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Content Sabina
Content SabinaCommunity Member
posted in Infrastructure

What can companies do to be at the top of the Bob Evans Cloud Wars Top Ten list, now and three years from now?

Leadership, change management, and Google Cloud go-to-market strategy, the first C2C Navigator of the year with Bob Evans, creator of Cloud Wars Media, gave members answers to the hottest topics informing tomorrow’s decision-making. The Cloud Wars Top 10 Reports demonstrate the radiant success Google Cloud is shining on the cloud ecosystem. Now in the Top 3, Evans and Sabina Bhasin(@ContentSabina) discussed what Google Cloud is doing right and where they will be going in 2021 and beyond. But the most exciting part of our Navigator events is when we can challenge our experts to answer questions from our community. Considering the wide range and scope the Top Ten lists carry, our members wanted to know:  What can companies do to be at the top of the list, now and three years from now? Hear his answer below.  What do you think?Who do you want to see in the top 3? How would you do think about these lists differently?  

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scottfeldman
1 year ago
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Danny PancratzCommunity Member
posted in Infrastructure

Who has security tips to share with our newest community member?

In our C2C Lounge group, one of our newest community members @josecortezsv said hello with this introduction: I noticed that the #1 area Jose needs help is with finding ways to improve security. Consider this an open thread for security tips, but I also encourage you to connect with Jose if you’d like to connect one-on-one. 

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1 year ago
scottfeldman
scottfeldmanCommunity Member
posted in Infrastructure

Google launches its Serverless Database Migration Service into general availability

On March 31, Google Cloud launched its Database Migration Service into general availability. The offering will enable Google to provide more effective support to organizations modernizing on-premises workloads. It should make switching to the Google Cloud Platform from competing clouds easier as well in some cases. One of the most complex aspects of moving an application to the cloud is bringing over the database in which it stores information. Administrators have to make extensive configuration changes to the original database environment and set up a secure connection to transfer the information. Yet more time is spent on the migration itself, which can take days depending on how many records a company is moving. Google says the Database Migration Service makes the process considerably faster. Read the details of the article here. Are you interested in this topic?  Are you challenged with these same issues?  Would you like to have further discussions about it with experts?   Please l

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scottfeldman
1 year ago
scottfeldman
scottfeldmanCommunity Member
posted in Infrastructure

Does Your Business Demand Connected Clouds?

Ninety-two percent of enterprises have a multicloud strategy and 80% have a hybrid strategy, according to Flexera's 2021 State of the Cloud report. Managing those environments can be bumpy and less than half (42%) of enterprises use a mutlicloud management tools. According to Lori Mitchell-Keller, global leader of industry solutions at Google Cloud, “we have for some time now been embracing what we're calling the hybrid cloud…..”As the customer, the business has to get up to speed on the offering to make the best cloud decisions for itself. "There's a lot of different interests out there so you really have to take the time to get educated on it so you're making the right decisions.” … Are you an executive who is reading this posting and wishes to double click on this topic?   We are building some new things for this C2C Community and would like to have your input.  Multi Cloud is a hot topic and we want to know if there is interest in holding special sessions to cover this in a discuss

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mrichter
1 year ago
cdtiwari
cdtiwariCommunity Member
posted in Infrastructure

GCP Slurm Workshop expert

Dear Team,I am C.D. working in genomic research also organiser of GDG Cloud Cambridge. I am planning to organise a workshop on Slurm HPC on GCP, I am looking for help with trainer and materials. I have some github repos from Slurm but my objective is to setup HPC Cluster and run a genomics pipeline on GCP.Tentative Agenda:Introduction of HPC Deploy Slurm Cluster Slurm Cluster (Pre-emptible VMs)? → Expert advice required. Run the pipeline on the cluster.I would like to open the discussion with idea what else we can do and how can I get help with sponsor and trainer.

