Cloud Computing

For years, Swift was perceived mainly as a UI language tied to Apple client devices. With the release of Swift 6 and strict concurrency checking, Swift has matured into a premier systems with cloud engineering language that matches Go and Rust in memory safety while running with predictable, reference-counted CPU performance. To support this ecosystem,

This is the first of a two-part series exploring how Google Cloud is bringing the foundational values of a high-performance parallel filesystem–TB/s throughput, sub-ms latency at high client scale, and POSIX support–to a broader set of use cases and users. Historically, due to the cost and special purpose nature of parallel filesystems, colder data had

The browser has changed significantly. Rather than just a window to the web, it serves as an AI workspace and central operating environment for the modern enterprise. With knowledge workers spending over 56% of their workday in the browser, it is a key gateway for daily work, complex workflows, and direct interaction with autonomous AI

Running a multi-day Availability Zone evacuation drill with ARC Zonal Shift is an effective way to prove your application can withstand a sustained impairment. Multi-Availability Zone deployment is an architectural best practice for building resilient applications on AWS, but there is a gap between deploying multi-AZ and proving it works under sustained stress. Traditional disaster

Healthcare organizations face an increasingly complex challenge: processing vast volumes of medical documents, including clinical records, claims, prior authorizations, appeals, and pharmacy data, while maintaining strict HIPAA compliance and security standards. Traditional approaches require dedicated engineering teams to build individual AI systems for each use case, each needing its own compliance infrastructure, audit trails, and

Spanner Omni, the deploy-anywhere version of Spanner, is now generally available, ready to power your most demanding production workloads in your on-premises data center or on other clouds.  With Spanner, Google pioneered the distributed SQL market over a decade ago, combining the horizontal scalability of NoSQL with the ACID compliance and strong consistency of a

Today, we’re expanding our ecosystem of managed remote MCP servers by introducing the Google Cloud CLI remote MCP server in preview. Powered by the popular gcloud and bq (BigQuery) command-line tools, this new server gives AI agents immediate, broad access to command-line operations for managing Google Cloud infrastructure and working with advanced BigQuery workflows securely

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2026. Today, Alicja Cade and Nick Godfrey, senior directors, Office of the CISO, share their guidance for cybersecurity startups on how to win over the CISOs who will become crucial business partners and customers. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are