing games in the last year it s more important than ever for game developers to delight and engage players To help developers with this opportunity the games teams at Google are back to announce the return of the Google for Games Developer Summit on July th th  Hear from experts across Google about new game solutions they re building to make it easier for you to continue creating great games connecting with players and scaling your business  Registration is free and open to all game developers  Register for the free online event at g co gamedevsummit to get more details in the coming weeks We can t wait to share our latest innovations with the developer community  Learn more Related ArticleA handy new Google Cloud AWS and Azure product mapTo help developers translate their prior experience with other cloud providers to Google Cloud we have created a table showing how gener Read ArticleWeek of May May Best practices to protect your organization against ransomware threats For more than years Google has been operating securely in the cloud using our modern technology stack to provide a more defensible environment that we can protect at scale While the threat of ransomware isn t new our responsibility to help protect you from existing or emerging threats never changes In our recent blog post we shared guidance on how organizations can increase their resilience to ransomware and how some of our Cloud products and services can help Read more Forrester names Google Cloud a Leader in Unstructured Data Security Platforms Forrester Research has named Google Cloud a Leader in The Forrester Wave Unstructured Data Security Platforms Q report and rated Google Cloud highest in the current offering category among the providers evaluated Read more or download the report Introducing Vertex AI One platform every ML tool you need Vertex AI is a managed machine learning ML platform that allows companies to accelerate the deployment and maintenance of artificial intelligence AI models Read more Transforming collaboration in Google Workspace We re launching smart canvas  a new product experience that delivers the next evolution of collaboration for Google Workspace Between now and the end of the year we re rolling out innovations that make it easier for people to stay connected focus their time and attention and transform their ideas into impact Read more Developing next generation geothermal power At I O this week we announced a first of its kind next generation geothermal project with clean energy startup Fervo that will soon begin adding carbon free energy to the electric grid that serves our data centers and infrastructure throughout Nevada including our Cloud region in Las Vegas Read more Contributing to an environment of trust and transparency in Europe Google Cloud was one of the first cloud providers to support and adopt the EU GDPR Cloud Code of Conduct  CoC The CoC is a mechanism for cloud providers to demonstrate how they offer sufficient guarantees to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures as data processors under the GDPR  This week the Belgian Data Protection Authority based on a positive opinion by the European Data Protection Board  EDPB  approved the CoC a product of years of constructive collaboration between the cloud computing community the European Commission and European data protection authorities We are proud to say that Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace already adhere to these provisions Learn more Announcing Google Cloud datasets solutions We re adding commercial synthetic and first party data to our Google Cloud Public Datasets Program to help organizations increase the value of their analytics and AI initiatives and we re making available an open source reference architecture for a more streamlined data onboarding process to the program Read more Introducing custom samples in Cloud Code With new custom samples in Cloud Code  developers can quickly access your enterprise s best code samples via a versioned Git repository directly from their IDEs Read more Retention settings for Cloud SQL Cloud SQL now allows you to configure backup retention settings to protect against data loss You can retain between and days worth of automated backups and between and days worth of transaction logs for point in time recovery See the details here Cloud developer s guide to Google I O Google I O may look a little different this year but don t worry you ll still get the same first hand look at the newest launches and projects coming from Google Best of all it s free and available to all virtually on May Read more Related ArticleAnthos learning series All the videos in one placeIn under an hour you ll learn how Anthos lets you develop run and secure applications across your hybrid and multicloud environments Read ArticleWeek of May May APIs and Apigee power modern day due diligence With APIs and Google Cloud s Apigee business due diligence company DueDil revolutionized the way they harness and share their Big Information Graph B I G with partners and customers Get the full story Cloud CISO Perspectives May It s been a busy month here at Google Cloud since our inaugural CISO perspectives blog post in April Here VP and CISO of Google Cloud Phil Venables recaps our cloud security and industry highlights a sneak peak of what s ahead from Google at RSA and more Read more new features to secure your Cloud Run services We announced several new ways to secure Cloud Run environments to make developing and deploying containerized applications easier for developers Read more Maximize your Cloud Run investments with new committed use discounts We re introducing self service spend based committed use discounts for Cloud Run which let you commit for a year to spending a certain amount on Cloud Run and benefiting from a discount on the amount you committed Read more Google Cloud Armor Managed Protection Plus is now generally available Cloud Armor our Distributed Denial of Service DDoS protection and Web Application Firewall WAF service on Google Cloud leverages the same infrastructure network and technology that has protected Google s internet facing properties from some of the largest attacks ever reported These same tools protect customers infrastructure from DDoS attacks which are increasing in both magnitude and complexity every year Deployed at the very edge of our network Cloud Armor absorbs malicious network and protocol based volumetric attacks while mitigating the OWASP Top risks and maintaining the availability of protected services Read more Announcing Document Translation for Translation API Advanced in preview Translation is critical to many developers and localization providers whether you re releasing a document a piece of software training materials or a website in multiple languages With Document Translation now you can directly translate documents in languages and formats such as Docx PPTx XLSx and PDF while preserving document formatting Read more Introducing BeyondCorp Enterprise protected profiles Protected profiles enable users to securely access corporate resources from an unmanaged device with the same threat and data protections available in BeyondCorp Enterprise all from the Chrome Browser Read more How reCAPTCHA Enterprise protects unemployment and COVID vaccination portals With so many people visiting government websites to learn more about the COVID vaccine make vaccine appointments or file for unemployment these web pages have become prime targets for bot attacks and other abusive activities But reCAPTCHA Enterprise has helped state governments protect COVID vaccine registration portals and unemployment claims portals from abusive activities Learn more Day one with Anthos Here are ideas for how to get started Once you have your new application platform in place there are some things you can do to immediately get value and gain momentum Here are six things you can do to get you started Read more The era of the transformation cloud is here Google Cloud s president Rob Enslin shares how the era of the transformation cloud has seen organizations move beyond data centers to change not only where their business is done but more importantly how it is done Read more Related ArticleSRE at Google Our complete list of CRE life lessonsFind links to blog posts that share Google s SRE best practices in one handy location Read ArticleWeek of May May Transforming hard disk drive maintenance with predictive ML In collaboration with Seagate we developed a machine learning system that can forecast the probability of a recurring failing diskーa disk that fails or has experienced three or more problems in days Learn how we did it Agent Assist for Chat is now in public preview Agent Assist provides your human agents with continuous support during their calls and now chats by identifying the customers intent and providing them with real time recommendations such as articles and FAQs as well as responses to customer messages to more effectively resolve the conversation Read more New Google Cloud AWS and Azure product map Our updated product map helps you understand similar offerings from Google Cloud AWS and Azure and you can easily filter the list by product name or other common keywords Read more or view the map Join our Google Cloud Security Talks on May th We ll share expert insights into how we re working to be your most trusted cloud Find the list of topics we ll cover here Databricks is now GA on Google Cloud Deploy or migrate Databricks Lakehouse to Google Cloud to combine the benefits of an open data cloud platform with greater analytics flexibility unified infrastructure management and optimized performance Read more HPC VM image is now GA The CentOS based HPC VM image makes it quick and easy to create HPC ready VMs on Google Cloud that are pre tuned for optimal performance Check out our documentation and quickstart guide to start creating instances using the HPC VM image today Take the State of DevOps survey Help us shape the future of DevOps and make your voice heard by completing the State of DevOps survey before June Read more or take the survey OpenTelemetry Trace is now available OpenTelemetry has reached a key milestone the OpenTelemetry Tracing Specification has reached version API and SDK release candidates are available for Java Erlang Python Go Node js and Net Additional languages will follow over the next few weeks Read more New blueprint helps secure confidential data in AI Platform Notebooks We re adding to our portfolio of blueprints with the publication of our Protecting confidential data in AI Platform Notebooks blueprint guide and deployable blueprint which can help you apply data governance and security policies that protect your AI Platform Notebooks containing confidential data Read more The Liquibase Cloud Spanner extension is now GA Liquibase an open source library that works with a wide variety of databases can be used for tracking managing and automating database schema changes By providing the ability to integrate databases into your CI CD process Liquibase helps you more fully adopt DevOps practices The Liquibase Cloud Spanner extension allows developers to use Liquibase s open source database library to manage and automate schema changes in Cloud Spanner Read more Cloud