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JBranham
1 year ago
ilias
C2C Team Member
iliasC2C Team Member
posted in Infrastructure

Devices and zero trust

Zero Trust relies on WHO you are and WHAT you are using to determine accessPriyanka Vergadia and Max Saltonstall explain everything with their new comic!Enjoy it!source: https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/3aw48a/rule_1/Can you think of a better and/or easiest way to teach people about tech concepts than these comics?

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ilias
C2C Team Member
1 year ago
ilias
C2C Team Member
iliasC2C Team Member
posted in Infrastructure

A Google Cloud VMware Engine cheat sheet

VMware Engine is built on Google Cloud’s highly performant, scalable infrastructure with fully redundant and dedicated 100 Gbps networking, providing 99.99% availability to meet the needs of your most demanding enterprise workloads.The benefits of Google Cloud VMware Engine are:Operational continuity No retraining Infrastructure agility Security Policy compatibility Infrastructure monitoring Hybrid platform Low costLet us know:if you have used Google Cloud VMware Engine and if you like Priyanka’s drawing! (I love 😍 them by the way!) Article hereBy Priyanka Vergadia 

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Content Sabina
1 year ago
ilias
C2C Team Member
iliasC2C Team Member
posted in Infrastructure

The past, present and future of custom compute at Google

In 2015 Google  introduced the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) to customers. Without TPUs, offering many of our services such as real-time voice search, photo object recognition, and interactive language translation simply would not be possible.In 2018 Google launched Video Processing Units (VPUs) to enable video distribution to a range of formats and client requirements, supporting the rapid demand for real-time video communication scalably and effectively.Now, instead of integrating components on a motherboard where they are separated by inches of wires, Google is turning to “Systems on Chip” (SoC) designs where multiple functions sit on the same chip, or on multiple chips inside one package. In other words, the SoC is the new motherboard.An article by Amin Vahdat, Google Fellow and Vice President of Systems Infrastructure.I’m so curious to see what’s next!Image from the Official Google Cloud Blog 

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ilias
C2C Team Member
1 year ago
scottfeldman
scottfeldmanCommunity Member
posted in Infrastructure

How carbon-free is your cloud?

Did you know that Google Cloud customers can select Google Cloud regions based on the carbon-free energy supplying them? As Google works on increasing the CFE% for each of the Google Cloud regions, you can take advantage of locations with a higher percentage of carbon-free energy. You must also consider your data residency, performance and redundancy requirements, but there are some good ways to reduce the associated gross carbon emissions of your workload.   Read the details here. Is this topic important to you?  Do we have objectives in reducing the amount of energy that our operations utilize over time?  Do we set goals on minimizing carbon footprint and impact to data center operations?  Let us know if we should provide more discussion on this area of sustainability.  

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guillaume blaquiere
Foundational Platinum Partner
1 year ago
ilias
C2C Team Member
iliasC2C Team Member
asked in Infrastructure

Borrowed, not Inherit

Several years ago, before I became a father, I read an article about the earth and the future of our planet.I still remember the following line: “Our Children will not inherit the earth from us. We have borrowed the earth from them”.From that day on, I do my best not to burden the earth with what I do or should have done.That’s why reading this article from the Carbon-free for GCP team I found another reason to keep working with GCP. Google first achieved carbon neutrality in 2007.Since 2017 they’ve purchased enough solar and wind energy to match 100% of our global electricity consumption.Now they are building on that progress to target a new sustainability goal: running their business on carbon-free energy 24/7, everywhere, by 2030.Today, they are sharing data about how they are performing against that objective, so their customers can select Google Cloud regions based on the carbon-free energy supplying them.Here are some good ways to reduce the associated gross carbon emissions of y

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JBranham
1 year ago
Umarohill
UmarohillCommunity Member
asked in Infrastructure

