Cloud Computing

Data pipelines are the backbone of the modern enterprise, yet a barrier to entry exists for orchestrating them, making this critical capability unavailable to many data professionals. Following our announcements at Google Cloud NEXT ’26, where we introduced the Orchestration Pipelines framework, we are fundamentally changing this dynamic. To bring this powerful framework directly to […]

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2026. Today, Chris Sistrunk and Stephanie Kiel detail the critical issues facing the water sector, and actionable steps that OT operators can take to secure their infrastructure. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If

Many of the questions that matter in enterprise data aren’t just about individual rows — they’re about how things connect: how two accounts are linked, what path a payment took, what context grounds an AI agent’s answer. That’s what a graph is built to solve. Historically, unlocking these insights meant extracting data into standalone graph

When Pythian rolled out Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise across our 500-person company in 27 countries, the goal was simple: use our own company as a proving ground to discover how enterprise AI actually delivers ROI. What we found changed our strategy entirely. Since the rollout of Gemini Enterprise and our previous enterprise AI deployments, Pythian

How Gallup turned 90 years of workplace science into an AI assistant that gives leaders personalized guidance in seconds, powered by Amazon Bedrock. Gallup delivers analytics and advice to help leaders and organizations solve their most pressing problems. With more than 90 years of experience and a global reach, Gallup has developed a uniquely deep

How much to trust an AI agent is now a daily operational question. Agents read customer data, open tickets, process refunds, and delete accounts, yet most teams pick up a binary: full access or read-only. Full access is risky because agents fail unpredictably. Read-only leaves most of the agent’s value unused. The distance between what