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iliasC2C Team Member

posted in Getting Started on Google Cloud

Cloud computing 101: Frequently asked questions

There are a number of terms and concepts in cloud computing, and not everyone is familiar with all of them.To help, Google Cloud has put together a list of common questions and the meanings of a few of those acronyms. We can find all these, and many more, in Google Cloud learning resources.https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/cloud-computing-101-frequently-asked-questionsImage Source: Official Google Cloud Blog

1 year ago

iliasC2C Team Member

posted in Infrastructure

UPC Polska: Transforming services and app development through hybrid IT

UPC Polska, the Polish telecommunications arm of Liberty Global Europe, offers cable television, broadband internet, and other services to roughly 1.5 million customers in Poland.To achieve agility and gain a competitive edge, UPC Polska adopted a hybrid approach to IT with the help of Anthos.Google Cloud results: Enables content personalization delivery for 1.5 million customers Improves scalability and resilience through containerized GKE clusters on Anthos Accelerates CI/CD pipeline by 2–3x for developers working in an agile hybrid environment Opens door to further IT overhauls using hybrid computing models Read the article From GKE - GKE Autopilot to Anthos. Or from Containers to Hybrid solutions? Few days ago our French Community hosted an event with Kelsey Hightower talking about GKE Autopilot.I believe we must have an event for Anthos this time. What do you think?

1 year ago

iliasC2C Team Member

posted in Data Analytics

6 database trends to watch

In a data-driven, global, and always-on world, databases are the engines that power business innovation and transformation.Check out 6️⃣ database trends to put to work to handle your infrastructure needsRead the articleImage Source: Official Google Cloud Blog

1 year ago

iliasC2C Team Member

posted in Infrastructure

Konga: Cutting cloud infrastructure costs by two-thirds

Google Cloud is showing us the money saved with Google Kubernetes Engine!Learn how Konga, Nigeria’s online marketplace, cut cloud infrastructure costs by two-thirds, from $85,000 to less than $30,000 a month by switching to a containerized solution on Google Kubernetes Engine Read the article hereCut cloud infrastructure costs by two-thirds, from $85,000 to less than $30,000 a month. Improves server response times on applications by between 5% and 400% Reduces DevOps team from eight to two, with managed solutionsThis is an amazing case study for sure!

1 year ago

iliasC2C Team Member

posted in Data Analytics

Database to Dashboard: Connecting to BigQuery and Analyzing Data with Looker

Data Analysts 👉 Learn how to model, analyze, and visualize your data in less than 30 minutes. In this demo, Product Demonstration Manager, Leigha Jarett, will walk you through setting up a connection between your BigQuery data warehouse and Looker.Once connected Leigha will show how Looker auto-generates a data model, which you can immediately explore, customize, and reuse. From there, you’ll learn how to build reports, dashboards, bring data into your workflows via alerts, integrations, and more.Register

1 year ago

scottfeldmanCommunity Member

posted in Infrastructure

Vodafone and Google Cloud to develop industry-first global data platform

Vodafone and Google Cloud today announced a new, six-year strategic partnership to drive the use of reliable and secure data analytics, insights, and learnings to support the introduction of new digital products and services for Vodafone customers simultaneously worldwide.In a significant expansion of their existing agreement, Vodafone and Google Cloud will jointly build a powerful new integrated data platform with the added capability of processing and moving huge volumes of data globally from multiple systems into the cloud. Capable of processing around 50 terabytes of data per day, equivalent to 25,000 hours of HD film (and growing), both Nucleus and Dynamo, which are industry firsts, are being built in-house by Vodafone and Google Cloud specialist teams. Up to 1,000 employees of both companies located in Spain, the UK, and the United States are collaborating on the project. Some items that strike me as particularly important about this announcement include:Google continues to move

1 year ago

iliasC2C Team Member

posted in Infrastructure

The Google Cloud Adoption Framework

Words like “rehost”, “replatform”, “refactor”, "rearchitect" are discrete migration strategies.First, #GoogleCloud may recommend you consider the Google Cloud Adoption Framework and determine whether your cloud migration needs to be tactical, strategic, or transformational.Then, armed with that insight, it’s time to consider three fundamental migration approaches: - Migration factory - Greenfield software development - Modernization factoryAfter you’ve established why your organization wants to adopt cloud and have agreed on how you would like to approach it, everything else will begin to fall into place – including things that don’t begin with the letter “R”.A great article by Alex McWilliam, Consulting & Engineering Manager, Professional ServicesThe Google Cloud Adoption FrameworkHave you used the Google Cloud Adoption Framework when you decided to do one of the R words?

