Category: Technologies

Google Next 2025: AI at the center of Google Cloud’s innovations

This year’s Google Cloud Next ’25 conference was a powerful demonstration of Google’s commitment to the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its integration with the entire cloud ecosystem. The event was packed with announcements regarding infrastructure, AI models, developer tools, data analysis, security, and industry solutions. The main message of the conference was that...

FOTC Team 17 April 2025

Google Cloud

High Availability – what is it and how does it work?

A potential failure and the resulting business downtime is a real nightmare for business. Is there any way to ensure the systems are as reliable as possible? The solution may be the use of the cloud, especially high-availability services. One of the key aspects of IT disaster recovery is ensuring operational performance in case of...

Beata Socha 26 April 2024

Technologies

What is a data warehouse? Definition and key concepts

Do you know what data your company has? What digital footprints are left by website customers? What is in your CRM systems, company spreadsheets, or analytical tools linked to the website? I bet you or your colleagues monitor this data, conduct analysis and are guided by the numbers when making business decisions. But do you...

Ida Ożarowska 16 December 2022

Google Cloud

Docker Swarm – what is it, and when can you use it?

When developing an application, have you ever had to go through many bugs that only appeared after deployment to the server? And did you have to stop yourself from saying the magic phrase “weird, it works for me”? Or, when implementing a patch, did you have to shut down the service for a while, which...

Ida Ożarowska 13 December 2022

Google Cloud

What is Proof of Concept, and how does it relate to cloud adoption?

Suppose you’re launching a tech startup, creating a new tool, planning a sizable refactoring or thinking about migrating and making more robust use of managed cloud services; you probably know that none of these actions should be taken hastily. The first step should be to validate the idea, i.e. to get an answer to the...

Ida Ożarowska 8 December 2022

Technologies

High availability – explanation and best practices

Potential failure and associated operational downtime are real nightmares for businesses. In some industries, service disruptions can be disastrous, not least for financial reasons. Can we ensure that systems are as reliable as possible? How do you eliminate the risk of failure and ensure reliability at the highest possible level? The solution may lie in...

Ida Ożarowska 5 December 2022

Google Cloud

What is machine learning, and why does it matter?

What is machine learning? Machine learning is about extracting knowledge from the data. ML is a subfield of artificial intelligence which empowers machines to learn from past data or experiences without being explicitly programmed. It enables automatic predictions or supporting decision-making processes by analysing tonnes of structured or semi-structured historical data. Machine learning use cases....

Ida Ożarowska 15 November 2022

Google Cloud

What to choose: on-premise, private, public, hybrid, or multi-cloud?

There are several solutions for storing IT resources in a company: in-house data centre, private cloud, public cloud… It is also possible to use more than one environment simultaneously, thus managing a hybrid cloud or a multi-cloud solution. The article outlines what each type of infrastructure brings about and its benefits and drawbacks. There is...

Ida Ożarowska 27 October 2022

Google Cloud

Multicloud strategy – a way to benefit from many clouds at once?

There’re many cloud service providers, and each offers slightly different solutions. Some focus on startups, others on enterprise-grade businesses. Building up a portfolio of services over the years, they’ve come with specialised offers, e.g., maps platforms, voice-to-text services, or out-of-the-box machine learning models. Every company considering cloud migration has to face a decision: which one...

Ida Ożarowska 19 August 2022

Google Cloud

Containerisation – what are containers, and why are they so popular?

Scalability, high performance, the effectiveness of resource consumption and relatively low cost; these are just some of the advantages that containerisation offers. Today we explain what containers are and what your business can gain from them. Scenario #1: A new application works flawlessly in the local environment, but right after deployment on the server, it...

Ida Ożarowska 9 August 2022

Google Cloud

Understandable and accessible data with Business Intelligence solutions

Almost no company relies only on intuition when making business decisions; many prefer to trust numbers. Firms aggregate data, check whether KPIs have anything to do with performance, and look for improvement opportunities. But they often don’t have the big picture. The truth is that hardly ever one can unleash the full potential of data...

Ida Ożarowska 25 July 2022

Technologies

What is microservice architecture, and why it’s worth implementing?

Microservice architecture is becoming more and more popular. Hearing so much about it, have you wondered is this the only right direction? Let’s take a look at microservices’ characteristics, their advantages and disadvantages, and consider in which scenarios they’ll work better than a monolithic architecture. Microservice architecture – definition and major idea behind it “Microservices”...

Ida Ożarowska 7 July 2022