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Ten years, three months and 30 days ago, we wrote our first post on this blog , and now, we’re writing our last at this particular web address. Today, it’s with great excitement that we pres...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/08/weve-moved-come-see-our-new-home.html

The month of July saw our Google Cloud Next ‘18 conference come and go, and there was plenty of exciting news, updates and demos to share from the show. Here’s a look at some of the most-read...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/08/last-month-today-july-on-gcp.html

By James O’Keeffe, Senior Site Reliability Engineer To support our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers, we run a complex global network that depends on multiple providers and a lot of hard...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/08/repairing-network-hardware-at-scale-with-sre-principles.html

By Dan Ciruli, Product Manager Today, Google Cloud is proud to announce, together with our collaborators, that the Istio open-source project has reached the 1.0 milestone . This is a key step ...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/istio-reaches-1-0-ready-for-prod.html

By Etan Shaul, Software Engineer Great news for IntelliJ users: You can now use Google Cloud services and APIs right from JetBrains’ integrated development environment (IDE). With the Cloud ...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/access-google-cloud-services-right-from-intellij-idea.html

By Jay Judkowitz, Sr. Product Manager If you’re responsible for application performance and availability, you know how hard it can be to see it through the eyes of your customers and end user...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/drilling-down-into-stackdriver-service-monitoring.html

By Jay Judkowitz, Sr. Product Manager Like all good IT organizations, you religiously measure the performance and availability of your services and applications. But if those apps run in the cl...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/transparent-slis-see-google-cloud-the-way-your-application-experiences-it.html

By Melody Meckfessel, Vice President, Engineering, Google Cloud Software development has come a long way from the days of “it compiles, ship it!” Today’s software teams need to deliver m...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/accelerating-software-teams-with-cloud-build.html

By Melody Meckfessel, Vice President, Engineering, Google Cloud Today, Google Cloud and GitHub are delivering a new integrated experience that connects GitHub with Google’s Cloud Build , our ...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/go-fast-safely-and-easily-with-cloud-build-and-github.html

By Brad Calder, VP of engineering, GCP When choosing a cloud to host your applications, you want a portfolio of database options—SQL, NoSQL, relational, non-relational, scale up/down, scale i...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/on-gcp-your-database-your-way.html

By Paul Nash, Group Product Manager, Google Compute Engine The promise and benefit of the cloud has always been flexibility, low cost, and pay-per-use. With Google Compute Engine, custom machin...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/announcing-resource-based-pricing-for-google-compute-engine.html

By Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Technical Infrastructure In the decade since cloud computing became mainstream, it’s captured the hearts and minds of developers and enterprises everywh...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/cloud-services-platform-bringing-the-best-of-the-cloud-to-you.html

By Eyal Manor, Vice President, Engineering Every business wants to innovate—and deliver—great software, faster. In recent years, serverless computing has changed application development, br...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/bringing-the-best-of-serverless-to-you.html

By Nan Boden, Senior Director, Global Technology Partnerships, Google Cloud, and Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Distinguished Engineer Our customers do extraordinary things with their data. But as ...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/intel-and-sap-partnership-brings-persistent-memory-to-gcp-vms.html

By Neal Mueller, Product Lead Whether you’re moving data to or from Google Cloud, or are knee-deep plumbing your cloud network architecture, there’s a lot to learn at Google Cloud Next 2018...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/5-must-see-network-sessions-at-google-cloud-next-2018.html

By Paris Pittman, Kubernetes Community Manager, Google Today at the Open Source Awards at OSCON 2018, Kubernetes won the inaugural Most Impact Award, which recognizes a project that has had a ...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/kubernetes-wins-oscon-most-impact-award.html

By Shan Kulandaivel, Product Manager, Google Compute Engine Many of our customers with hybrid cloud environments rely on VMware software on-premises. They want to simplify provisioning and enab...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/vmware-and-google-cloud-building-the-hybrid-cloud-together-with-vrealize-orchestrator.html

By Jay Judkowitz, Senior Product Manager and Mark Carter, Group Product Manager Next week at Google Cloud Next ‘18 , you’ll be hearing about new ways to think about and ensure the availabil...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/sre-fundamentals-slis-slas-and-slos.html

By Venkat Krishnamurthy, Vice President, Product, MapD Editor’s note: Today, we hear from our partner MapD , whose data analytics platform uses GPUs to accelerate queries and visualizations. ...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/bringing-gpu-accelerated-analytics-to-gcp-marketplace-with-map-d.html

By Hanan Youssef, Product Manager Today we are announcing the general availability of Google Compute Engine “ultramem” memory-optimized machine types. You can provision ultramem VMs with up...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/now-shipping-ultramem-machine-types-with-up-to-4tb-of-ram.html

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

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/improving-our-account-management-policies-to-better-support-customers.html

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

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/top-storage-and-database-sessions-to-check-out-at-next-2018.html

By Anil Dhawan, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform Building, deploying and managing applications with Kubernetes comes with its own set of unique challenges. Today, we are excited to be the...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/introducing-commercial-kubernetes-applications-in-gcp-marketplace.html

By Deepti Srivastava, Product Manager, Cloud Spanner We launched Cloud Spanner to general availability last year , and many of you shared in our excitement: You explored it, started proof-of-co...

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/cloud-spanner-adds-import-export-functionality-to-ease-data-movement.html

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

http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/our-los-angeles-cloud-region-is-open-for-business.html