computing Frequently asked questions There are a number of terms and concepts in cloud computing and not everyone is familiar with all of them To help we ve put together a list of common questions and the meanings of a few of those acronyms Read more Related ArticleAPI design Links to our most popular postsFind our most requested blog posts on API design in one location to read now or bookmark for later Read ArticleWeek of Apr Apr Announcing the GKE Gateway controller in Preview GKE Gateway controller Google Cloud s implementation of the Gateway API manages internal and external HTTP S load balancing for a GKE cluster or a fleet of GKE clusters and provides multi tenant sharing of load balancer infrastructure with centralized admin policy and control Read more See Network Performance for Google Cloud in Performance Dashboard The Google Cloud performance view part of the Network Intelligence Center provides packet loss and latency metrics for traffic on Google Cloud It allows users to do informed planning of their deployment architecture as well as determine in real time the answer to the most common troubleshooting question Is it Google or is it me The Google Cloud performance view is now open for all Google Cloud customers as a public preview  Check it out Optimizing data in Google Sheets allows users to create no code apps Format columns and tables in Google Sheets to best position your data to transform into a fully customized successful app no coding necessary Read our four best Google Sheets tips Automation bots with AppSheet Automation AppSheet recently released AppSheet Automation infusing Google AI capabilities to AppSheet s trusted no code app development platform Learn step by step how to build your first automation bot on AppSheet here Google Cloud announces a new region in Israel Our new region in Israel will make it easier for customers to serve their own users faster more reliably and securely Read more New multi instance NVIDIA GPUs on GKE We re launching support for multi instance GPUs in GKE currently in Preview which will help you drive better value from your GPU investments Read more Partnering with NSF to advance networking innovation We announced our partnership with the U S National Science Foundation NSF joining other industry partners and federal agencies as part of a combined million investment in academic research for Resilient and Intelligent Next Generation NextG Systems or RINGS Read more Creating a policy contract with Configuration as Data Configuration as Data is an emerging cloud infrastructure management paradigm that allows developers to declare the desired state of their applications and infrastructure without specifying the precise actions or steps for how to achieve it However declaring a configuration is only half the battle you also want policy that defines how a configuration is to be used This post shows you how Google Cloud products deliver real time data solutions Seven Eleven Japan built Seven Central its new platform for digital transformation on Google Cloud Powered by BigQuery Cloud Spanner and Apigee API management Seven Central presents easy to understand data ultimately allowing for quickly informed decisions Read their story here Related ArticleIn case you missed it All our free Google Cloud training opportunities from QSince January we ve introduced a number of no cost training opportunities to help you grow your cloud skills We ve brought them togethe Read ArticleWeek of Apr Apr Extreme PD is now GA On April th Google Cloud s Persistent Disk launched general availability of Extreme PD a high performance block storage volume with provisioned IOPS and up to GB s of throughput  Learn more Research How data analytics and intelligence tools to play a key role post COVID A recent Google commissioned study by IDG highlighted the role of data analytics and intelligent solutions when it comes to helping businesses separate from their competition The survey of IT leaders across the globe reinforced the notion that the ability to derive insights from data will go a long way towards determining which companies win in this new era  Learn more or download the study Introducing PHP on Cloud Functions We re bringing support for PHP a popular general purpose programming language to Cloud Functions With the Functions Framework for PHP you can write idiomatic PHP functions to build business critical applications and integration layers And with Cloud Functions for PHP now available in Preview you can deploy functions in a fully managed PHP environment complete with access to resources in a private VPC network  Learn more Delivering our CCAG pooled audit As our customers increased their use of cloud services to meet the demands of teleworking and aid in COVID recovery we ve worked hard to meet our commitment to being the industry s most trusted cloud despite the global pandemic We re proud to announce that Google Cloud completed an annual pooled audit with the CCAG in a completely remote setting and were the only cloud service provider to do so in  Learn more Anthos now available We recently released Anthos our run anywhere Kubernetes platform that s connected to Google Cloud delivering an array of capabilities that make multicloud more accessible and sustainable  Learn more New Redis Enterprise for Anthos and GKE We re making Redis Enterprise for Anthos and Google Kubernetes Engine GKE available in the Google Cloud Marketplace in private preview  Learn more Updates to Google Meet We introduced a refreshed user interface UI enhanced reliability features powered by the latest Google AI and tools that make meetings more engagingーeven funーfor everyone involved  Learn more DocAI solutions now generally available Document Doc AI platform  Lending DocAI and Procurement DocAI built on decades of AI innovation at Google bring powerful and useful solutions across lending insurance government and other industries  Learn more Four consecutive years of renewable energy In Google again matched percent of its global electricity use with purchases of renewable energy All told we ve signed agreements to buy power from more than renewable energy projects with a combined capacity of gigawatts about the same as a million solar rooftops  Learn more Announcing the Google Cloud region picker The Google Cloud region picker lets you assess key inputs like price latency to your end users and carbon footprint to help you choose which Google Cloud region to run on  Learn more Google Cloud launches new security solution WAAP WebApp and API Protection WAAP combines Google Cloud Armor Apigee and reCAPTCHA Enterprise to deliver improved threat protection consolidated visibility and greater operational efficiencies across clouds and on premises environments Learn more about WAAP here New in no code As discussed in our recent article no code hackathons are trending among innovative organizations Since then we ve outlined how you can host one yourself specifically designed for your unique business innovation outcomes Learn how here Google Cloud Referral Program now availableーNow you can share the power of Google Cloud and earn product credit for every new paying customer you refer Once you join the program you ll get a unique referral link that you can share with friends clients or others Whenever someone signs up with your link they ll get a product creditーthat s more than the standard trial credit When they become a paying customer we ll reward you with a product credit in your Google Cloud account Available in the United States Canada Brazil and Japan  Apply for the Google Cloud Referral Program Related Article cheat sheets to help you get started on your Google Cloud journeyWhether you need to determine the best way to move to the cloud or decide on the best storage option we ve built a number of cheat shee Read ArticleWeek of Apr Apr Announcing the Data Cloud Summit May At this half day event you ll learn how leading companies like PayPal Workday Equifax Zebra Technologies Commonwealth Care Alliance and many others are driving competitive differentiation using Google Cloud technologies to build their data clouds and transform data into value that drives innovation  Learn more and register at no cost Announcing the Financial Services Summit May In this hour event you ll learn how Google Cloud is helping financial institutions including PayPal Global Payments HSBC Credit Suisse and more unlock new possibilities and accelerate business through innovation and better customer experiences  Learn more and register for free  Global  amp  EMEA How Google Cloud is enabling vaccine equity In our latest update we share more on how we re working with US state governments to help produce equitable vaccination strategies at scale  Learn more The new Google Cloud region in Warsaw is open The Google Cloud region in Warsaw is now ready for business opening doors for organizations in Central and Eastern Europe  Learn more AppSheet Automation is now GA Google Cloud s AppSheet launches general availability of AppSheet Automation a unified development experience for citizen and professional developers alike to build custom applications with automated processes all without coding Learn how companies and employees are reclaiming their time and talent with AppSheet Automation here Introducing SAP Integration with Cloud Data Fusion Google Cloud native data integration platform Cloud Data Fusion now offers the capability to seamlessly get data out of SAP Business Suite SAP ERP and S HANA  Learn more Related ArticleSRE fundamentals SLIs vs SLAs vs SLOsWhat s the difference between an SLI an SLO and an SLA Google Site Reliability Engineers SRE explain Read ArticleWeek of Apr Apr New Certificate Authority Service CAS whitepaper “How to deploy a secure and reliable public key infrastructure with Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service written by Mark Cooper of PKI Solutions and Anoosh Saboori of Google Cloud covers security and architectural recommendations for the use of the Google Cloud CAS by organizations and describes critical concepts for securing and deploying a PKI based on CAS  Learn more or read the whitepaper Active Assist s new feature  predictive autoscaling helps improve response times for your applications When you enable predictive autoscaling Compute Engine forecasts future load based on your Managed Instance Group s MIG history and scales it out in advance of predicted load so that new instances are ready to serve when the load arrives Without predictive autoscaling an autoscaler can only scale a group reactively based on observed changes in load in real time With predictive autoscaling enabled the autoscaler works with real time data as well as with historical data to cover both the current and forecasted load That makes predictive autoscaling ideal for those apps with long initialization times and whose workloads vary predictably with daily or weekly cycles For more information see How predictive autoscaling works or check if predictive autoscaling is suitable for your workload and to learn more about other intelligent features check out Active Assist Introducing Dataprep BigQuery pushdown BigQuery pushdown gives you the flexibility to run jobs using either BigQuery or Dataflow If you select BigQuery then