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Google Cloud Blog

Get started with the Claude apps gateway for Google Cloud

Anthropic's agentic coding tool Claude Code has worked with Google Cloud for a while now. An individual developer could easily point CLAUDE_CODE_USE_VERTEX=1 at a Google Cloud (GCP) project, grant the role roles/aiplatform.user, and inference stays inside your Google Cloud perimeter. That flow works great when it’s just you, or a handful of engineers. But rolling it out across an organization forces you to deal with enterprise friction: you have to manage per-developer cloud credentials, push a

AI & Machine LearningDevelopers & Practitioners
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Google Cloud Blog

Google named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for third year in a row

For the third consecutive year, Google has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. This recognition comes on the heels of Google Cloud Next 2026, where we feel we showcased a fundamental evolution in how enterprises interact with data: the shift from a reactive system of intelligence to a proactive system of action. As organizations rapidly evolve to incorporate autonomous AI into daily operations, Looker and Google are

Business Intelligence
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Google Cloud Blog

New IDC study: The business value of Mandiant Consulting

Security leaders are now expected to protect business growth and clearly articulate security value to their board of directors, in addition to managing risk. While translating technical defense into measurable financial returns can be challenging, Mandiant Consulting can help you bridge the gap. Organizations that engaged with Mandiant Consulting reported an average annual benefit of $4.3 million, driving a 268% three-year ROI, with a payback period of just 4.1 months, according to a new IDC Bus

Security & Identity
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Google Cloud Blog

Google Cloud confirmed to offer a safer choice for EU public sector organizations with Dutch DPIA approval

At Google Cloud, we are committed to providing public sector organizations around the globe with cloud technology that is highly flexible, scalable, and built with market-leading standards for data protection, sovereignty, and security. We understand that for public sector organizations in the European Union, confidence in data protection is not just a preference — it’s a prerequisite.  Today, we’re excited to announce a major milestone that reinforces this commitment for Google Cloud. Dutch gov

Public SectorSecurity & Identity
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Microsoft Azure Blog

Proving application resilience on Azure with Chaos Studio

Azure Chaos Studio helps organizations validate application resilience by simulating outages, failovers, network disruptions, and infrastructure failures before they impact production. The post Proving application resilience on Azure with Chaos Studio appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

AI + machine learningDatabasesHybrid + multicloud
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ExternalSoftware Engineering
GitHub Blog

6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week

These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors. Turn these on, and your project will be meaningfully harder to attack than it was before. The post 6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Application securityMaintainersOpen Source
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