Google Cloud's Spanner database has been recognized as the top operational cloud DBMS for lightweight transactions by Gartner, achieving a 4.9/5.0 score for transactional consistency and 4.6/5.0 for A…
Modal introduced Servers, a new ultra-low-latency HTTP serving solution for serverless applications, built on Pingora, Envoy, and Spanner. The system minimizes overhead by avoiding control-plane looku…
Google Cloud Next 2026 shifted focus from model size to agentic control planes, with Google repositioning Gemini as a connective layer and launching the Agentic Data Cloud. Gartner predicts 40% of ent…
Google announced new data agents and tools for its Agentic Data Cloud, including Conversational Analytics across BigQuery, Lakehouse, AlloyDB, Spanner, and Cloud SQL, as well as Data Engineering, Data…
Google Cloud Spanner now supports multiple data models—relational, vector, graph, and analytic—within a single globally distributed instance, eliminating the need for separate databases for AI workloa…
Google announced managed and remote MCP support for its Cloud databases (AlloyDB, Spanner, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Firestore) to enable AI agents to interact with customer databases. The company also…
Updates to Google Cloud's Database Center, a unified management tool for its database fleet, now enhanced with Gemini-powered AI for observability and optimization. Key features include AI-driven reco…