Dataprep can automatically determine if data pipelines can be partially or fully translated in a BigQuery SQL statement Any portions of the pipeline that cannot be run in BigQuery are executed in Dataflow Utilizing the power of BigQuery results in highly efficient data transformations especially for manipulations such as filters joins unions and aggregations This leads to better performance optimized costs and increased security with IAM and OAuth support  Learn more Announcing the Google Cloud Retail amp Consumer Goods Summit The Google Cloud Retail amp Consumer Goods Summit brings together technology and business insights the key ingredients for any transformation Whether you re responsible for IT data analytics supply chains or marketing please join Building connections and sharing perspectives cross functionally is important to reimagining yourself your organization or the world  Learn more or register for free New IDC whitepaper assesses multicloud as a risk mitigation strategy To better understand the benefits and challenges associated with a multicloud approach we supported IDC s new whitepaper that investigates how multicloud can help regulated organizations mitigate the risks of using a single cloud vendor The whitepaper looks at different approaches to multi vendor and hybrid clouds taken by European organizations and how these strategies can help organizations address concentration risk and vendor lock in improve their compliance posture and demonstrate an exit strategy  Learn more or download the paper Introducing request priorities for Cloud Spanner APIs You can now specify request priorities for some Cloud Spanner APIs By assigning a HIGH MEDIUM or LOW priority to a specific request you can now convey the relative importance of workloads to better align resource usage with performance objectives  Learn more How we re working with governments on climate goals Google Sustainability Officer Kate Brandt shares more on how we re partnering with governments around the world to provide our technology and insights to drive progress in sustainability efforts  Learn more Related ArticleCloud computing Frequently asked questionsWhat are containers What s a data lake What does that acronym stand for Get answers to the questions you re too afraid to ask Read ArticleWeek of Mar Apr Why Google Cloud is the ideal platform for Block one and other DLT companies Late last year Google Cloud joined the EOS community a leading open source platform for blockchain innovation and performance and is taking steps to support the EOS Public Blockchain by becoming a block producer  BP At the time we outlined how our planned participation underscores the importance of blockchain to the future of business government and society We re sharing more on why Google Cloud is uniquely positioned to be an excellent partner for Block one and other distributed ledger technology DLT companies  Learn more New whitepaper Scaling certificate management with Certificate Authority Service As Google Cloud s Certificate Authority Service CAS approaches general availability we want to help customers understand the service better Customers have asked us how CAS fits into our larger security story and how CAS works for various use cases Our new white paper answers these questions and more  Learn more and download the paper Build a consistent approach for API consumers Learn the differences between REST and GraphQL as well as how to apply REST based practices to GraphQL No matter the approach discover how to manage and treat both options as API products here Apigee X makes it simple to apply Cloud CDN to APIs With Apigee X and Cloud CDN organizations can expand their API programs global reach Learn how to deploy APIs across regions and zones here Enabling data migration with Transfer Appliances in APACーWe re announcing the general availability of Transfer Appliances TA TA in Singapore Customers are looking for fast secure and easy to use options to migrate their workloads to Google Cloud and we are addressing their needs with Transfer Appliances globally in the US EU and APAC Learn more about Transfer Appliances TA and TA Windows Authentication is now supported on Cloud SQL for SQL Server in public previewーWe ve launched seamless integration with Google Cloud s Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory AD This capability is a critical requirement to simplify identity management and streamline the migration of existing SQL Server workloads that rely on AD for access control  Learn more or get started Using Cloud AI to whip up new treats with Mars MaltesersーMaltesers a popular British candy made by Mars teamed up with our own AI baker and ML engineer extraordinaire  Sara Robinson to create a brand new dessert recipe with Google Cloud AI  Find out what happened  recipe included Simplifying data lake management with Dataproc Metastore now GAーDataproc Metastore a fully managed serverless technical metadata repository based on the Apache Hive metastore is now generally available Enterprises building and migrating open source data lakes to Google Cloud now have a central and persistent metastore for their open source data analytics frameworks  Learn more Introducing the Echo subsea cableーWe announced our investment in Echo the first ever cable to directly connect the U S to Singapore with direct fiber pairs over an express route Echo will run from Eureka California to Singapore with a stop over in Guam and plans to also land in Indonesia Additional landings are possible in the future  Learn more Related Article Google Cloud tools each explained in under minutesNeed a quick overview of Google Cloud core technologies Quickly learn these Google Cloud productsーeach explained in under two minutes Read ArticleWeek of Mar Mar new videos bring Google Cloud to lifeーThe Google Cloud Tech YouTube channel s latest video series explains cloud tools for technical practitioners in about minutes each  Learn more BigQuery named a Leader in the Forrester Wave Cloud Data Warehouse Q reportーForrester gave BigQuery a score of out of across different criteria Learn more in our blog post or download the report Charting the future of custom compute at GoogleーTo meet users performance needs at low power we re doubling down on custom chips that use System on a Chip SoC designs  Learn more Introducing Network Connectivity CenterーWe announced Network Connectivity Center which provides a single management experience to easily create connect and manage heterogeneous on prem and cloud networks leveraging Google s global infrastructure Network Connectivity Center serves as a vantage point to seamlessly connect VPNs partner and dedicated interconnects as well as third party routers and Software Defined WANs helping you optimize connectivity reduce operational burden and lower costsーwherever your applications or users may be  Learn more Making it easier to get Compute Engine resources for batch processingーWe announced a new method of obtaining Compute Engine instances for batch processing that accounts for availability of resources in zones of a region Now available in preview for regional managed instance groups you can do this simply by specifying the ANY value in the API  Learn more Next gen virtual automotive showrooms are here thanks to Google Cloud Unreal Engine and NVIDIAーWe teamed up with Unreal Engine the open and advanced real time D creation game engine and NVIDIA inventor of the GPU to launch new virtual showroom experiences for automakers Taking advantage of the NVIDIA RTX platform on Google Cloud these showrooms provide interactive D experiences photorealistic materials and environments and up to K cloud streaming on mobile and connected devices Today in collaboration with MHP the Porsche IT consulting firm and MONKEYWAY a real time D streaming solution provider you can see our first virtual showroom the Pagani Immersive Experience Platform  Learn more Troubleshoot network connectivity with Dynamic Verification public preview ーYou can now check packet loss rate and one way network latency between two VMs on GCP This capability is an addition to existing Network Intelligence Center Connectivity Tests which verify reachability by analyzing network configuration in your VPCs  See more in our documentation Helping U S states get the COVID vaccine to more peopleーIn February we announced our Intelligent Vaccine Impact solution IVIs  to help communities rise to the challenge of getting vaccines to more people quickly and effectively Many states have deployed IVIs and have found it able to meet demand and easily integrate with their existing technology infrastructures Google Cloud is proud to partner with a number of states across the U S including Arizona the Commonwealth of Massachusetts North Carolina Oregon and the Commonwealth of Virginia to support vaccination efforts at scale  Learn more Related ArticlePicture this whiteboard sketch videos that bring Google Cloud to lifeIf you re looking for a visual way to learn Google Cloud products we ve got you covered The Google Cloud Tech YouTube channel has a ser Read ArticleWeek of Mar Mar A VMs now GA The largest GPU cloud instances with NVIDIA A GPUsーWe re announcing the general availability of A VMs based on the NVIDIA Ampere A Tensor Core GPUs in Compute Engine This means customers around the world can now run their NVIDIA CUDA enabled machine learning ML and high performance computing HPC scale out and scale up workloads more efficiently and at a lower cost  Learn more Earn the new Google Kubernetes Engine skill badge for freeーWe ve added a new skill badge this month Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine GKE which you can earn for free when you sign up for the Kubernetes track of the skills challenge The skills challenge provides days free access to Google Cloud labs and gives you the opportunity to earn skill badges to showcase different cloud competencies to employers Learn more Now available carbon free energy percentages for our Google Cloud regionsーGoogle first achieved carbon neutrality in and since we ve purchased enough solar and wind energy to match of our global electricity consumption Now we re building on that progress to target a new sustainability goal running our business on carbon free energy everywhere by Beginning this week we re sharing data about how we are performing against that objective so our customers can select Google Cloud regions based on the carbon free energy supplying them Learn more Increasing bandwidth to C and N VMsーWe announced the public preview of and Gbps high bandwidth network configurations for General Purpose N and Compute Optimized C Compute Engine VM families as part of continuous efforts to optimize our Andromeda host networking stack This means we can now offer higher bandwidth options on existing VM families when using the Google Virtual NIC gVNIC These VMs were previously limited to Gbps Learn more New research on how COVID changed the nature of ITーTo learn more about the impact of COVID and the resulting implications to IT Google commissioned a study by IDG to better understand how organizations are shifting their priorities in the wake of the pandemic  Learn more and download the report New in API securityーGoogle Cloud Apigee API management platform s latest release  