Google’s Transformation Cloud
1. Google’s Transformation Cloud
There are five primary capabilities that form the basis of the transformation cloud. They are data, open infrastructure, collaboration, trust, and sustainable technology and solutions. Let's explore each, starting with the data. Data is the key to unlocking value from AI, making it critical for innovation and differentiation. But becoming a data-driven company can be difficult, if data sets are siloed across operational and analytical data stores. According to the NewVantage Partners' Data and AI Executive Survey 2022, only 26.5% of companies have succeeded in creating a data driven organization to realize tangible and measurable value from their data. A data cloud is a unified solution to manage data across the entire data life cycle, regardless of whether it sits in Google Cloud or in other clouds. It lets organizations identify and process data with great scale, speed, security, and reliability. Leading companies like Ford, Spotify, Wayfair, and UPS use a data cloud to encourage data-driven transformation quickly, securely, and at scale, all with AI built-in. Next up is the open infrastructure. Organizations choose to modernize their IT systems on Google's open infrastructure Cloud because it gives them freedom to securely innovate and scale from on-premises to edge, to cloud on an easy, transformative, and open platform. Open infrastructure Cloud brings Google Cloud services to different physical locations while leaving the operation, governance and evolution of the services to Google Cloud. Instead of relying on a single service provider or closed technology stack, today most organizations want the freedom to run applications in the place that makes the most sense, using hybrid and multi-cloud approaches based on open source software. An open Infrastructure cloud facilitates fast innovation and reduces lock in to a single cloud provider by giving organizations the choice and flexibility to build, migrate and manage your applications across on-premises and multiple clouds. Let's take a moment to define two terms that are often confused. Open standard and open source. Open standard refers to software that follows particular specifications that are openly accessible and usable by anyone. They have guidelines for software functionality, which help avoid vendor lock in and ensure that the products that use these standards perform in an interoperable way. Examples of open standards are HTTP for requesting content on the web, or XML for storing structured data. Open source refers to software whose source code is publicly accessible and free for anyone to use, modify, and share. A decentralized community generally develops open-source software as a public collaboration, based on the philosophy of transparency and the open exchange of ideas. Open source plays a critical role in an open cloud to deliver customers the portability they expect. Google has a long history of sharing technology through open source, from projects like Kubernetes, which is now the industry standard in container interoperability in the cloud, to TensorFlow, a platform to help everyone develop and train machine learning models. Another way we provide flexibility is through hybrid and multi-cloud environments managed by products like Anthos, which is built on open technologies like Kubernetes, Istio and Knative. And finally, an open infrastructure embraces a partner ecosystem and the breadth of solutions it can offer to its customers instead of competing with it. Collaboration helps transform how people connect, create, and collaborate. A transformation cloud isn't just about technology, people and culture are just as important. Organizations have increased both location and time flexibility in work arrangements since the COVID 19 pandemic began, and hybrid work is here to stay. With the definition of the workplace forever changed, it's essential that information and frontline workers across regions and industries connect, create, and collaborate securely from anywhere and on any device. This new hybrid work environment needs to support a mix of in-person and remote interactions, including immersive digital and mobile experiences. At Google, for example, we offer a collaboration cloud through Google Workspace. Workspace brings together communication and collaboration apps including Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Meet into a people first experience powered by Google AI. A trusted cloud helps organizations protect what's important with advanced security tools. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, the annual cost of cybercrime is expected to reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. Due to the rise of cybersecurity threats, every company is rethinking its security posture. This means finding ways to identify and protect everything from people and customers to data and transactions in a fast changing environment. Organizations see the cloud as more secure than on premises, and they want to make it simple so that employees, customers, and contractors can safely access their services. They want to create better visibility to find, analyze, resist, and remediate threats at global scale and benefit from cloud innovations while maintaining control of their digital assets. Finally, a transformation cloud is built on a sustainable foundation, using technology and solutions that help organizations build and work more sustainably. Today, organizations are now encouraged to help create a cleaner, more sustainable world, and they need new technologies that help them progress consistently. According to IDC, cloud computing is estimated to save 1 billion metric tons of CO2 emissions by 2024. The largest corporations have the opportunity to lead the way in helping the world reduce its emissions and operate on carbon-free energy, always. For that reason, companies are moving to the cloud, and they want a sustainable infrastructure to power their business. At Google Cloud, for example, we partner with customers to decarbonize their digital apps and infrastructure with our sustainable technology and solutions. We proudly operate as a clean cloud with the smartest data centers that are two times as energy efficient as a typical enterprise data center. Moving to Google Cloud can dramatically decrease a customer's IT-related carbon footprint.2. Let's practice!
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