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Protecting a global network against persistent and constantly evolving cyber threats is one of the most important challenges faced by Google Cloud. So, how does Google’s global network protects seven different global businesses, each with over 1 billion customers, including popular Google services such as Google Search, YouTube, Maps, and Gmail?
The answer is a multi-step process, which is constantly changing and evolving to stay one step ahead of the malicious hackers and attackers. For instance, it’s network communications protocols—the rules that enable communications between systems—change multiple times per second to make malicious intrusions much harder.
Data in Google Cloud is encrypted both in transit and at rest. Google’s network capacity far exceeds any traffic load it hosts to thwart and DDoS attack. In addition, it has numerous other products, tools, and processes at work to provide defense in depth.
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A New Milestone: Istio Comes Closer to Cloud-native Ecosystem
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Today we are excited to announce that Google and the Istio Steering Committee have submitted the Istio project for consideration as an incubating project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This is a significant milestone for Istio and its community, and we are thrilled to reach this next step in the evolution of the project.
Google and Istio
Google originated the Istio project, which alongside Kubernetes and Knative, is a critical part of cloud-native infrastructure. The Istio project has found success and maturity in its current model — being adopted by hundreds of organizations and bringing in over 4,000 developers for IstioCon.
For over 20 years, Google has helped shape the future of computing with its open source contributions and has invested deeply to unlock innovation for our customers. Istio extends Kubernetes to establish a programmable, application-aware network using the Envoy service proxy. Istio works with both Kubernetes-based and traditional workloads, and brings standard, universal traffic management, telemetry, and security to complex deployments. Finding a home in the CNCF brings Istio closer to the cloud-native ecosystem and will foster continuing open innovation.
The Istio journey
We started to develop Istio in partnership with teams at IBM and Lyft in 2016 based on patterns that were being used to connect Google production applications. Google’s security focus complemented the traffic management focus of an open-source project published by IBM, and those two teams decided to collaborate on Istio directly. Istio was launched “fully formed” in May 2017, with the v0.1 release featuring sidecar-powered traffic control, observability and policy features — the things that today define a service mesh. Istio has been open source from the beginning, and has a governance structure that promotes continuous contribution and project engagement.
By the release of v0.3 a few months later there were users trusting it in production, seeing immediate benefits from its powerful features. The project reached v1.0 in July 2018, and was being used at scale by eBay and The Weather Company. Google led a major re-architecture with the release of v1.5, unifying the control plane into a single service. This change, based on user feedback, reduced administrative overhead, as was later written about in the IEEE Software journal. We also greatly simplified extensibility of the mesh by building support for WebAssembly plugins into Envoy.
Istio is now offered as a managed or hosted service by over 20 providers, including Anthos Service Mesh, a suite of tools that helps you monitor and manage a reliable service mesh on-premises or on Google Cloud.
The future of Istio as a project in the CNCF
At Google, we believe that using open source comes with a responsibility to contribute, sustain, and improve the ecosystem, and we are committed to improving critical cloud-native projects on behalf of our customers and the community at large. Google has made over half of all contributions to Istio and two-thirds of the commits, as measured by the CNCF DevStats.1 After deciding to adopt Envoy for Istio, Google rose to be Envoy’s number-one contributor.2
Istio is the last major component of organizations’ Kubernetes ecosystem to sit outside of the CNCF, and its APIs are well-aligned to Kubernetes. On the heels of our recent donation of Knative to the CNCF, acceptance of Istio will complete our cloud-native stack under the auspices of the foundation, and bring Istio closer to the Kubernetes project. Joining the CNCF also makes it easier for contributors and customers to demonstrate support and governance in line with the standards of other critical cloud-native projects, and we are excited to help support the growth and adoption of the project as a result.
Istio is key to the future of Google Cloud and if the project is accepted, Google will continue to strategically invest in Istio as a key maintainer and through ongoing investment in engineering for upstream contributions.
1. https://istio.teststats.cncf.io/d/5/companies-table?orgId=1
2. https://envoy.devstats.cncf.io/d/5/companies-table?orgId=1
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Transform Your Business with Google’s Open, Hybrid, and Multi-Cloud Enterprise Network
Modernization and digital transformation starts with the network, which must enable agile access to the innovation promised by cloud, as well as simplified models for multi-cloud, multi-platform deployments. The network must evolve to provide agility, simplicity, and openness that is needed to power this transformation.
Google’s enterprise network is revolutionizing the enterprise networks paradigm, enabling you to use Google’s network as your own to connect your offices, branches, data center, Google, and other public clouds. It provides innovative technical and business models for open multi-cloud, application-centric networks, and integrates with a partner ecosystem, so that you can leverage your current on-premises site investments.
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Indian Retailer Figures Optimizes Hyperlocal Delivery to Increase Customer Experience
Anyone who follows the Indian e-commerce scene knows that one of the largest challenges these companies face is hyperlocal delivery.
That was a problem facing Wellness Forever, a retail chain of pharmacies with 150-plus stores across India.
“Exactly a year ago, we started our journey of hyperlocal deliveries. This optimization was a big time challenge for us to understand how to optimize this,” Palani Subbiah, CTO, Wellness Forever.
The problem in front of Wellness Forever was to identify which customer could can be sold from which store, so that a delivery could be made within 90 minutes.
“We handle a large amount of customer data and we wanted to use insights to help and improve the customer satisfaction index,” says Subbiah.
To do that Wellness Forever leveraged Google Big Query to run massive amount of data to come up with the operational insights. They also used Firebase and Google Maps.
“By 2021, we are going to have about 450 stores. Those stores are going to be not only a physical store, which is a digital store.
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Target Leverages Google Cloud to Create Market-defining Online Experience
In the hyper-competitive world of online retail sales, ease-of-use and transaction speed can make or break business outcomes. However, a few years ago US Retail giant Target was going through a period of uncertainty.
While the company had over 1800 stores across the US with an estimated 85% of US consumers shopping at a Target store and over 25 million people visiting the Target website or using its app each month, it was still losing ground.
In spite of having millions of loyal customers, the company was dangerously late on digital and its technology wasn’t keeping pace with unstable systems to boot. The company faced the twin challenges of trying to operate today’s business as efficiently as possible and creating tomorrow’s business as quickly as possible. On the one hand it needed productivity and stability and on the other it wanted speed and disruption. Not an easy task to accomplish.
That’s when Target decided to use Google Cloud to solve its challenges. See how Target leveraged Google Cloud to create a market-defining online experience that has made customers happier and more loyal.
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