Google Cloud stories
Many New Zealand firms say they could ride out an outage, but fewer than four in ten have tested recovery of critical systems recently.
The tie-up should help large organisations cut security complexity as they juggle email, cloud and AI threats across mixed environments.
The recognition highlights telecoms' shift towards customer- and revenue-led fault handling as operators juggle 5G, cloud and edge networks.
The migration tool rewrites complex routines into PostgreSQL cursors, but application teams must also change testing and data access for cursor-based outputs.
Database teams could cut setup and fault-finding time as Google folds natural-language guidance into Cloud SQL, Spanner and AlloyDB tools.
The retailer said the overhaul cut infrastructure maintenance by 50% and improved product recommendations, ratings and Gift Finder responses.
The bank says a single platform will tighten security, improve resilience and help it support open banking, partners and AI-driven services.
Security teams can now spot insider threats from AI agents without moving data out of Google Security Operations, reducing workflow overhead.
Organisations using Google Security Operations can now spot insider threats faster as Exabeam's behavioural analytics runs natively on Google Cloud.
Security teams may get faster detection and remediation as the platform adds governed AI agents, exposure mapping and threat-hunting tools.
Production faults are being traced in hours rather than weeks as Google shifts diagnostics to lightweight eBPF packages across its fleet.
The integration should help backup teams avoid restoring infected data after ransomware attacks, cutting recovery uncertainty for customers.
Banks and insurers could cut migration risk as Google Cloud's new AI suite maps legacy logic, tests parity and shifts data incrementally.
The upgrade lets analysts query more than 400 billion public data points directly in a single graph, easing joins with private data.
The update could help SAP users expose ERP data to AI agents without altering core systems, while cutting compute costs in BigQuery.
Stricter checks now govern the 15,000-star repository as Google tries to stop weak instructions and broken links hurting AI coding agents.
Demand for AI and core cloud services is boosting Amazon's key profit engine, with AWS growth accelerating to a 36.7% annual pace.
Amazon Web Services' in-house chips are now a major profit centre as AI demand drives cloud providers to cut costs and secure supply.
The upgrades are aimed at easing bottlenecks for large AI and machine learning deployments, with clusters now scaling to 15,000 nodes.
Boards need to rethink cyber oversight as AI speeds up attacks and raises the risk of business disruption, Google Cloud says.
