Cloud Computing

For the eighth consecutive year, Gartner® has named Google a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services, and this year Google is also now ranked the highest for completeness of vision. Download the complimentary 2025 Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services. How do we keep getting recognized year over year? […]

As companies integrate AI into their workflows, connecting new tools to their existing data while ensuring consistent security and accuracy becomes increasingly important. We’re introducing Looker Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, an integration in the MCP Toolbox for Databases. This allows AI applications such as chatbots and custom agents to connect to trusted data from

As NASA embarks on a new era of human spaceflight, beginning with the Artemis campaign’s aim to return to the Moon, preparations are underway to ensure crew health and wellness. This includes exploring whether remote care capabilities can deliver detailed diagnoses and treatment options if a physician is not onboard or if real-time communication with

The age of AI is here, and organizations everywhere are racing to deploy powerful models to drive innovation, enhance products, and create entirely new user experiences. But moving from a trained model in a lab to a scalable, cost-effective, and production-grade inference service is a significant engineering challenge. It requires deep expertise in infrastructure, networking,

In a prior blog post, we introduced BigQuery’s advanced runtime, where we detailed enhanced vectorization and discussed techniques like dictionary and run-length encoded data, vectorized filter evaluation and compute pushdown, and parallelizable execution. This blog post dives into short query optimizations, a key component of BigQuery’s advanced runtime. These optimizations can significantly speed up the

In a world where data is your most valuable asset, protecting it isn’t just a nice-to-have — it’s a necessity. That’s why we are thrilled to announce a significant leap forward in protecting the data in your Cloud SQL instances, with Enhanced Backups for Cloud SQL. This powerful new capability integrates Google Cloud Backup and