Google Cloud named the top Insight PaaS vendor—and a collaboration leader

Google Cloud Newsletter, August 2017. Cloud trends, resources, and platform news.

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Newsletter  |  August 2017 Google Cloud Platform is the leader. GCP earns the top spot in the latest Forrester Wave™ Insight PaaS Report, Q3 2017. READ MORE

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PLATFORM NEWS We're partnering with Citrix for cloud-based desktop apps. A new collaboration pairs Google scale and stability with Citrix app management, delivery, and desktop virtualization. Use your desktop apps anywhere—on any device. Cloud Dataproc 1.2: faster Spark and Hadoop on GCP. A flurry of performance enhancements, component updates, API changes, and new features and fixes make Cloud Dataproc 1.2 even faster and easier to use. Compute Engine offers more options—and massive price cuts. GCE already offers industry-leading price and performance. Now Local SSDs cost 63% less and preemptible VMs are up to 71% less. Faster internet with new GCP congestion control. The algorithm that accelerated YouTube network throughput up to 14% has come to GCP. Lower latency across Google services means faster access to your data—and faster page loads for your users.

RESOURCES Build your own multilingual chatbot using Cloud Machine Learning APIs. Add ML with an API call. Build a conversational app—or one that transcribes speech to text in 40 lines of Bash. Cloud Shell's code editor now in beta: edit code right in your browser. The editor now lives side by side with the Cloud Shell window. No more toggling from editing to building to testing. See how Traveloka uses GCP to stream analytics in its multi-cloud architecture. Traveloka and WePay use stream analytics to create real-time data processing pipelines. Now you can, too. New to containers? Check out the Google Container Builder video series. Follow this multi-part video tutorial to learn how Container Builder can simplify working with and managing containers. Get started with Cloud Spanner in five minutes—on us. Spin up and start playing with a single-node Cloud Spanner cluster in no time with $300 in credit from the GCP free trial. How Nintendo, DeNA, and GCP launched Super Mario Run. In 150 countries. At once. Why did DeNA choose App Engine? It can serve 40 million downloads in four days—and GCP has great customer service. Hands-on labs for scientific data processing on GCP. You don't have to be a scientist to take these labs which cover everything from basic steps to advanced modeling.

UPCOMING EVENTS Open Source Summit September 11–14, 2017 Cloud-Native Roadshow Visiting cities worldwide through September 2017 Google Cloud Summit Catch up with us in 21 cities across 4 continents. Veritas Vision September 18–20, 2017 Google Cloud OnAir Webinars Connect live with Google Cloud product managers and engineers as they tackle the latest cloud topics.

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