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Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacenter networking evolution

Google networking leaders reflect on the milestones that led to Jupiter supporting 13 petabits per second bandwidth, and what comes next.

Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware transport, to the ecosystem

Falcon enables an order-of-magnitude improvement over software-only transports. Today at the OCP Global Summit, Google is excited to open Falcon to the ecosystem through the Open Compute Project.

Colossus for Rapid Storage

Colossus’s performance comes from its stateful protocol, which plays a pivotal role in the new Rapid Storage offering launched at Google Cloud Next '25.

History of massive-scale sorting experiments at Google

Confidential VMs

Google Cloud will now offer the ability to encrypt data in use, while it’s being processed in a Google data center

How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops

Available on Google Cloud: Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory

In-memory workloads continue to be the backbone of innovative data management use cases, but as demand increases, so does the need for even larger memory capacity. In July, we announced a partnership with Intel and SAP to offer GCP virtual machines supporting Intel® Optane DC™ persistent memory for SAP workloads. This…

Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster

Learn about the architectural innovations we used to build a 130,000-node Kubernetes cluster, and the trends driving demand for these environments.

Capacitor, BigQuery’s next-generation columnar storage format

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL under the hood: Columnar engine

In this technical deep dive, we take a look at the columnar engine that delivers industry leading query performance for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL.

Persistent Disk performance overview | Compute Engine

Spanner: TrueTime and external consistency

Understand Spanner's TrueTime and external consistency, ensuring globally consistent reads and writes across the distributed database.