Google Cloud launches Mission Critical Services offering

Google Cloud has launched a new Mission Critical Services (MCS) offering for its platform, with the solution available for purchase by the vendor’s Premium Support customers. The move is the latest effort by the cloud vendor to bolster its support for enterprise customers, according to Google Cloud customer experience vice president John Jester.“Our customers told us they wanted to have more support as they continued to scale their businesses on our global infrastructure,” Jester said in a blog post. “So, we overhauled our Voice of the Customer Programs, expanded our Customer Advisory Boards and launched a brand-new, independently run Google Cloud customer community. “We also rolled out Event Management Services for retailers and other businesses dealing with peak traffic loads — and introduced new Compliance and Security Assessments and Assured Workloads to make it easier for customers in regulated industries to configure their cloud environments. “Today, we’re raising the bar even fu

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ilias
C2C Team Member
1 year ago
ilias
C2C Team Member
iliasC2C Team Member
posted in Infrastructure

How COVID-19 changed the nature of IT

This is a great article from Howard Blumenstein about how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation.How COVID-19 has affected your company? Do you want to share your story? Also, on the 25th of March, 16:00-17:00 GMT our UK&I group will have their first event. The subject will be “How Google Cloud helped us react to COVID-19”. Stay tuned 

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ilias
C2C Team Member
1 year ago
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C2C Team Member
Marcy.YoungC2C Team Member
posted in Infrastructure

Who do you go to when you don't know the answer?

Since we have so many experts in Cloud Infrastructure, I’m curious, when you, as the expert, don’t know the answer who do you go to or where do you turn? Feel free to @ people and/or invite others to the community and conversation or share resources that would be helpful to the entire group. Look forward to hearing your responses!

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C2C Team Member
1 year ago
scottfeldman
scottfeldmanCommunity Member
posted in Infrastructure

Attention all Citizens! (of Pittsburgh)

Today, @GoogleCloud and @Pittsburgh are embarking on a 4-year partnership to migrate the city’s infrastructure from on-premises to Google Cloud, enabling the city to improve delivery of citizen services.What do you think?   Is this a problem today?   Do you think cloud will resolve issues in the future? Let us know. Read the article here.  

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scottfeldman
1 year ago
ilias
C2C Team Member
iliasC2C Team Member
posted in Infrastructure

DBeaver and Cloud Spanner

Cloud Spanner is too expensive for my pocket. I have used it once to check how easy it is to create and delete it immediately 😀Therefore, it makes sense to ask if there is anyone who uses it. And do you think that DBeaver’s native support will make your life easier?Doug Hungarter, Staff Interaction Designer at Google, is writing about DBeaver and Cloud Spanner in his article

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ilias
C2C Team Member
1 year ago
stevelarsen
stevelarsenCommunity Member
posted in Infrastructure

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot for Stateful Workloads on Clubhouse

Join us as at 4:30pm Pacific today as we talk about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot for Stateful Workloadsw/ Miles Ward, Kelsey HightowerCan’t join Clubhouse? Join the Meet link to listen in and participate: gcloud.at/meet

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1 year ago
JBranham
JBranhamCommunity Member
posted in Infrastructure

Google Cloud announces new GKE Autopilot...thoughts?

The product team rolled out the new GKE autopilot last week and I wanted to assess whether the community sees this as a big deal, about time, under the noise floor?  We are working on building out some applications and infrastructure programming for the community and I wanted to test whether it was worth chasing down Drew and the GKE product team around this topic. Blog Post Here → https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/introducing-gke-autopilot

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ilias
C2C Team Member
1 year ago
ilias
C2C Team Member
iliasC2C Team Member
posted in Infrastructure

Cloud Storage Transfer Appliance

Today I read this article on 5 ways to upload content to Cloud Storage,I have used 4 out of 5. I have never used the Cloud Storage Transfer Appliance.Has anyone in our community used it?What is the process? How is it done?How much data did you have and decided to use it? How long did it take you?It would be great if one could share his story

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ilias
C2C Team Member
1 year ago
ilias
C2C Team Member
iliasC2C Team Member
posted in Infrastructure

Stepping up business transformation with SAP RISE and Google Cloud

The truth is that I have not worked much with SAP. And I'm amazed at what they have done to digitally transform their customers.https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/sap-google-cloud/how-google-cloud-is-supporting-sap-riseAre you a SAP customer?What products do you use before you go to the Cloud?How satisfied are you with your digital transformation?Let us know!