Apigee X works with Cloud Armor to protect your APIs with advanced security technology including DDoS protection geo fencing OAuth and API keys Learn more about our integrated security enhancements here Troubleshoot errors more quickly with Cloud LoggingーThe Logs Explorer now automatically breaks down your log results by severity making it easy to spot spikes in errors at specific times Learn more about our new histogram functionality here The Logs Explorer histogramWeek of Mar Mar Introducing AskGoogleCloud on Twitter and YouTubeーOur first segment on March th features Developer Advocates Stephanie Wong Martin Omander and James Ward to answer questions on the best workloads for serverless the differences between “serverless and “cloud native how to accurately estimate costs for using Cloud Run and much more  Learn more Learn about the value of no code hackathonsーGoogle Cloud s no code application development platform AppSheet helps to facilitate hackathons for “non technical employees with no coding necessary to compete Learn about Globe Telecom s no code hackathon as well as their winning AppSheet app here Introducing Cloud Code Secret Manager IntegrationーSecret Manager provides a central place and single source of truth to manage access and audit secrets across Google Cloud Integrating Cloud Code with Secret Manager brings the powerful capabilities of both these tools together so you can create and manage your secrets right from within your preferred IDE whether that be VS Code IntelliJ or Cloud Shell Editor  Learn more Flexible instance configurations in Cloud SQLーCloud SQL for MySQL now supports flexible instance configurations which offer you the extra freedom to configure your instance with the specific number of vCPUs and GB of RAM that fits your workload To set up a new instance with a flexible instance configuration see our documentation here The Cloud Healthcare Consent Management API is now generally availableーThe Healthcare Consent Management API is now GA giving customers the ability to greatly scale the management of consents to meet increasing need particularly amidst the emerging task of managing health data for new care and research scenarios  Learn more Related ArticleColossus under the hood a peek into Google s scalable storage systemAn overview of Colossus the file system that underpins Google Cloud s storage offerings Read ArticleWeek of Mar Mar Cloud Run is now available in all Google Cloud regions  Learn more Introducing Apache Spark Structured Streaming connector for Pub Sub LiteーWe re announcing the release of an open source connector to read streams of messages from Pub Sub Lite into Apache Spark The connector works in all Apache Spark X distributions including Dataproc Databricks or manual Spark installations  Learn more Google Cloud Next is October ーJoin us and learn how the most successful companies have transformed their businesses with Google Cloud Sign up at g co cloudnext for updates  Learn more Hierarchical firewall policies now GAーHierarchical firewalls provide a means to enforce firewall rules at the organization and folder levels in the GCP Resource Hierarchy This allows security administrators at different levels in the hierarchy to define and deploy consistent firewall rules across a number of projects so they re applied to all VMs in currently existing and yet to be created projects  Learn more Announcing the Google Cloud Born Digital SummitーOver this half day event we ll highlight proven best practice approaches to data architecture diversity amp inclusion and growth with Google Cloud solutions  Learn more and register for free Google Cloud products in words or less edition ーOur popular “ words or less Google Cloud developer s cheat sheet is back and updated for  Learn more Gartner names Google a leader in its Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services reportーWe believe this recognition is based on Gartner s evaluation of Google Cloud s language vision conversational and structured data services and solutions for developers  Learn more Announcing the Risk Protection ProgramーThe Risk Protection Program offers customers peace of mind through the technology to secure their data the tools to monitor the security of that data and an industry first cyber policy offered by leading insurers  Learn more Building the future of workーWe re introducing new innovations in Google Workspace to help people collaborate and find more time and focus wherever and however they work  Learn more Assured Controls and expanded Data RegionsーWe ve added new information governance features in Google Workspace to help customers control their data based on their business goals  Learn more Related Article quick tips for making the most of Gmail Meet Calendar and more in Google WorkspaceWhether you re looking to stay on top of your inbox or make the most of virtual meetings most of us can benefit from quick productivity Read ArticleWeek of Feb Feb Google Cloud tools explained in minutesーNeed a quick overview of Google Cloud core technologies Quickly learn these Google Cloud productsーeach explained in under two minutes  Learn more BigQuery materialized views now GAーMaterialized views MV s are precomputed views that periodically cache results of a query to provide customers increased performance and efficiency  Learn more New in BigQuery BI EngineーWe re extending BigQuery BI Engine to work with any BI or custom dashboarding applications that require sub second query response times In this preview BI Engine will work seamlessly with Looker and other popular BI tools such as Tableau and Power BI without requiring any change to the BI tools  Learn more Dataproc now supports Shielded VMsーAll Dataproc clusters created using Debian or Ubuntu operating systems now use Shielded VMs by default and customers can provide their own configurations for secure boot vTPM and Integrity Monitoring This feature is just one of the many ways customers that have migrated their Hadoop and Spark clusters to GCP experience continued improvements to their security postures without any additional cost New Cloud Security Podcast by GoogleーOur new podcast brings you stories and insights on security in the cloud delivering security from the cloud and of course on what we re doing at Google Cloud to help keep customer data safe and workloads secure  Learn more New in Conversational AI and Apigee technologyーAustralian retailer Woolworths provides seamless customer experiences with their virtual agent Olive Apigee API Management and Dialogflow technology allows customers to talk to Olive through voice and chat  Learn more Introducing GKE AutopilotーGKE already offers an industry leading level of automation that makes setting up and operating a Kubernetes cluster easier and more cost effective than do it yourself and other managed offerings Autopilot represents a significant leap forward In addition to the fully managed control plane that GKE has always provided using the Autopilot mode of operation automatically applies industry best practices and can eliminate all node management operations maximizing your cluster efficiency and helping to provide a stronger security posture  Learn more Partnering with Intel to accelerate cloud native GーAs we continue to grow cloud native services for the telecommunications industry we re excited to announce a collaboration with Intel to develop reference architectures and integrated solutions for communications service providers to accelerate their deployment of G and edge network solutions  Learn more Veeam Backup for Google Cloud now availableーVeeam Backup for Google Cloud automates Google native snapshots to securely protect VMs across projects and regions with ultra low RPOs and RTOs and store backups in Google Object Storage to enhance data protection while ensuring lower costs for long term retention Migrate for Anthos GAーWith Migrate for Anthos customers and partners can automatically migrate and modernize traditional application workloads running in VMs into containers running on Anthos or GKE Included in this new release  In place modernization for Anthos on AWS Public Preview to help customers accelerate on boarding to Anthos AWS while leveraging their existing investment in AWS data sources projects VPCs and IAM controls Additional Docker registries and artifacts repositories support GA including AWS ECR basic auth docker registries and AWS S storage to provide further flexibility for customers using Anthos Anywhere on prem AWS etc  HTTPS Proxy support GA to enable MA functionality access to external image repos and other services where a proxy is used to control external access Related Article resources to help you get started with SREHere are our top five Google Cloud resources for getting started on your SRE journey Read ArticleWeek of Feb Feb Introducing Cloud Domains in previewーCloud Domains simplify domain registration and management within Google Cloud improve the custom domain experience for developers increase security and support stronger integrations around DNS and SSL  Learn more Announcing Databricks on Google CloudーOur partnership with Databricks enables customers to accelerate Databricks implementations by simplifying their data access by jointly giving them powerful ways to analyze their data and by leveraging our combined AI and ML capabilities to impact business outcomes  Learn more Service Directory is GAーAs the number and diversity of services grows it becomes increasingly challenging to maintain an inventory of all of the services across an organization Last year we launched Service Directory to help simplify the problem of service management Today it s generally available  Learn more Related ArticleOptimize your browser deployment Links to our most popular Chrome Insider postsFind all the posts in our Chrome Insider blog series so you can read them all in one place or bookmark them for later Read ArticleWeek of Feb Feb Introducing Bare Metal Solution for SAP workloadsーWe ve expanded our Bare Metal Solutionーdedicated single tenant systems designed specifically to run workloads that are too large or otherwise unsuitable for standard virtualized environmentsーto include SAP certified hardware options giving SAP customers great options for modernizing their biggest and most challenging workloads  Learn more TB SSDs bring ultimate IOPS to Compute Engine VMsーYou can now attach TB and TB Local SSD to second generation general purpose N Compute Engine VMs for great IOPS per dollar  Learn more Supporting the Python ecosystemーAs part of our longstanding support for the Python ecosystem we are happy to increase our support for the Python Software Foundation the non profit behind the Python programming language ecosystem and community  Learn more  Migrate to regional backend services for Network Load BalancingーWe now support backend services with Network Load Balancingーa significant enhancement over the prior approach target pools providing a common unified data model for all our load balancing family members and accelerating the delivery of exciting features on Network Load Balancing  Learn more Related ArticleA giant list of Google Cloud resourcesThe growth of Google Cloud has been staggering I decided to invest some time in building you a comprehensive list of resources