Google Cloud for utilities
Google Cloud for utilities
Address future challenges today with Google’s groundbreaking AI, security, and geospatial solutions—to build a business that is not just surviving, but thriving. We help your business stay safe, affordable, reliable, sustainable, and most importantly—ahead of the curve.
Reimagine the utilities value chain to drive business growth
Reimagine the utilities value chain to drive business growth
Optimize and safeguard your infrastructure and strengthen system reliability with precise climate forecasting and wildfire detection, and Google’s advanced AI and agent capabilities.
Solution spotlight: Learn more about WeatherNext and how AI-powered weather forecasting and automated agents are transforming the energy and utilities industries, providing more accurate predictions and enabling proactive operational responses—capabilities that translate directly to operational value.
By developing a digital twin utilizing Google’s geospatial AI and advanced AI and data solutions, utility companies can significantly improve capital efficiency through optimized investments and accelerated planning and siting. This virtual system—enhanced by tools like WeatherNext for precise forecasting, Solar API to accelerate solar deployments, and FireSat for near real-time wildfire detection and risk mitigation—provides advanced simulation and forecasting capabilities to accurately predict demand and infrastructure performance, ultimately increasing grid reliability, efficiency, and resilience for customers.
Utility companies can minimize inspection and maintenance expenses while decreasing the frequency of outages by utilizing Vertex AI and Google Earth Engine with BigQuery. These solutions also enable utilities to implement proactive strategies for asset health management. This includes performing lifecycle planning for assets, determining their current and projected remaining lifespan, and identifying high-risk infrastructure or vegetation that may pose a threat.
MyHEAT uses the Solar API data, insights, and imagery to educate residents, utility companies, and cities on the solar potential of their homes and buildings.
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MyHEAT uses the Solar API data, insights, and imagery to educate residents, utility companies, and cities on the solar potential of their homes and buildings.
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Plan, forecast, and model with enhanced data-driven tools
Optimize and safeguard your infrastructure and strengthen system reliability with precise climate forecasting and wildfire detection, and Google’s advanced AI and agent capabilities.
Solution spotlight: Learn more about WeatherNext and how AI-powered weather forecasting and automated agents are transforming the energy and utilities industries, providing more accurate predictions and enabling proactive operational responses—capabilities that translate directly to operational value.
By developing a digital twin utilizing Google’s geospatial AI and advanced AI and data solutions, utility companies can significantly improve capital efficiency through optimized investments and accelerated planning and siting. This virtual system—enhanced by tools like WeatherNext for precise forecasting, Solar API to accelerate solar deployments, and FireSat for near real-time wildfire detection and risk mitigation—provides advanced simulation and forecasting capabilities to accurately predict demand and infrastructure performance, ultimately increasing grid reliability, efficiency, and resilience for customers.
Utility companies can minimize inspection and maintenance expenses while decreasing the frequency of outages by utilizing Vertex AI and Google Earth Engine with BigQuery. These solutions also enable utilities to implement proactive strategies for asset health management. This includes performing lifecycle planning for assets, determining their current and projected remaining lifespan, and identifying high-risk infrastructure or vegetation that may pose a threat.
MyHEAT uses the Solar API data, insights, and imagery to educate residents, utility companies, and cities on the solar potential of their homes and buildings.
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MyHEAT uses the Solar API data, insights, and imagery to educate residents, utility companies, and cities on the solar potential of their homes and buildings.
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Build and operate more efficiently, reliably, resiliently, and sustainably
Powered by Google AI and data solutions, utilities drive efficient and resilient operations, optimize crew operations, trade power smarter, and deliver exceptional customer experience.
Customer feature: Learn how OVO uses BigQuery and Vertex AI to analyze and manage customer data and build apps that help customers understand their energy insights and decarbonize their home.
Identify at-risk equipment and prevent outages before they happen. With Vertex AI, Manufacturing Data Engine, and Google’s environmental data, utility companies can streamline asset monitoring and proactively identify high-risk assets, shifting to a more effective predictive maintenance model. This data-driven approach accelerates design and maintenance, leading to reduced outages and a boost in profitability with faster ROI and lower TCO.
