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Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. Innovation in data processing and machine learning technology Friday, September 15, 2017 By Nick Mihailovski, Product Manager Editor’s note: Last week, the Google Data Studio team announced new features that make it even more useful for creating and sharing rich, visual reports that accelerate time-to-insight from data in a Google BigQuery-powered data warehouse. We’ve re-posted a version of the original announcement below for your convenience. Over the past six months we’ve launched over 25 new features in Google Data Studio including: ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Dan Ciruli, Product Manager The shift from on-premises to cloud computing is rarely sudden and rarely complete. Workloads move over time; in some cases new workloads get built in the cloud and old workloads stay on-premises. In other cases, organizations lift and shift some services and continue to do new developments on their own infrastructure. And, of course, many companies have deployments in multiple clouds. When you run services across a wide array of resources and locations, you need to secure communications between them. Networking may be able to solve some ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Gianluca Brindisi, Carly Schneider, and Anton Sapozhnikov, Spotify Security Platform Engineering Team, and Chris Law and Carrie McDaniel, Forseti Product Team Being able to secure your cloud resources at scale is important for all Google Cloud Platform users. To help ensure the security of GCP resources, you need to have the right tools and processes in place. Spotify and Google Cloud worked together to develop innovative security tools that help organizations protect GCP projects, and have made them available in an open source community called Forseti Security. Forseti is now open ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Lorne Kligerman, Product Manager We’re excited to announce the beta release of managed SSL certificates at no charge for applications built on Google App Engine. This service automatically encrypts server-to-client communication —  an essential part of safeguarding sensitive information over the web. Manually managing SSL certificates to ensure a secure connection is a time consuming process, and GCP makes it easy for customers by providing SSL systematically at no additional charge. Managed SSL certificates are offered in addition to HTTPS connections provided on appspot.com. Here at Google, we believe encrypted communications should ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Scott Ellis and Subhasish Chakraborty, GCP Product ManagementThis post is the second in a new “taking charge of your security” series, providing advice and best practices for ensuring security in the cloud. Check out the first post in the series, “Help keep your Google Cloud service account keys safe.” Cloud storage is well-suited to many use cases, from serving data, to data analytics, to data archiving. Here at Google Cloud, we work hard to make Google Cloud Storage the best and safest repository for your sensitive data: For example, we run on ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Sharon Maher, Managing Editor, Google Cloud Blogs and SocialFrom mobile phones to the internet, technology has revolutionized our lives — and we have programmers to thank for it. And, fortunately, now we can. Falling on the 256th day of the year, Programmer’s Day recognizes the works of programmers everywhere, from code hobbyists to technological innovators.It should come as no surprise that Programmer’s Day has a special place in our hearts. To celebrate, this year we asked our engineers to tell us about the first program they wrote that they were proud ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. Innovation in data processing and machine learning technology Monday, September 11, 2017 By Yixin Shi, Vivek Rathod and Derek Chow, Software Engineer In June, we posted a blog that taught you the basics on training a new object detection model using Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine. Today, we’ll help you take your knowledge one step further. This follow-up blog post will first teach you how to export a trained model into the SavedModel format, then deploy the model on Cloud Machine ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Dave Stiver, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform and Michael Korbacher, Director, Customer Team in Germany, Austria and Switzerland We’re excited to announce that the first Google Cloud Platform (GCP) region in Germany is now open for business. You can now choose the German region to build applications and store data.* The new German region, europe-west3, joins europe-west1 in Belgium, offering another location in continental Europe and making it easier to build highly available, performant applications using resources across both regions. Hosting applications in europe-west3 can improve latency by up to 50% for ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Sujoy Gupta, Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Platform Are you a web developer who creates websites and a different team, usually the marketing team, manages the content? Traditionally, there have been two ways to do that — neither of them great. On the one hand, you could build the website using any number of Content Management Systems (CMS) and their arcane plugins. The problem with this approach is that you’re stuck having to maintain two systems — the CMS and the web framework you used to develop the main website. Or, you ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Nathan Welch, Engineering Director/Co-founder, Smash.gg[Editor’s note: Smash.gg is an esports platform used by players and organizers worldwide, running nearly 2,000 events per month with 60,000+ competitors, and recently hosted brackets for EVO 2017, the world’s largest fighting game tournament. This is its first post in a multi-part series about migrating to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — what got them interested in GCP, why they migrated to it, and a few of the benefits they’ve seen as a result. Stay tuned for future posts that will cover more technical details about migrating specific services.]Players ... Read More