Read ArticleWeek of Feb Feb Apigee launches Apigee XーApigee celebrates its year anniversary with Apigee X a new release of the Apigee API management platform Apigee X harnesses the best of Google technologies to accelerate and globalize your API powered digital initiatives Learn more about Apigee X and digital excellence here Celebrating the success of Black founders with Google Cloud during Black History MonthーFebruary is Black History Month a time for us to come together to celebrate and remember the important people and history of the African heritage Over the next four weeks we will highlight four Black led startups and how they use Google Cloud to grow their businesses Our first feature highlights TQIntelligence and its founder Yared Related ArticleThe Service Mesh era All the posts in our best practices blog seriesFind all the posts in our Service Mesh Era blog series in one convenient locationーto read now or bookmark for later Read ArticleWeek of Jan Jan BeyondCorp Enterprise now generally availableーBeyondCorp Enterprise is a zero trust solution built on Google s global network which provides customers with simple and secure access to applications and cloud resources and offers integrated threat and data protection To learn more read the blog post visit our product homepage  and register for our upcoming webinar Related Article database trends to watchUsing managed cloud database services like Cloud SQL Spanner and more can bring performance scale and more See what s next for mode Read ArticleWeek of Jan Jan Cloud Operations Sandbox now availableーCloud Operations Sandbox is an open source tool that helps you learn SRE practices from Google and apply them on cloud services using Google Cloud s operations suite formerly Stackdriver with everything you need to get started in one click You can read our blog post or get started by visiting cloud ops sandbox dev exploring the project repo and following along in the user guide  New data security strategy whitepaperーOur new whitepaper shares our best practices for how to deploy a modern and effective data security program in the cloud Read the blog post or download the paper    WebSockets HTTP and gRPC bidirectional streams come to Cloud RunーWith these capabilities you can deploy new kinds of applications to Cloud Run that were not previously supported while taking advantage of serverless infrastructure These features are now available in public preview for all Cloud Run locations Read the blog post or check out the WebSockets demo app or the sample hc server app New tutorial Build a no code workout app in stepsーLooking to crush your new year s resolutions Using AppSheet Google Cloud s no code app development platform you can build a custom fitness app that can do things like record your sets reps and weights log your workouts and show you how you re progressing Learn how Week of Jan Jan State of API Economy Report now availableーGoogle Cloud details the changing role of APIs in amidst the COVID pandemic informed by a comprehensive study of Apigee API usage behavior across industry geography enterprise size and more Discover these trends along with a projection of what to expect from APIs in Read our blog post here or download and read the report here New in the state of no codeーGoogle Cloud s AppSheet looks back at the key no code application development themes of AppSheet contends the rising number of citizen developer app creators will ultimately change the state of no code in Read more here Week of Jan Jan Last year s most popular API postsーIn an arduous year thoughtful API design and strategy is critical to empowering developers and companies to use technology for global good Google Cloud looks back at the must read API posts in Read it here Week of Dec Dec A look back at the year across Google CloudーLooking for some holiday reading We ve published recaps of our year across databases serverless data analytics and no code development Or take a look at our most popular posts of Week of Dec Dec Memorystore for Redis enables TLS encryption support Preview ーWith this release you can now use Memorystore for applications requiring sensitive data to be encrypted between the client and the Memorystore instance Read more here Monitoring Query Language MQL for Cloud Monitoring is now generally availableーMonitoring Query language provides developers and operators on IT and development teams powerful metric querying analysis charting and alerting capabilities This functionality is needed for Monitoring use cases that include troubleshooting outages root cause analysis custom SLI SLO creation reporting and analytics complex alert logic and more Learn more Week of Dec Dec Memorystore for Redis now supports Redis AUTHーWith this release you can now use OSS Redis AUTH feature with Memorystore for Redis instances Read more here New in serverless computingーGoogle Cloud API Gateway and its service first approach to developing serverless APIs helps organizations accelerate innovation by eliminating scalability and security bottlenecks for their APIs Discover more benefits here Environmental Dynamics Inc makes a big move to no codeーThe environmental consulting company EDI built and deployed business apps with no coding skills necessary with Google Cloud s AppSheet This no code effort not only empowered field workers but also saved employees over hours a year Get the full story here Introducing Google Workspace for GovernmentーGoogle Workspace for Government is an offering that brings the best of Google Cloud s collaboration and communication tools to the government with pricing that meets the needs of the public sector Whether it s powering social care visits employment support or virtual courts Google Workspace helps governments meet the unique challenges they face as they work to provide better services in an increasingly virtual world Learn more Week of Nov Dec Google enters agreement to acquire ActifioーActifio a leader in backup and disaster recovery DR offers customers the opportunity to protect virtual copies of data in their native format manage these copies throughout their entire lifecycle and use these copies for scenarios like development and test This planned acquisition further demonstrates Google Cloud s commitment to helping enterprises protect workloads on premises and in the cloud Learn more Traffic Director can now send traffic to services and gateways hosted outside of Google CloudーTraffic Director support for Hybrid Connectivity Network Endpoint Groups NEGs now generally available enables services in your VPC network to interoperate more seamlessly with services in other environments It also enables you to build advanced solutions based on Google Cloud s portfolio of networking products such as Cloud Armor protection for your private on prem services Learn more Google Cloud launches the Healthcare Interoperability Readiness ProgramーThis program powered by APIs and Google Cloud s Apigee helps patients doctors researchers and healthcare technologists alike by making patient data and healthcare data more accessible and secure Learn more here Container Threat Detection in Security Command CenterーWe announced the general availability of Container Threat Detection a built in service in Security Command Center This release includes multiple detection capabilities to help you monitor and secure your container deployments in Google Cloud Read more here Anthos on bare metal now GAーAnthos on bare metal opens up new possibilities for how you run your workloads and where You can run Anthos on your existing virtualized infrastructure or eliminate the dependency on a hypervisor layer to modernize applications while reducing costs Learn more Week of Nov Tuning control support in Cloud SQL for MySQLーWe ve made all flags that were previously in preview now generally available GA empowering you with the controls you need to optimize your databases See the full list here New in BigQuery MLーWe announced the general availability of boosted trees using XGBoost deep neural networks DNNs using TensorFlow and model export for online prediction Learn more New AI ML in retail reportーWe recently commissioned a survey of global retail executives to better understand which AI ML use cases across the retail value chain drive the highest value and returns in retail and what retailers need to keep in mind when going after these opportunities Learn more  or read the report Week of Nov New whitepaper on how AI helps the patent industryーOur new paper outlines a methodology to train a BERT bidirectional encoder representation from transformers model on over million patent publications from the U S and other countries using open source tooling Learn more or read the whitepaper Google Cloud support for NET ーLearn more about our support of NET as well as how to deploy it to Cloud Run NET Core now on Cloud FunctionsーWith this integration you can write cloud functions using your favorite NET Core runtime with our Functions Framework for NET for an idiomatic developer experience Learn more Filestore Backups in previewーWe announced the availability of the Filestore Backups preview in all regions making it easier to migrate your business continuity disaster recovery and backup strategy for your file systems in Google Cloud Learn more Introducing Voucher a service to help secure the container supply chainーDeveloped by the Software Supply Chain Security team at Shopify to work with Google Cloud tools Voucher evaluates container images created by CI CD pipelines and signs those images if they meet certain predefined security criteria Binary Authorization then validates these signatures at deploy time ensuring that only explicitly authorized code that meets your organizational policy and compliance requirements can be deployed to production Learn more most watched from Google Cloud Next OnAirーTake a stroll through the sessions that were most popular from Next OnAir covering everything from data analytics to cloud migration to no code development  Read the blog Artifact Registry is now GAーWith support for container images Maven npm packages and additional formats coming soon Artifact Registry helps your organization benefit from scale security and standardization across your software supply chain  Read the blog Week of Nov Introducing the Anthos Developer SandboxーThe Anthos Developer Sandbox gives you an easy way to learn to develop on Anthos at no cost available to anyone with a Google account Read the blog Database Migration Service now available in previewーDatabase Migration Service DMS makes migrations to Cloud SQL simple and reliable DMS supports migrations of self hosted MySQL databasesーeither on premises or in the cloud as well as managed databases from other cloudsーto Cloud SQL for MySQL Support for PostgreSQL is currently available for limited customers in preview with SQL Server coming soon Learn more Troubleshoot deployments or production issues more quickly with new logs tailingーWe ve added support for a new API to tail logs with low latency Using gcloud it allows you the convenience of tail f with the powerful query language and centralized logging solution of Cloud Logging Learn more about this preview feature Regionalized log storage now available in new regions in previewーYou can now select where your logs