This Week in Google Cloud — Outer space with Google, BigQuery-Dataprep: better together, workload prioritization with Cloud Spanner, multi-cloud for risk mitigation
It’s the week after spring break where I am. Coming out of a rather super-snowy winter, and after many days of bright spring sunshine, we are now heading into a few days of cloud and rain. While the weather is cloudy and foggy outside as I write this line, it’s always cloud and clear in this blog.
Here are some of the most exciting, fun and innovative things we announced this week.
Introducing Dataprep BigQuery pushdown
Much like the many good things with Google, Dataprep is serverless and highly scalable. We announced a new addition to Dataprep: BigQuery pushdown. BigQuery pushdown gives you the flexibility to run jobs using either BigQuery or Dataflow. This way, you can harness the power of BigQuery for highly efficient data transformations. Dataprep BigQuery pushdown leads to better performance, optimized costs, and increased security with support for IAM and OAuth. You can read more here.
How we’re working with governments on climate goals
When it comes to sustainability, we have a responsibility to work together — across governments, businesses and communities — and take action now. Kate Brandt, Google Sustainability Officer writes how we are working with governments on climate goals.
Introducing request priorities for Cloud Spanner APIs
This feature is very useful if you are running mixed workloads on Cloud Spanner instances - while running analytical workloads while processing DML statements, if you are okay with your analytical workload taking longer to run you can run them at a LOW priority, signaling to Spanner that it can reorder your more urgent work. Jerene Yang, Software Engineer in the Cloud Spanner team has more details.
New IDC whitepaper assesses multi-cloud as a risk mitigation strategy
To better understand the benefits and challenges associated with a multicloud approach, we supported IDC’s new whitepaper that investigates how multi-cloud can help regulated organizations mitigate the risks of using a single cloud vendor. Learn more or download the paper.
The Multi-cloud Future Series
I published the second post of my The Multi-cloud Future Series. From CIOs to engineers, it’s important to understand what multi-cloud actually is and to participate in your own organization’s multi-cloud strategies. You can read both parts here.
The Multi-Cloud Future — Why Just “Cloud” and Not “Multi-Cloud” Will Impede Your Business Growth
The Multi-Cloud Future (2) — Why Exactly Should You Adopt Multi-Cloud?
Outer space communication with Google Cloud
Many of us have a conscious love for outer space. (Subconsciously, ALL of us love outer space). Many new satellites are launched into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which requires a global network of antennas to operate. Ground Station-as-a-Service (GSaaS) companies such as Leaf Space give operators the ability to lease time on a ground network, and when a satellite is within its field of view, use Leaf Space’s antennas and other equipment to communicate between the satellite and ground. Leaf Space built their GSaaS solution on Google Cloud, and you can learn more in this blog post. And you can see how it works here.
