Private connectivity is critical for organizations to secure data access and meet regulatory requirements — particularly if their applications access an operational database. Traditionally, organizations have relied on VPC Network Peering leveraging private services access, but that can be cumbersome at scale.

Since the general availability (GA) of Memorystore for Redis Cluster in November 2023, we have seen rapid adoption and growth of the service.

Delta Lake is an open-source optimized storage layer that provides a foundation for tables in lake houses and brings reliability and performance improvements to existing data lakes.

At Google Cloud Next ‘23, we announced support in Database Migration Service (DMS) for Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migrations to make them smooth, intuitive and efficient. We also introduced integrated code and schema conversions to reduce friction in the most time-consuming phases of the migration.

We talked earlier this week about our exclusive look at the new AI features on the way for Chromebook Plus, but I wanted to take a few minutes to really look a bit more closely at the wallpaper and video background features that are coming.

Startup PeerDB Inc., which has built a data movement platform specifically for open-source PostgreSQL database management systems, said today it has closed on a seed funding round worth $3.6 million.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 124 (124.0.6367.38) for iOS; it’ll become available on App Store in the next few days.You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.Erhu AkpobaroGoogle Chrome

The Stable channel is being updated to OS version: 15786.48.0 Browser version: 123.0.6312.112 for most ChromeOS devices.If you find new issues, please let us know one of the following waysFile a bugVisit our ChromeOS communitiesGeneral: Chromebook Help CommunityBeta Specific: ChromeOS Beta Help CommunityReport an issue or send feedback on ChromeInterested in switching channels?

Hello All,The Beta channel has been updated to ChromeOS version 15823.23.0 with Chrome Browser version 124.0.6367.34 for most ChromeOS devices.If you find new issues, please let us know one of the following ways:File a bug Visit our Chrome OS communitiesGeneral: Chromebook Help CommunityBeta Specific: ChromeOS Beta Help CommunityReport an issue or send feedback on ChromeInterested in switching channels?

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 124 (124.0.6367.37) for Android. It’s now available on Google Play.You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog, and for details on web platform updates, check here.

 Hello, Everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 123 (123.0.6312.118) for Android: it’ll become available on Google Play over the next few days.This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Google has rolled out a premium tier for Chrome Enterprise, offering additional security features for the popular web browser. Google launched Chrome Enterprise in 2017 as a business-focused edition of its Chrome browser with built-in management features for IT admins and security teams.

The Stable channel has been updated to 123.0.6312.122/.123 for Windows 123.0.6312.122/.123/.124 for Mac and 123.0.6312.122 to Linux which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

The Privacy Sandbox initiative aims to create technologies that both protect people’s privacy online and give companies and developers tools to build thriving digital businesses. The Privacy Sandbox reduces cross-site and cross-app tracking while helping to keep online content and services free for all.

Generative AI is changing the way we create, innovate, and interact with the world. From generating realistic images and videos to composing music and writing code, gen AI models are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. But achieving the heights of AI’s promises hinges on a scalable storage foundation.

We are at a pivotal moment for business intelligence (BI). There’s more data than ever impacting all aspects of business. Organizations are faced with increasing user demands for that data, with a wide range of access requirements.

At Google Cloud Consulting, we are committed to helping our customers learn, build, operate, and succeed, wherever they are in their cloud journey. We are energized by the transformative potential of generative AI, and while it is getting a lot of attention, the cloud infrastructure that powers it remains essential.

Confidential Computing can help organizations process sensitive data in the cloud with strong guarantees around confidentiality. We’ve continued to make strides in maturing this important technology, and are collaborating with industry leaders including Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA on advancing Confidential Computing solutions.

Eighty percent of data leaders believe that the lines between data and AI are blurring. Using large language models (LLMs) with your business data can give you a competitive advantage, but to realize this advantage, how you structure, prepare, govern, model, and scale your data matters.

Earlier this year we announced Gemma, an open weights model family built to enable developers to rapidly experiment with, adapt, and productionize on Google Cloud.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, the demand for high-performance, cost-efficient AI inference (serving) has never been greater. This week we announced two new open source software offerings: JetStream and MaxDiffusion.  JetStream is a new inference engine for XLA devices, starting with Cloud TPUs.

It’s a great time for organizations innovating with AI. Google recently launched Gemini, our largest and most capable AI model, followed by Gemma, a family of lightweight, state-of-the art open models built from research and technology that we used to create the Gemini models.

Generative AI offers the opportunity to build more interactive, personalized, and complete experiences for your customers, even if you don’t have specialized AI/ML expertise.

How do you store the entire internet? That’s the problem our engineering team set out to solve in 2004 when it launched Bigtable, one of Google’s longest serving and largest data storage systems.

On this week’s episode of The Chrome Cast podcast, we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming with a discussion about wrapping up our Chromebook Plus reviews and an exciting exclusive demo of the upcoming Chromebook Plus AI features.

Thanks to a pretty cool find by @cajl_jbmm over on X (formerly Twitter), we’ve been made aware of a small-but-important new feature on the way for Chromebooks.

For this post, I went to the storage room and pulled out one of the first Chromebook Plus models we reviewed just to reacquaint myself a bit.

Human insights platform company UserTesting Inc. today launched a new feedback engine and enhancements to its artificial intelligence capabilities that help organizations capture and analyze feedback and activate insights.

Starburst Data Inc., which sells a commercial version of the open-source Trino distributed query engine, today announced a fully managed Icehouse data lake on its Galaxy cloud. Icehouse is an open-source lakehouse that combines Trino and Apache Iceberg storage.

6 helpful tips to feel even more productive with your Chromebook

It’s clear that for the past decade, the media and entertainment industry has been undergoing a significant transformation. Still, consumers continue to demand more personalized and diverse entertainment offerings.

Google has added a new way for Workspace users to access generative AI (genAI) features for collaboration without requiring a full subscription to its Gemini AI assistant.

Connected, data-intensive and ubiquitous, endpoint devices — ranging from PCs and smartphones to internet of things (IoT) devices — are among the most valuable IT assets an organization can have.

If you’ve spent much time wading around this warbly ol’ web of ours lately, you might be feeling a teensy sense of unease over your internet browsing history.

Paying for browsers is no longer a memory from the 1990s Cloud Next  Hoping to upsell freeloading corporate users of its Chrome browser, Google has announced Chrome Enterprise Premium – which comes with a dash of AI security sauce for just $6 per user per month.…