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1 year ago
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Danny PancratzCommunity Member
posted in Infrastructure

Reference architectures for Cloud Instructure

Let’s use this thread to identify reference architectures that can be leveraged when building and scaling your cloud landscape. Are there proven architecture templates or best practices you reference?Do you have any advice or recommendations?Can you share an overview of your architecture?

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1 year ago
scottfeldman
scottfeldmanCommunity Member
posted in Infrastructure

Attention Retailers: Learn about SAP on Google Cloud to Future Proof your Retail Operations

In partnership with Google Cloud, this ASUG webcast will deliver insights designed to support your work with SAP technology.We will walk you through the differentiators of running SAP workloads on Google Cloud through the lens of an SAP for Retail customer. Learn the different retail personas of CIO, retail merchant, and category manager to solve challenges like business visibility, sales and inventory optimization, cross-organization collaboration, and gaining customer insights.  Register HERE and join on March 10, 2021 at 2pm Eastern! 

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ilias
C2C Team Member
1 year ago
alex.maksymec
C2C Team Member
alex.maksymecC2C Team Member
posted in Infrastructure

C2C Deep Dives Discussion: Serverless Compute Security on Google Cloud

Hello everyone,Setting this thread up ahead of next week’s C2C Deep Dive on serverless security options, hosted by community member @guillaume blaquiere. Guillaume will go through a full presentation he’s already prepared. If you have any questions you know you’ll want to ask, share them here in this thread! We can also return here to continue any discussion that comes out of this session. Looking forward to having you join us next week!Sign up for the C2C Deep Dive here. C2C Deep Dives invite members of the community to bring their questions directly to presenters. Submit your questions in advance by participating in our event discussion below.Last, if you have your own story to share on a Deep Dive. you can DM me or reach out to me at alex.maksymec@c2cglobal.com.

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ilias
C2C Team Member
1 year ago
scottfeldman
scottfeldmanCommunity Member
posted in Infrastructure

Are You Using the Industry's Most Trusted Cloud?

Google Cloud is a leader in security, and with the recent revelations about the attacks on the software supply chain impacting governments and other organizations, customers need confidence in the providers to whom they entrust their mission-critical processes and information assets. Get the details on why Google Cloud is the most Trusted Cloud here. 

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ilias
C2C Team Member
1 year ago
ilias
C2C Team Member
iliasC2C Team Member
posted in Infrastructure

Demystifying event filters in Eventarc

Eventarc enables you to read events from Google Cloud sources (via its Audit Logs integration) and custom sources (via its Pub/Sub integration) and then route them to Cloud Run services.The event routing rules are defined with a trigger. We can configure these triggers with the right event filters.Triggers with Cloud Console, it’s the easiest way Pub/Sub triggers with gcloud, you’ll need to do a little bit of work & Audit Log triggers with gcloud, are more complicated, as you’re dealing with multiple event source types, not just Pub/SubA great article from Mete Atamel Developer AdvocateHas anyone used it and wants to share tips with us? 

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ilias
C2C Team Member
1 year ago
ilias
C2C Team Member
iliasC2C Team Member
posted in Infrastructure

How Memorystore cut costs in half for Quizlet’s Memcached workloads

Quizlet is an online learning community and provider of study resources to students and teachers. With over 50 million monthly users.For a more secure and convenient solution to Memcached node scaling, they switched to Google Cloud's Memorystore. The results were:cut costs by half,using only a quarter of their capacity,bigger footprint,reduced Memcached ops time,easier monitoring now,scaling is so much easierbut the most important is that it eliminated a lot of stress for the SRE teamhttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/memorystore-helps-cut-costs-and-improve-sreFor me, the elimination of stress from the SRE team is the most important result. People without or with less stress will be much more productive! I would love to read your opinions!

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ilias
C2C Team Member
1 year ago

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