THE GCU (Google Cloud Updates) V - 1.026

Welcome to V-1.026 of the GCU! As always, thank you for being part of this growing community! 

Also a huge thank you to everyone in our community that joined us last week at The GCU: Live and of course a massive thank you to our amazing speakers :) 

The next instalment of The GCU: Live takes place on the 27th April at transparent HQ, moments from Liverpool Street station. 

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As always, if you spot anything that you think should be included in the newsletter or want to have a conversation about the Google Cloud market, I can be reached at lewis@heytransparent.io

Announcements 

At MWC 2023, Google Cloud has announced three telecom products to help communication service providers (CSPs) on their networks and unlock new revenue opportunities - Google Cloud reveals telecom products to address network transformation, monetisation

Datametica, a leading data warehouse modernization and migration solution provider, launched its SaaS-based technology, Raven, on the Google Cloud Marketplace - Datametica launched its SaaS-based technology - Raven Code Conversion, on the Google Cloud Marketplace

SANS Institute, the global leader in cybersecurity training and certifications, is proud to announce the launch of the SANS Cloud Diversity Academy (SCDA), brought to you by SANS & Google -SANS Institute Partners with Google to Launch Cloud Diversity Academy

Google is expanding VPN access to all Google One members on all plans and rolling out a new dark web report feature for all subscribers - Google expands VPN access to all Google One members, rolls out new ‘dark web report’ feature

Google has confirmed its upcoming Mexican GCP cloud region will be located in Querétaro - Google confirms first Mexican cloud region will be in Querétaro

Partnerships 

Google Public Sector has announced that the University of California, Riverside (UCR) has chosen Google Cloud to modernize its enterprise infrastructure and support its cutting-edge research program. The collaboration will drive faster research results by increasing computing speed, agility, and scale for researchers, and by improving collaboration across other Research 1 (R1) institutions -The University of California, Riverside Enters Into First-of-its-kind Subscription-based Service with Google Cloud to Transform Research and IT

Google Cloud today announced a new partnership with Midjourney, an independent research lab that provides a platform for AI-powered creative tools for creating visual imagery with natural language interfaces - Midjourney Selects Google Cloud to Power AI-Generated Creative Platform

Proximus, a Belgian public company listed on the Brussels stock exchange, and Google Cloud today announced a five-year agreement to deliver sovereign cloud services in Belgium and Luxembourg - Proximus and Google Cloud to Deliver Sovereign Cloud Services in Belgium and Luxembourg

Casper Labs, the enterprise blockchain software leader, announced today an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud which includes migrating part of its infrastructure and enterprise applications to Google Cloud, and providing Casper Association grant recipients access to Google Cloud technology to help them build and scale blockchain projects and solutions on the Casper Protocol - Casper Labs Teams With Google Cloud to Enable Developers to Build and Scale Blockchain Applications on the Casper Protocol

Watershed, the enterprise climate platform, today announced a partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate climate action for joint organizations by providing them access to Watershed’s purpose-built climate software - Watershed to Accelerate Climate Action for Enterprises in Partnership with Google Cloud

Accelerating the MongoDB-Google Cloud partnership to make data more open and transformative

Google Cloud announced a new collaboration with StarHub to support its efforts to create an open and ‘scalable’ cloud-native network for enterprises in Singapore.

What's new with Google Cloud 

• Now generally available, understand and trust your data with Dataplex data lineage - a fully managed Dataplex capability that helps you understand how data is sourced and transformed within the organization. Dataplex data lineage automatically tracks data movement across BigQuery, BigLake, Cloud Data Fusion (Preview), and Cloud Composer (Preview), eliminating operational hassles around manual curation of lineage metadata. Learn more here.

• Rapidly expand the reach of Spanner databases with read-only replicas and zero-downtime moves. Configurable read-only replicas let you add read-only replicas to any Spanner instance to deliver low latency reads to clients in any geography. Alongside Spanner’s zero-downtime instance move service, you have the freedom to move your production Spanner instances from any configuration to another on the fly, with zero downtime, whether it’s regional, multi-regional, or a custom configuration with configurable read-only replicas. Learn more here.

• Automatically blocking project SSH keys in Dataflow is now GA. This service option allows Dataflow users to prevent their Dataflow worker VMs from accepting SSH keys that are stored in project metadata, and results in improved security. Getting started is easy: enable the block-project-ssh-keys service option while submitting your Dataflow job.

• Google Cloud Deploy now supports Parallel Deployment to GKE and Cloud Run workloads. This feature is in Preview. Read more.

• Add geospatial intelligence to your Retail use cases by leveraging the CARTO platform on top of your data in BigQuery

• Location data will add a new dimension to your Retail use cases, like site selection, geomarketing, and logistics and supply chain optimization. Read more about the solution and various customer implementations in the CARTO for Retail Reference Guide, and see a demonstration in this blog.

Community

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