Data retention is crucial for customers especially in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and government. Customers can use write once, read many (WORM) storage to meet their data retention needs, keeping their data immutable, and comply with industry regulations set forth by governing bodies such as FINRA …

The threat landscape is rapidly evolving, with data destruction attacks increasingly pervasive and more sophisticated than in years past. Today’s threat actors are constantly identifying new pathways to target data and to limit organizations’ ability to recover from attacks. Backups have long been the solution to rapid recovery …

In today's business landscape, data availability and integrity are paramount. Disasters, whether natural or man-made, can disrupt operations and pose a significant risk to critical information. To address this, today we are introducing Persistent Disk Asynchronous Replication, which enables disaster recovery for Compute Engine workloads by replicating data between …

Open ecosystems and collaborative partnerships matter, particularly with cloud infrastructure solutions. Google Cloud maintains a robust partner ecosystem that encourages companies like file-data-services provider Nasuni to create innovative solutions that run on its infrastructure. Partners can leverage what Google Cloud has built and advanced over many years to offer …

De-identification of Cloud Storage just got easier Many organizations require effective processes and techniques for removing or obfuscating certain sensitive information in the data they store. An important tool to achieve this goal is de-identification. Defined by NIST as a technique that “removes identifying information from a dataset so …

Encryption is critical for securing sensitive data while it is stored and transits the cloud. Today, Cloud Storage encrypts data server-side with standard Google-managed encryption keys by default, and can also encrypt data with customer-managed encryption keys that are stored and managed by Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS …

Cloud storage enables organizations to reduce costs and operational burden, scale faster, and unlock other cloud computing benefits. At the same time, they must also ensure they meet privacy and security requirements to restrict access and protect sensitive information. Security is a common concern we hear from companies as …