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Blog - Google Cloud Next 2022 - What's next?

Google Cloud Next 2022

The Google Cloud Next event kicked off on Tuesday, October 11. During this event, Google announced a large number of new offerings and partnerships. In this blog, we'll review some of these key announcements that could strengthen your use case. Read on and find out how Google Cloud can help you transform customer expectations and drive global markets.

Thomas Kurian

Google Cloud helps us advance our mission and makes Google work better.

It's what allows us to share innovation and investment, across Google, with businesses, governments and organizations around the world.

- Thomas Kurian
Director Google Cloud

Software delivery shield

With the growing adoption of open source software and the increase of cyberattack threatsWith the growing adoption of open source software and the increase in the number of open source software vendors, organizations are continually investing in their SecOps. Google is taking another step to help security teams tackle supply chain security (S3C) with its new offering Software Delivery ShieldGoogle's new S3C security offering, a fully managed, end-to-end solution that strengthens software supply chain security across the entire lifecycle, from development to delivery to procurement to CI/CD.

Consider Software delivery shield as a set of capabilities added to the existing Google Cloud software delivery blocks, such as: Cloud Run, Cloud Code, ...

software delivery shield

There are four areas with Software Delivery Shield:

  • Development environment: from laptop to production
  • Supply chain: or dependencies
  • CI/CD: how the software is presented
  • Runtime: in this case, it will be the infrastructure on which your application runs

1. Develop - Cloud Workstations, Source Protect

Cloud Workstations provides fully managed development environments on Google Cloud. Developers can access secure, fast, and customizable development environments via a browser, anytime, anywhere, with consistent configurations and customizable tools.

In Cloud Codethere is this new plugin called Source Protect, which provides real-time security feedback.

2. Supply - Assured Open Source

Assured Open Source is a collection of open source software that Google has selected and approved. These packages are built in our secure pipelines and are regularly scanned, analyzed and fuzz tested for vulnerabilities.

3. CI/CD - SLSA level 3

Cloud Build now officially supports [SLSA] Level 3 builds. SLSAThe new build, pronounced "salsa," ensures software integrity and improves the overall security of software supply chains.

This means that in addition to providing ephemeral and isolated build environments, Cloud Build can now generate authenticated, non-forgeable build provenance for containerized applications and non-containerized Maven and Python packages. In short, this means that builds are solid and no one can go back and change that.

4. Runtime - Additional security for GKE

GKE now provides detailed assessments, assigns severity ratings, and provides guidance on the security posture of clusters and workloads. This helps identify and resolve security issues in GKE clusters and workloads.

You can also think of it as a "spellchecker" for your containers. It ensures that your configured container complies with Google's recommended security best practices.

Chronicle Security Operations

Kevin Mandia

"Moore's Law may be slowing down, but threat actors in cyberspace are not."

- Kevin Mandia
Director of Mandiant

In a commitment to democratize security operations and stay ahead of growing security threats, Google Cloud unveiled Chronicle Security Operations. This cloud-native security suite that enables cybersecurity teams to better detect, investigate and respond to threats with Google's speed, scale and intelligence.

Chronicle Security Operations brings together the capabilities that many security teams rely on to identify and respond to threats faster. This is thanks to Chronicle's security information and event management (SIEM) technology, combined with orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) solutions from theacquisition of Siemplify from Google. On top of that, you get pre-packaged response playbooks from Google Cloud.

With the acquisition of Mandiantthe suite is enhanced with even more incident and exposure management and threat intelligence capabilities in the future.

BigQuery

Google Cloud is taking significant steps to provide the most open and powerful data cloud on the market, allowing customers to use all their data, from all sources, across all cloud providers and platforms.

At Google Cloud Next, Google Cloud is launching a new feature for unstructured and streaming data analysis in BigQuery that will greatly expand people's ability to work with all types of data.

BigQuery supports widely adopted data formats, including Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake and Apache Hudi.

Datastream for BigQuery helps customers replicate data from AlloyDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle directly into BigQuery to ensure that applications have the most up-to-date information.

BigQuery now offers an integrated experience for Apache Spark, a leading open-source analytics engine for big data processing.

C3 - New series of machines

Google Cloud has launched a new family of virtual machines : C3 machine series. This is the first virtual machine in the public cloud realm powered by Google's 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor and custom Intel Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU). This goes hand in hand with the recently announced Hyperdisk block storage, which offers 80% more IOPS per vCPU for high-end database management system (DBMS) workloads compared to other hyperscalers.

Instances of the C3 machine feature a System on a Chip (SoC) architecture and use offload hardware for more predictable and efficient computing, high-performance storage, and programmable packet processing capability for low latency and an accelerated, secure network.

Now you don't have to choose expensive, larger compute instances to get the storage performance you need for data workloads.

Michael Wilde

"Based on initial performance data, running weather research and forecasting (WRF) on C3 clusters can provide up to 10 times faster access time to results at about the same computational cost. This will significantly accelerate R&D for our weather, environmental and engineering customers."

- Michael Wilde
Director Parallel Works Inc.

Translation Hub

A new artificial intelligence agent has been announced to enable more inclusive and efficient global communication - Translation Hub. This AI agent provides customers with document translation capabilities in 135 languages. It takes complete documents, including images, and translates them while preserving layout and formatting, into the languages of your choice.

Vertex AI Vision

Google Cloud has launched its newest Vertex AI Vision service. This powerful computer vision and image recognition service extends the capabilities of Vertex AI to be more accessible to practitioners and data developers.

Google said it would reduce build time and allow computer vision applications to be deployed in hours instead of weeks. All while running the applications at a fraction of the cost.

To achieve these efficiencies, Vertex AI Vision provides a drag-and-drop interface and a library of pre-trained ML models for common tasks. Tasks such as occupancy counting, product recognition and object detection.

The new end-to-end application development environment will help customers ingest, analyze and store visual data. For example, traffic light tracking to manage busy intersections, or feeds from store shelves to improve inventory analysis, or video feeds in manufacturing plants to help ensure safety.

Looker

Looker Studio

Data Studio becomes Looker Studio and Looker Studio Pro. The pro version includes customer support and governance features.

Google is unifying its business intelligence portfolio under the Looker umbrella. This creates a deep integration for Looker Studio, and Google's core technologies like AI, machine learning, Google Maps, etc.

Conclusion

While brand new offerings have been announced this year, it's clear that Google Cloud is more focused on expanding its current network and increasing the maturity of its services. By offering its users more options and flexibility, Google Cloud is hinting at a future where vendor lock-in is a thing of the past thanks to the popularity of open source software and the trend away from rigid enterprise licensing.

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