1 year ago

RstarFoundational Platinum Partner

posted in AI and Machine Learning

Applied ML Summit by Google Cloud

Hi guys , Do check out this event by Google Cloud where we can learn on how to apply groundbreaking machine learning technology in projects, keep growing our skills at the pace of innovation, and boost our career.Link : https://cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/summit-ml-practitioners

1 year ago

scottfeldmanCommunity Member

posted in Infrastructure

Schlumberger Selects Google Cloud

Schlumberger Selects Google Cloud for its Enterprise-Wide SAP Migration and Modernization Google Cloud will support Schlumberger's IT services and infrastructure, providing higher levels of resiliency and scalability while reducing costs and downtime. “Enabling SAP on Google Cloud at scale, with cutting-edge infrastructure, provides Schlumberger with the agile environment needed to quickly respond to its ever-changing business demands,” said Rob Enslin, President at Google Cloud. Schlumberger's talented IT & Infra team worked at cloud speed and has already deployed more than two hundred applications onto Google Cloud, including SAP systems for ERP, Supply Chain Management, Human Capital Management, Process Orchestration, Manufacturing Integration & Intelligence, Business Planning & Consolidation and more. Truly amazing work in providing higher levels of resiliency and scalability while reducing costs and downtime.Read the full article here including a list of helpful resou

1 year ago

iliasC2C Team Member

posted in AI and Machine Learning

Real-time credit card fraud detection solution

Quantiphi has built a serverless real-time credit card fraud detection solution.This article is amazing and it gives insights of their architecture. How they used BigQuery and BigQuery ML, how they hosted BigQuery ML on AI Platform for online predictions on streaming data using Dataflow, how they set up alerts/threats with Pub/sub and how they created operational dashboards using Data Studio.If you have any case study as amazing as this, share it with the rest of our community.You can always connect with @sabina.bhasin if you want to write an articleCheck out this tutorial to learn more about this pattern and how it can be used and adapted. Feel free to reach out to their teams at Google Cloud and Quantiphi for help in making it work best for your company.

1 year ago

scottfeldmanCommunity Member

posted in Getting Started on Google Cloud

Free Google Cloud Training!

Free Google Cloud training, AppSheet Automation, & more! Check out how on this YouTube Video !

1 year ago

karentamrazyan

posted in Getting Started on Google Cloud

FREE "Develop and Deploy Windows Applications on Google Cloud Platform" Course + Certificate on Coursera until April 30th

I know, there is not much time left until April 30th, but Coursera offers the FREE course + certificate “Develop and Deploy Windows Applications on Google Cloud Platform”. There are 8 more free courses on the topics of ML etc. Check it out here: https://www.classcentral.com/report/coursera-free-certificates/

1 year ago

karentamrazyan

posted in Data Analytics

Free Course "Google BigQuery & PostgreSQL: Big Query for Data Analysis"

The course enrollment is available for FREE for the next 24 hours. Be quick, grab it now, can study later :)https://www.udemy.com/course/google-bigquery-and-postgresql-sql-for-data-analysis/?couponCode=APRBQFRE

1 year ago

iliasC2C Team Member

posted in Application Development

Introducing new connectors for Workflows

Workflow is a service to orchestrate not only Google Cloud services, such as Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, or machine learning APIs, but also external services.The new connectors for Workflows, which simplify calling Google Cloud services and APIs are here:BigQuery Cloud Build Cloud Functions Cloud Scheduler Google Kubernetes Engine Cloud Natural Language API Dataflow Cloud SQL Cloud Storage Storage Transfer Service Cloud Translation Workflows & Workflow Executionshttps://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/introducing-new-connectors-workflowsImage Source: fuckyeahreactions.tumblr.com

1 year ago

iliasC2C Team Member

posted in Data Analytics

Japan & Google Cloud

Today on the news are two articles for Japanese companies:7-Eleven Japan's built "Seven Central," a new platform for practical data use, to support the company’s future IT strategies and Digital Transformation initiatives. Learn how it leveraged #BigQuery and Apigee API management to support its data platform.https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-7-eleven-japan-built-its-new-data-platform Japan’s largest C2C marketplace, Mercari, allows 85+ million users to buy new and used items.Learn how Cloud Spanner helped the e-commerce giant launch a new mobile payment platform that is strong on scalability, availability, and performancehttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/mercari-chose-cloud-spanner-to-help-power-merpay How has Google Cloud helped your company? Share your story with us!

1 year ago

karentamrazyan

posted in AI and Machine Learning

FREE Course + Certificate "Introduction to Machine Learning" (by Duke University) on Coursera until April 30th

I know, there is not much time left until April 30th, but Coursera offers the FREE course + certificate “Introduction to Machine Learning” (by Duke University). There are 8 more free courses on the topics of GCP, AWS etc. Check it out here: https://www.classcentral.com/report/coursera-free-certificates/

1 year ago

karentamrazyan

posted in Getting Started on Google Cloud

The "Road to Google Cloud Certification" program

Hi everyone! If you always wanted to complete one of the Google Cloud certifications and can dedicate the next 6 weeks to prepare for it, then be quick and register for the "Road to Google Cloud Certification" program. The registration deadline is tomorrow (15 April 2021)!‘Road to Google Cloud Certification’ is a free 6-week guided program designed for people who want to prepare for a Google Cloud certification.Credit for this discovery goes to our amazing member @ilias https://events.withgoogle.com/road-to-google-cloud-certification/

1 year ago

EzekiasCommunity Member

posted in Application Development

New C2C Connect Group for Serverless

Create a group especially for Serverless, Security and Network.