are stored from one of five regions in addition to globalーasia east europe west us central us east and us west When you create a logs bucket you can set the region in which you want to store your logs data Get started with this guide Week of Nov Cloud SQL adds support for PostgreSQL ーShortly after its community GA Cloud SQL has added support for PostgreSQL You get access to the latest features of PostgreSQL while Cloud SQL handles the heavy operational lifting so your team can focus on accelerating application delivery Read more here Apigee creates value for businesses running on SAPーGoogle Cloud s API Management platform Apigee is optimized for data insights and data monetization helping businesses running on SAP innovate faster without fear of SAP specific challenges to modernization Read more here Document AI platform is liveーThe new Document AI DocAI platform a unified console for document processing is now available in preview You can quickly access all parsers tools and solutions e g Lending DocAI Procurement DocAI with a unified API enabling an end to end document solution from evaluation to deployment Read the full story here or check it out in your Google Cloudconsole Accelerating data migration with Transfer Appliances TA and TAーWe re announcing the general availability of new Transfer Appliances Customers are looking for fast secure and easy to use options to migrate their workloads to Google Cloud and we are addressing their needs with next generation Transfer Appliances Learn more about Transfer Appliances TA and TA Week of Oct B H Inc accelerates digital transformationーThe Utah based contracting and construction company BHI eliminated IT backlog when non technical employees were empowered to build equipment inspection productivity and other custom apps by choosing Google Workspace and the no code app development platform AppSheet Read the full story here Globe Telecom embraces no code developmentーGoogle Cloud s AppSheet empowers Globe Telecom employees to do more innovating with less code The global communications company kickstarted their no code journey by combining the power of AppSheet with a unique adoption strategy As a result AppSheet helped Globe Telecom employees build business apps in just weeks Get the full story Cloud Logging now allows you to control access to logs via Log ViewsーBuilding on the control offered via Log Buckets  blog post you can now configure who has access to logs based on the source project resource type or log name all using standard IAM controls Logs views currently in Preview can help you build a system using the principle of least privilege limiting sensitive logs to only users who need this information  Learn more about Log Views Document AI is HIPAA compliantーDocument AI now enables HIPAA compliance Now Healthcare and Life Science customers such as health care providers health plans and life science organizations can unlock insights by quickly extracting structured data from medical documents while safeguarding individuals protected health information PHI Learn more about Google Cloud s nearly products that support HIPAA compliance Week of Oct Improved security and governance in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQLーCloud SQL for PostgreSQL now integrates with Cloud IAM preview to provide simplified and consistent authentication and authorization Cloud SQL has also enabled PostgreSQL Audit Extension preview for more granular audit logging Read the blog Announcing the AI in Financial Crime Compliance webinarーOur executive digital forum will feature industry executives academics and former regulators who will discuss how AI is transforming financial crime compliance on November Register now Transforming retail with AI MLーNew research provides insights on high value AI ML use cases for food drug mass merchant and speciality retail that can drive significant value and build resilience for your business Learn what the top use cases are for your sub segment and read real world success stories Download the ebook here and view this companion webinar which also features insights from Zulily New release of Migrate for AnthosーWe re introducing two important new capabilities in the release of Migrate for Anthos Google Cloud s solution to easily migrate and modernize applications currently running on VMs so that they instead run on containers in Google Kubernetes Engine or Anthos The first is GA support for modernizing IIS apps running on Windows Server VMs The second is a new utility that helps you identify which VMs in your existing environment are the best targets for modernization to containers Start migrating or check out the assessment tool documentation Linux Windows New Compute Engine autoscaler controlsーNew scale in controls in Compute Engine let you limit the VM deletion rate by preventing the autoscaler from reducing a MIG s size by more VM instances than your workload can tolerate to lose Read the blog Lending DocAI in previewーLending DocAI is a specialized solution in our Document AI portfolio for the mortgage industry that processes borrowers income and asset documents to speed up loan applications Read the blog or check out the product demo Week of Oct New maintenance controls for Cloud SQLーCloud SQL now offers maintenance deny period controls which allow you to prevent automatic maintenance from occurring during a day time period Read the blog Trends in volumetric DDoS attacksーThis week we published a deep dive into DDoS threats detailing the trends we re seeing and giving you a closer look at how we prepare for multi terabit attacks so your sites stay up and running Read the blog New in BigQueryーWe shared a number of updates this week including new SQL capabilities more granular control over your partitions with time unit partitioning the general availability of Table ACLs and BigQuery System Tables Reports a solution that aims to help you monitor BigQuery flat rate slot and reservation utilization by leveraging BigQuery s underlying INFORMATION SCHEMA views Read the blog Cloud Code makes YAML easy for hundreds of popular Kubernetes CRDsーWe announced authoring support for more than popular Kubernetes CRDs out of the box any existing CRDs in your Kubernetes cluster and any CRDs you add from your local machine or a URL Read the blog Google Cloud s data privacy commitments for the AI eraーWe ve outlined how our AI ML Privacy Commitment reflects our belief that customers should have both the highest level of security and the highest level of control over data stored in the cloud Read the blog New lower pricing for Cloud CDNーWe ve reduced the price of cache fill content fetched from your origin charges across the board by up to along with our recent introduction of a new set of flexible caching capabilities to make it even easier to use Cloud CDN to optimize the performance of your applications Read the blog Expanding the BeyondCorp AllianceーLast year we announced our BeyondCorp Alliance with partners that share our Zero Trust vision Today we re announcing new partners to this alliance Read the blog New data analytics training opportunitiesーThroughout October and November we re offering a number of no cost ways to learn data analytics with trainings for beginners to advanced users Learn more New BigQuery blog seriesーBigQuery Explained provides overviews on storage data ingestion queries joins and more Read the series Week of Oct Introducing the Google Cloud Healthcare Consent Management APIーThis API gives healthcare application developers and clinical researchers a simple way to manage individuals consent of their health data particularly important given the new and emerging virtual care and research scenarios related to COVID Read the blog Announcing Google Cloud buildpacksーBased on the CNCF buildpacks v specification these buildpacks produce container images that follow best practices and are suitable for running on all of our container platforms Cloud Run fully managed Anthos and Google Kubernetes Engine GKE Read the blog Providing open access to the Genome Aggregation Database gnomAD ーOur collaboration with Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard provides free access to one of the world s most comprehensive public genomic 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GCP	Cloud Blog	Live from COP26: A cloud’s eye view	https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/thoughts-on-cloud-and-climate-change-from-cop26/	Live from COP A cloud s eye viewAt Google we re keenly invested in preventing the worst effects of climate change and helping our customers use Google Cloud technology to build a more sustainable future We re watching with interest the goings on at the United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP when representatives from countries and organizations around the world including Google Cloud will gather for the first two weeks in November in Glasgow Scotland for the latest round of climate talks Bookmark this blog as Google sustainability experts bring their perspective on developments discussed there as they pertain to cloud computing Catch the event for yourself on Youtube and Google Arts amp Culture Developing apps that support our natural worldMonday November Alexandrina Garcia Verdin Cloud Developer Advocate At COP the focus thus far has largely been on reducing carbon emissions ーand rightfully so But today s theme of Adaptation Loss and Damage has particular meaning to me Working at Google Cloud I ve witnessed how technology and data can help us solve complex social and environmental challenges especially in two major areas   Assessing and quantifying changes caused by human activity on the Earth and course correct ex timelapses of satellite imagery or auto classifying images to detect carbon emissions Creating and adopting the next generation of Earth aligned solutions that improve systems of infrastructure and exchanging of goods ex sensors to support regenerative farming or supply chain apps that label the climate positive impact a good or service has promoting biodegradable materials or circular systems of reuse As a Developer Advocate I build and share how to technical content to show customers how to use our tools In that capacity for Earth Day I created a YouTube mini series called People and Planet AI that helps create paths for developers interested in using machine learning or big data to build meaningful apps via real life examples The first episode of this technical series is on WildlifeInsights org which is an amazing free web app that anyone with an internet connection can use to search or upload photos to a global wildlife database to train machine learning models that auto classify photos of animals taken by research cameras In this vein my peers and I designed a getting started sample for building an animal classifier on Google Cloud Our second episode was on GlobalFishingWatch org another beautiful machine learning project that helps track vessels from illegal unreported and unregulated fishing Our beginner sample teaches you the data transformations performed and the model creation process for building a time series classification It uses GPS vessel data and manually labeled data to predict whether or not a vessel is fishing based on their distance from shore direction lat