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Reimagining AutoML With Google Research: Announcing Vertex AI Tabular Workflows
Earlier this year, we shared details about our collaboration with USAA, a leading provider of insurance and financial services to U.S. military members and veterans, who leveraged AutoML…
June 24, 2022
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Collaborative Research In Immunology With The Allen Institute And Google Cloud
Previously in the background, immunology has become a mainstream topic in the past few years…
June 16, 2022
No More Normal? No Problem When You Build Supply Chains With Data And AI
What if, after all the upheavals and innovations of the past two years, we’re not headed for…
June 14, 2022
Maintenance Made Flexible: Cloud SQL Launches Self-Service Maintenance
Routine maintenance is critical in the upkeep of any healthy database system. Maintenance…
May 30, 2022
Tick Data Analytics Performance In Google Cloud Improves Up To 18x In Latest STAC Benchmark
The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC®), an organization that improves technology…
May 20, 2022
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Solving For Food Waste With Data Analytics In Google Cloud
With over ⅓ of the food in the USA ending up as waste according to the USDA, it is a compelling challenge to address this travesty. What will happen to hunger, food prices, trash…
May 17, 2022
Report: What It Will Take For CEOs To Fund A Sustainable Transformation
Climate-induced wildfires, massive storms, and deadly heat waves, along with the complexities around managing sustainable supply chains and emissions reduction, have awoken the corporate world…
April 27, 2022
Government Workers Say Microsoft Tech Makes Them Less Secure: New Survey
Prior to joining Google Cloud, I spent 20 years in the public sector serving in various security roles, most recently as the head of the cybersecurity division at the newly established…
April 14, 2022
Shoppers Know What They Want. Does Your Site’s Search Understand?
How many times has a shopper searched for a product on a store’s website only to get results that aren’t relevant—or worse, provided no search results at all? While most ecommerce sites have…
April 12, 2022
Using VACUUM To Accelerate Transaction ID Freezing In Cloud SQL For PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL uses transaction IDs (TXIDs, XIDs) to implement Multi-Version Concurrency Control semantics (MVCC). The PostgreSQL documentation explains the role of TXIDs as follows:…
March 15, 2022
New Benchmarks For Securing Chrome From The Center For Internet Security
As the way people work continues to evolve, keeping security policies in place that protect organizations but give workers the ability to get things done is more important than ever. IT and…
March 11, 2022
Google Cloud Data Heroes Series: Meet Lynn, A Cloud Architect Equipping Bioinformatic Researchers With Genomic-Scale Data Pipelines On GCP
Google Cloud Data Heroes is a series where we share stories of the everyday heroes who use our data analytics tools to do amazing things. Like any good superhero tale, we explore our Google…
March 10, 2022
Healthcare Industry Trends 2022: Data Empowers Patients, Researchers, Partners
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to push the healthcare and life sciences industry in entirely new ways. In record time, we’ve witnessed public health officials, vaccine developers, equipment…
February 24, 2022
The Take: Global Tech Antitrust Picks Up Where Anti-Globalization Left Off
What’s News This week, a U.S. Senate committee moved forward a bipartisan billed aimed at curbing the power of big tech by forbidding the large tech platforms from promoting their own products…
January 24, 2022
Retailers Now Need To “Always Be Pivoting.” Here’s Three Moves Keeping Them Going
For years, retailers have been told that they must embrace a litany of new technologies, trends, and imperatives like online shopping, mobile apps, omnichannel, and digital transformation. In…
January 23, 2022
The Take: New Technology Could All But Prevent Counterfeit Drugs From Reaching Consumers
What’s News Counterfeit versions of biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences’ HIV medicines ended up on pharmacy shelves and in patients’ hands, according to court documents recently…
January 23, 2022
Patterns For Better Insights And Troubleshooting With Hybrid Cloud Logs
Hybrid and multi-cloud environments produce a boundless array of logs including application and server logs, logs related to cloud services, APIs, orchestrators, gateways and just about…
January 20, 2022