1 year ago

JBranhamCommunity Member

posted in Getting Started on Google Cloud

Weekly Product Releases for April 26

ReleasesAI Platform - Deep Learning Containers - M67 Release Added Horovod to TensorFlow GPU containers.AI Platform - Deep Learning VMs - M67 Release GPU support added for Beam Notebooks.AppEngine Standard Python3 - Build environment variables support is now available in preview.BigQuery - BigQuery supports changing an existing non-clustered table to a clustered table and vice versa.BigQuery ML - BigQuery ML is introducing new ARIMA_PLUS models and deprecating the ARIMA model type.Billing - Budget API now supports configurable budget time periods, beyond monthly budgets Using the Cloud Billing Budget API to manage your budgets, you can now specify the time period of the budget.Cloud Composer - New versions of Cloud Composer images: composer-1.16.2-airflow-1.10.15 composer-1.16.2-airflow-1.10.14 (default) composer-1.16.2-airflow-1.10.12. Airflow 1.10.10 is no longer included in Cloud Composer images. When a GKE authorization error occurs during an environment operation, the GKE error me

1 year ago

JBranhamCommunity Member

posted in Getting Started on Google Cloud

Weekly News you can use! GCP Weekly Newsletter for April 26

Welcome to issue #239 April 26th, 2021NewsCloud Functions Official Blog PHP Serverless Introducing PHP on Cloud Functions - You can now write Cloud Functions in PHP using the Functions Framework for PHP.Cloud Spanner Official Blog Security Cloud Spanner launches customer-managed encryption keys and Access Approval - See how new customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for Google Cloud’s Spanner relational database service help control data protection and security.Anthos NoSQL Official Blog New Redis Enterprise for Anthos and GKE - Redis Enterprise is now available for GKE and Anthos from the Google Cloud Marketplace.Document AI Official Blog Customers cut document processing time and costs with DocAI solutions, now generally available - Document AI platform, Lending DocAI and Procurement DocAI are generally available.gRPC Networking Official Blog Traffic Director Proxyless gRPC adds support for advanced traffic management features - Introducing new traffic management features in gRPC to

1 year ago

scottfeldmanCommunity Member

posted in Infrastructure

How to Innovate and Transform Your Business with Google Cloud

Join Google Cloud and their partners for a multipart series of discussions on migrating SAP workloads to the cloud. Daily, May 3-7th, 11am CT. Partners will share the before and afters, plus detail the concrete benefits of migration and access to these cloud-native capabilities. Open to All! Register here.

1 year ago

scottfeldmanCommunity Member

posted in Data Analytics

I Love My Database!

Do you love your database?Did you know that Cloud Spanner launched customer-managed encryption keys and Access Approval?Cloud Spanner is Google Cloud’s fully managed relational database that offers unlimited scale, high performance, strong consistency across regions and high availability (up to 99.999% availability SLA). In addition, enterprises trust Spanner because it provides security, transparency and complete data protection to its customers. To give enterprises greater control of how their data is secured, Spanner recently launched Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK). CMEK enables customers to manage encryption keys in Cloud Key Management (KMS). Read the full blog posting here. Image from Google blog post

1 year ago

iliasC2C Team Member

posted in Infrastructure

Choosing the right orchestrator in Google Cloud

Orchestration often refers to the automated configuration, coordination, and management of computer systems and services.Google Cloud Platform offers a number of tools and services for orchestration:Cloud Scheduler for schedule-driven single-service orchestration Workflows for complex multi-service orchestration Cloud Composer for orchestration of your data workloadshttps://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/choosing-right-orchestrator-google-cloudSource: Official Google Cloud Blog One image is like one thousand words. Don’t you agree? The article is great but the diagram is even better!

1 year ago

scottfeldmanCommunity Member

posted in Infrastructure

PayPal, Google Cloud & SAP Team Up to Run Financial Workloads at Scale

PayPal, SAP & Google Cloud teamed up to demonstrate the cloud’s capabilities to run financial workloads at scale. Congrats to PayPal on being selected as a winner for the #SAPInnovation Award 2021. This is amazing ! See the post and download the presentation here. From LinkedIn posting

1 year ago

Content SabinaCommunity Member

posted in Application Development

Earth Week: A Sustainable Google Cloud Journey: An Environment-Friendly Approach to Application Development

Thank you @Vijeta90 for your insight on your Earth Week article focusing on our responsibility as technologists in the pursuit of sustainability. While people worldwide are celebrating Earth Week, it has become essential to take a step back and look at where we are with our responsibility towards the environment and how we can celebrate our planet while making technology more reliable and accessible to everyone. Google has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to climate action and environmental sensitivity, and this fidelity is evident in the company’s sustainability goal to run on carbon-free energy by 2030. However, what does this commitment mean for us, as Google Cloud users? Where does our responsibility lie in this sustainability mission? Read it here:

1 year ago

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