long speed etc Thanks to Google s employee policy which enables employees to spend of their time on projects outside of their core job I also work co organizing a grass roots group called Anthropocene that matches Googlers with internal climate products research or hardware The goal is to accelerate the creation of climate solutions by connecting talented people to different problems This climate solutions startup community is intentionally a safe and positive space made up of passionate people with a wide spectrum of technical science environmental or organizational backgrounds They each choose the skills they wish to offer ranging from project management UX marketing partner management software engineering technical documentation analytics etc I believe open data and documentation is the way to scale climate solutions with urgency I turn to open source practices because they are at the end of the day contribution frameworks that enable perfect strangers to work together to solve complex issues And when it comes to climate solutions we benefit from global participation to design for regional needs As such documenting recording or summarizing how to build a solution as accessibly possible is key to enabling others It s also equally important for organizations to continuously share data to help build models that have sufficient information to train them  My next work will be focused on externalizing the program management learnings we have gathered from operating our climate startups program The goal is to share new frameworks for organizations in any industry to build internal climate solution programs by leveraging employee talent as well as the organization s strengths resources Thanks to data and machine learning today we can understand our natural world with far greater richness than ever before ーby orders of magnitude more I am personally very motivated to see climate solutions grow exponentially and look forward to inspiring technologists to apply their skills to our natural world Can t miss experiences from the Green Zone at COP Friday November  Camaryn McKenzie and Denna Nazem Associate Product Marketing Managers GoogleAs part of a generation that is deeply passionate about climate justice and protecting the planet we treat our role as Google marketers as an opportunity to amplify voices generate awareness for technology solutions and build influential and creative content around sustainability This week we ve been exploring COP through Google Arts and Culture s Green Zone ーa space for youth groups civil society academia artists and business to host events exhibitions cultural performances workshops and talks that are online and accessible to all We want to invite you to explore the Green Zone watch live streams straight out of Glasgow and even virtually walk through the exhibits in a space  There is a LOT of outstanding content available but we were especially drawn to some of the creative solutions presented by climate leaders to combat global warming Here are the top three sessions we think you can t miss  Reimagining Museums for Climate Action What if Indigenous lands were thought of as a kind of museum for climate action The UN launched the “Reimagining Museums for Climate Action design competition in May and is now showcasing eight of the proposals at COP This article allows you to explore the exhibits online showcasing ideas on how museums can become catalysts for climate action One project we found particularly interesting was the Natural Future Museum which celebrates and protects Indigenous communities who have historically lived in harmony with their natural environments The exhibit includes a short film highlighting one community that is doing just that “The relationship between museums and Indigenous groups is often problematic as museums have deprived them of their cultural heritage What if we thought of Indigenous territories themselves as a new kind of museum where forests and peoples ways of life can be sustained Natural Future Museums Reimagining Museums for Climate Action  Climate visuals Visualising Climate Change Climate Visuals in collaboration with TED Countdown is releasing photographs selected from a pool of unique submissions Each of the photos is a combination of illustrative and impactful showcasing climate solutions in tandem with the global impact of climate change This initiative is intended to produce an accessible collection of evidence based photos that document the reality of climate change across the globe “How we articulate the impact of climate can make or break public opinion and the ripple effect is seen throughout culture business education media and more Climate VisualsAerial view of systematic deforestation in a Bolivian national park bare strip of ground among forests Marcelo Perez del Carpio Climate Visuals Countdown Men working to drive in posts to retain soil embankment on the coast from erosion by high tides Debsuddha Banerjee Climate Visuals Countdown  The Frontlines Step into the Reality of Climate ChangeThe Biosphere Virtual Reality exhibit The Frontlines transports viewers to the frontlines and realities of the climate crisis and out of the comfort of Glasgow or their computer scenes We think the power of VR and immersive video really shines through this exhibit bringing in the voices of the most underrepresented populations who are being hit the hardest by climate change directly to the COP stage Through showcasing three moving case studies the exhibit clearly highlights how while it is important to work together towards solutions for the future the reality is devastation has already arrived   “Women and young people in the Global South are already being hardest hit by the climate crisis Extreme weather patterns ーcaused by rising global temperatures ーare destroying lives and livelihoods and displacing millions of people from their homes…step into the reality of climate change and be transported from the comfort of Glasgow to the places already being devastated by the effects of climate change Kiribati Morocco and Ethiopia The Frontlines Biosphere Virtual RealityWhat Green Zone content resonated most with you Join the climate conversation with GoogleSustainability and GoogleCloud New partnerships set a course for clean energy progressThursday November  Fabien Vieau Regional Director European Data Center Energy and SustainabilityWhile national pledges to reduce carbon emissions tend to make the most news at climate conferences like the one this week in Glasgow it s new policy and investment partnerships that will be key to making near term progress in transitioning the globe to cleaner energy sources And by that measure the first week of COP has already included a number of important announcements that will help move us faster toward a cleaner energy system  On Tuesday my colleague Devon Swezey wrote about the new Carbon free Energy Compact now with signatories to enable CFE and accelerate electricity grid decarbonization across the globe Today I was pleased to represent Google as it officially joined the Clean Energy Demand Initiative CEDI a new effort coordinated by the U S government and announced today by Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry The CEDI fosters collaboration between corporate clean energy buyers and governments across Asia Latin America and Africa to scale clean energy purchasing and support national climate goals Google has long been a leader in clean energy purchasing helping to found organizations like the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance in the U S Re Source in Europe and working to open the market in Taiwan to direct clean energy purchasing The CEDI is an exciting new partnership to expand these successes to new geographies In addition to these initiatives a number of other notable efforts were launched to support the growth of clean energy across the globe These include  A new Green Grids Initiative launched by the UK and India which seeks to accelerate the development and deployment of interconnected electricity grids across continents countries and communities   The Global Energy Alliance a new fund to accelerate and scale equitable energy transitions in low and middle income countries which aims to raise billion in public and private capital to expand access to clean electricity for billion people  The First Movers Coalition which organizes commitments by companies to purchase low carbon products to create new markets for technologies that will be needed to reduce emissions across hard to abate sectors like aviation shipping and cement One important lesson coming out of COP is that partnerships and collaboration between the public private and NGO sectors will be key to driving the adoption of clean energy at the pace and scale necessary to mitigate the worst consequences of climate change It s also clear that policy in particular is critical to accelerating the current momentum Supporting the net zero agenda as technology leaders Wednesday November Paul Frost Chief Architect Wholesale Banking Technology HSBCAs COP gets into full swing I ve started reflecting on what we as technology leaders can do to support the sustainability and the net zero agenda Since the turn of the st century we as a society have become more and more dependent on technology both in our personal lives and at work and the push to digitise continues at pace especially in the financial sector Let s start by saying from a carbon footprint perspective this is a good thing for almost all processes in a digitised journey will always be more carbon efficient than the equivalent manual process Using paper and visiting a branch by example are evidently more carbon intensive Having said that we must also recognise that for us at HSBC and other banks technology is a sizeable part of our carbon footprint So what are the levers we have to influence the size of this footprint There are a number of choices we can make that have a positive impact ーfrom large decisions around hosting through to how we manage our day to day activities across technology One of the most impactful things we can do is to use the cloud Whilst we are moving to more sustainable internal data centres cloud providers are generally ahead of this curve as they have had to drive a high degree of efficiency to support their hyperscale demands That and their advances in use of green energy puts them ahead in the goals of net zero carbon But cloud isn t the only answer ーwe need to think about how we use the technology more broadly Here are just some of the things we as technology leaders should consider Are we rightsizing our applications Typically utilization figures of servers are low so would efficient use of containers and virtualization help We often “gold plate solutions does the solution warrant the size of infrastructure deployed to meet this business need Do systems need to be up and running of the time We typically leave infrastructure running when not in use Do those development and test environments need to be running of the time Can we scale on demand rather than pre provision to meet spikes in capacity demand This is another area where cloud helps What about data It too has a carbon footprint Do we always consider the data lifecycle and have efficient processes