The framework continues to grow and new features are being added every day. We’re working on getting a public image of the Framework up and running, so you, dear readers, will be able to test the speed, flexibility, and extensibility of Handshake at your convenience! Until then, the Handshake footprint grows. We’re demoing a lot. […]
Don’t Miss Out! Join Us at Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir
Experience cloud at its best during Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir, July 14 – September 8, 2020. During this 9-week event, a new topic will be covered each week, complete with virtual breakout sessions and solution keynotes. Sign in every Tuesday at 9AM PT to discover new on-demand content, demos, success stories, consult with experts, […]
Using Cloud to Solve Healthcare Pain Points
This is the second post in a series on Google healthcare capabilities. To read the first post, click here. With the healthcare industry having to quickly jump on the cloud bandwagon with telehealth recently, it is becoming apparent that a new norm is (in my millennial opinion, finally) emerging. This begs the question – how […]
HCL + Google Cloud Platform: Partnership Impact on Platforms and Customers
On June 4, HCL and Google Cloud announced the expansion of their partnership to bring HCL’s software offerings, starting with HCL Commerce, to Google Cloud Platform. Google Cloud Platform will now be the preferred cloud platform for HCL Commerce, taking advantage of the global reach, security, and elasticity of Google Cloud Platform. Why is this […]
Rapid Help for Healthcare Contact Centers Amid COVID-19 Demands
Across industries, contact centers struggle to maintain pace with concerns, questions, and urgent needs surrounding COVID-19. This reality holds especially true for healthcare payers and providers serving on the front lines, helping to save lives and communicate ever-evolving resources and instructions to the public. Contact centers are especially struggling in the following ways: Heavy call […]
Integrating Data in the Cloud For Better Care
The following is the thirteenth blog in a series about why businesses are moving to the cloud to modernize and improve business performance. Throughout this series, we have discussed the many benefits of cloud, including increased velocity for innovation, enhanced security, and the opportunity for ROI. Now we want to discuss how the cloud can […]
Google Is Going to Offer Checking Accounts Next Year
Google is going to offer checking accounts next year. That’s big, and scary, for a lot of banks. A Reuters article provided these salient quotes: “Our approach is going to be to partner deeply with banks and the financial system,” sure thin, general manager and vice-president of payments at Google, told the Wall Street Journal […]
How Cloud Improves Disaster Recovery
The following is the seventh blog in a series about why businesses are moving to the cloud to modernize and improve business performance. In our last blog in this series, we examined how security improves with cloud. In this blog, we will look at how cloud enhances disaster recovery (DR) practices and provides a better […]
Resiliency – A Core Pillar of Any Business-Critical App in the Cloud
Cloud offers undeniable benefits when it comes to building cost-effective agile solutions. Enterprise-wide pushes to modernize application stacks have added fuel to cloud migration initiatives. As more and more monoliths are decomposed and redesigned using a distributed microservices architecture, the large portfolio of cloud-native services makes developing and deploying in the cloud faster and economical. […]
4 Steps to Get Started with Containers
The following is the fifth blog in a series about software containers and Kubernetes, and their importance in modern application delivery. So far in this series, we have explored the evolution of containers, their benefits, the importance of container management platforms and how to choose which of them is best for your business, and some […]
FAQ Schema Markup – Results May Vary
At the May 2019 Google I/O event, Google Search and Google Assistant officially announced support and a new Google Search Console enhancement report for FAQ structured data. The FAQ schema.org markup is meant for Frequently Asked Question pages that contain all questions and answers on a single page. Adding it can create a FAQ rich […]
Key Considerations When Adopting Containers
The following is the fifth blog in a series about software containers and Kubernetes, and their importance in modern application delivery. In this series so far, we have looked at why businesses are turning to containers, their benefits, the importance of container management platforms, and how to choose the container management platform that’s right for […]