Cloud Computing

You heard at Next ‘25 that native support for the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) API in Spanner is available in preview, providing near-zero code-change application migration, along with a suite of complementary tools for zero-downtime data migration.  Spanner is known for its robust SQL support, ACID transactions, and change data capture (CDC), provided as a […]

At Google Cloud Next 25, we announced the general availability of Database Center, an AI-powered unified fleet management solution that simplifies all aspects of database fleet management including monitoring, optimization, and security.  Database Center replaces fragmented tools, complex scripts, APIs, and other error-prone workflows that companies use to monitor their database fleets, delivering an integrated

Google Cloud Marketplace – a universal catalog of solutions from Google and our partners – is an integral part of how we go-to-market with our valued partner ecosystem.  We are excited to expand Google Cloud Marketplace – most notably and recently, with AI Agent Marketplace, a new category that enables customers to easily discover, buy,

For AI-powered agents to perform useful, real-world tasks, they need to reliably access tools and up-to-the-minute information that lives outside the base model. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) is designed to address this, providing a standardized way for agents to retrieve that crucial, external context needed to inform their responses and actions. This is vital

Organizations are rapidly integrating generative AI in ways that directly impact all employees, not just technical teams. We’re seeing this across a variety of customer use cases. For instance, Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs reports employees saving an average of five hours weekly using Gemini in Gmail for tasks like drafting emails. Hog Island Oyster

The world of generative AI is moving fast, with models like Lyria, Imagen, and Veo now capable of producing stunningly realistic and imaginative images and videos from simple text prompts. However, evaluating these models is still a steep challenge. Traditional human evaluation, while the gold standard, can be slow and costly, hindering rapid development cycles.

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this monthly round-up, we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories.  For

As organizations adopt DevOps practices, application developers are increasingly expected to not only build applications but also manage and operate the databases they use. This added responsibility can prolong the application development process and time to market, primarily because developers must often manage and operate these critical systems without specialized database expertise. To help, we