for data archiving and deletion or do we keep the data around just in case Duplication do we have duplicate solutions that meet a business need Do we really need this or would consolidation help reduce the carbon footprint The desktop are we thinking about carbon footprint in our desktop There is significant variation across desktop devices that needs to be considered Are we considering the whole life of a device through manufacture transport use and eventually decommission These are just some of the things we need to consider and I am sure many people are already aware and doing this There are more options out there but the most important thing we can do is start thinking about the various options we have at hand make sure we are having these conversations and challenge the carbon efficiency of our technology use At HSBC we are committed to achieving net zero in our own operations and supply chain by or sooner read more here Accelerating sustainable finance with technologyWednesday November Jeff Sternberg Director Office of the CTO Google CloudAs global leaders gather this week at COP in Glasgow one of their top goals is to mobilize finance to secure net zero emissions and keep degrees warming within reach To do this COP leaders are challenging all financial stakeholders to take climate into account in every financial decision  Technology is playing a vital role in this effort I have a background in financial services and fintech and work in Google Cloud s CTO Office with technology leaders across financial services and other industries to transform sustainability in their organizations Here are three technology areas that I think are vital for sustainable finance both to manage climate related risks and to enable new climate finance opportunities Understanding localized climate risksCOP leaders are calling on companies to be transparent about the risks inherent in climate change Every business will be affected by a warming planet and it s critical to understand precisely how these events will affect company operations employees lives and entire value chains As BlackRock s CEO Larry Fink has stated climate risk is investment risk However physical risks from climate change are not evenly distributed around the world Some areas will see increased floods and others will face droughts or wildfires Rising sea levels will affect coastal areas and severe winter storms will affect places with historically milder winters Geospatial analytics and modeling has the potential to give us a much more accurate view of these localized climate related physical risks The Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures TCFD recommends factoring the geographic location of the organization s value chain both upstream and downstream as well as the organization s own assets into any climate change scenario analysis efforts Using tools like Google Earth Engine and BigQuery it s possible to create a localized precise understanding of climate related physical risks for each location in the value chain Using AI to improve climate disclosureAnother key finance priority for COP is improving the quantity quality and comparability of climate related disclosures by companies so that investors and regulators can better understand climate risks and opportunities To date most of this disclosure has been published as human readable documents One example is Google s Environmental Report These documents are very helpful if you re in a position to deeply study an individual company but what if you want a broad view of sustainability progress across markets This is where AI comes in Specifically natural language machine learning approaches can be applied to classifying and extracting structured information from sustainability disclosures The TCFD recently used an AI approach to quantify the level of sustainability disclosure across companies from countries A team of experts manually labeled text passages in a sample of documents assigning a “yes or “no value to each review question such as “does the company disclose Scope Scope and if appropriate Scope greenhouse gas emissions Then they trained a model with these labels and used it to predict yes no responses for the entire corpus The resulting analytics were used by the task force to assess the state of adoption and level of disclosures Investors regulators and companies can all benefit from adopting natural language AI techniques to better understand sustainability documents whether those are from suppliers investors customers or even competitors Tools like Google Document AI and Vertex AutoML can accelerate AI adoption in these organizations Collaborative sustainability data sharingCOP is demonstrating the power of collaboration to solve climate challenges It s clear that individual organizations cannot go at this alone everyone must work together In the financial world companies need to share information with investors suppliers need to share data with companies and everyone needs to share data with regulators and central banks In an enterprise setting sharing data can be difficult involving legacy tools slow cycle times and one way processes What if sharing climate and sustainability data were as simple as sharing photos or documents in the cloud Cloud native tools like Analytics Hub built on BigQuery can definitely help here As a bonus thanks to Google s renewable energy matching building these solutions on Google Cloud today means the net operational greenhouse gas emissions associated with your application is zero And over time the gross carbon footprint of these workloads will decrease as we make progress towards our goal of running on carbon free energy around the clock by New momentum for carbon free energyTuesday November Devon Swezey Global Energy Markets and Policy LeadWhen Google announced our goal to operate on carbon free energy CFE at all of our data centers cloud regions and office campuses across the world by we knew that reaching it would require new partnerships with governments companies our customers and the communities in which we operate That s why it s been so exciting to see so many companies governments and organizations join Google in committing to advance CFE including today at the COP conference in Glasgow  Earlier today I participated on a panel with leaders from X AES Clean Energy the government of Iceland and the city of Ithaca New York to discuss the CFE Compact a multi stakeholder effort organized by Sustainable Energy for All to accelerate decarbonization of electricity grids across the globe SEforAll announced that new companies governments and organizations for a total of have now joined the Compact which Google CFO Ruth Porat publicly launched in a speech at the September UN High Level Dialogue on Energy In addition to the organizations that participated on today s panel CFE Compact signatories include Clean Air Task Force EDP Engie Johnson Controls and Orsted you can find a full list here The CFE Compact is a vehicle to focus action to go beyond the “emit and compensate model of the past and target the complete decarbonization of electricity consumption This is important because rapid electricity decarbonization is key to creating net zero emissions economies electricity accounts for of global carbon emissions but is also key to decarbonizing other sectors of the economy like transport industry and buildings According to the International Energy Agency s landmark Net Zero by report published earlier this year to achieve a net zero global economy by we must create zero carbon grids even earlier by according to the IEA while “electricity becomes the core of the energy system  With the CFE Compact stakeholders across the energy ecosystem can help accelerate this transition by driving progress in key areas We ll need more energy consumers targeting CFE for their operations new market and product innovations to enable around the clock clean power advancements in carbon free energy and demand optimization technologies and major shifts in policy We re hopeful that COP proves to be a strong foundation to build upon as we work collectively to decarbonize the grids in the coming decades  To learn more about the growing movement for Carbon free Energy and how you can get involved check out www gocarbonfree com And as Google advances towards our own CFE by goal we ll continue to share our learnings and our progress and work to help our partners and customers achieve their own decarbonization objectives Stay tuned for more updates in this area in the weeks ahead At COP we ll be watching the world turn ambition into actionMonday November Chris Talbott Cloud Sustainability LeadIt s Day of COP where for the next two weeks the work of nations companies agencies and individuals fighting climate change across the globe will be on full display  At Google we believe that technology is a powerful tool in that fight and consider the environment with every product we build and every data center we stand up We re also partnering with governments to decarbonize their economies improving climate preparedness and increasing climate resilience  And at Google Cloud we ve been working with our customers to apply cloud technologies to the critical climate change challenges they need to meet for their business goals In these engagements we re focused on turning the overwhelming ambition we hear from everyone we talk to ーapp developers to city planners to CEOs ーinto real action Which is why I m looking forward to the next two weeks and I m super interested in learning how other companies are tackling climate change in their industries  For example one of the things we ll be on the lookout for is new ideas for using technology to help visualize and quantify climate challenges ーthings like this AI generated installation with artwork that explores climate issues like coral bleaching Visual representations are already helping our customers make more sustainable decisions such as how to source materials more responsibly I hope we can learn more from the creative COP community on how to use visuals to influence sustainability decisions  Each day of COP has a theme ーfrom finance to energy to cities ーwhich is sure to bring new commitments from the leading sustainable companies in each industry Whether its pricing climate risk into financial assets last mile efficiency in logistics or infrastructure decarbonization individual industries all face unique sustainability challenges have unique goals and require unique technology solutions to achieve them For our part Google shared a new net zero commitment across our value chain heading into COP and I m looking forward to seeing all the new targets being set and progress that companies are making  We ll also be listening to the experts on howwe can avert the worst consequences of climate change The challenge is immense but change can start with small decisions all of us make Keep us bookmarked and check back with us often to hear perspectives from onsite in Glasgow and from climate and industry experts across our teams who are working on making the sustainable choice the easy one Related resourcesGoogle Cloud sustainability overviewAnnouncing new tools to measureーand reduceーyour environmental impactSustainability at Google Cloud Next	2021-11-08 21:00:00