Drive smarter trading by leveraging BigQuery ML and Vertex AI to connect market signals directly to risk insights. This allows for more accurate prediction of future energy prices and grid demand, analysis of forecasts for the most profitable bidding strategies, and continuous calculation of financial exposure. The outcome is an increase in return on assets and acceleration in risk management speed, providing a competitive edge in the market.
With BigQuery and Vertex AI utility companies can minimize crew downtime and accelerate work order completions by optimizing crew scheduling, resource forecasting, and automating maintenance job management. Additionally, utilities see reduction in project delays by optimizing large-scale construction and restoration projects through the integration of AI and work packages.
Utilities leverage Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience for personalized, accurate interactions, improving customer satisfaction and reducing call volume via AI-powered self-service. With features like Agent Assist and multilingual support, the suite increases resolution rates, enhances user trust, and optimizes service delivery with data-grounded insights and compliance.
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Learn how 7 power and energy companies are innovating with Google Cloud and AI.
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Enable a secure, scalable foundation to advance your AI journey
Modernize your data platform for secure and scalable AI, strengthen cybersecurity, and proactively manage risk and worker safety with predictive analytics.
Customer feature: Siemens Energy migrates its highly complex SAP ECC environment onto Google Cloud for greater reliability and cost-efficiency.
By deploying a unified data platform with BigQuery, utility companies can modernize their data infrastructure to support secure, scalable AI workloads and analytics across hybrid or air-gapped environments. This platform unifies data across the organization, accelerating time-to-insight and fostering a culture of innovation, all while maintaining the highest standards of security and data sovereignty.
Strengthen cybersecurity and safeguard against attacks with Mandiant Cybersecurity Consulting. Leverage comprehensive incident response and remediation, which reduces the time taken to address breaches and ensures thorough remediation by hardening critical OT infrastructure. This capability enables rapid recovery across both IT and OT domains, ultimately minimizing disruptions.
Proactively manage risk and enhance worker safety by leveraging predictive analytics with Gemini Enterprise and NotebookLM. Automatically generate job-specific risk scores and safety briefings to reduce workplace injuries, empower field crews to query safety manuals in natural language to increase operational efficiency, and automate safety audit processes using computer vision and crew logs to improve compliance.
AES has significantly increased the accuracy and speed of health and safety audits by deploying gen AI agents built using Vertex AI and Anthropic’s Claude models.
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AES has significantly increased the accuracy and speed of health and safety audits by deploying gen AI agents built using Vertex AI and Anthropic’s Claude models.
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Google Cloud is uniquely positioned to support utilities, grid operators, regulators, retail marketers, and independent power producers
Google Cloud is uniquely positioned to support utilities, grid operators, regulators, retail marketers, and independent power producers
Google has extensive experience nurturing new technologies and developing solutions for the energy industry—from cutting-edge research on AI to making strategic investments in geothermal energy, small modular reactors, and fusion energy. We are pushing the boundaries of what is the state-of-the-art in AI, security, and geospatial capabilities. Join us on this journey.
Expertise in geospatial for situational awareness for energy infrastructure
Google’s advanced geospatial solutions like EarthEngine, FireSat, and StreetView provide the foundational capabilities for geospatial analysis and optimization.
Our dedication and research in geo spatial extends to addressing critical energy-related challenges, delivering industry-leading geospatial solutions essential for utilities to safeguard their business, employees, and customers.
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Google-quality search grounded in your enterprise data
Harness Google's decades of expertise in search to transform your utility operations and improve the customer experience.
Infuse Google-quality search, grounded in your enterprise data, to help employees, from office staff to field crews, quickly locate the exact data they need—whether it's in operational documents, asset images, or geospatial system information—to streamline workflows and make better-informed decisions. For your customers, AI-powered search ensures they can find critical information quickly, driving stronger satisfaction and retention.
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Demonstrated leadership in research
Google is recognized globally as a leader in research, pioneering breakthroughs in AI, quantum computing, and autonomous systems. Through key divisions such as Google Research and Google DeepMind, we consistently translate significant scientific innovation into tangible, real-world solutions.
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Security and sovereignty trusted by utilities for their IT and OT systems
Strengthen cybersecurity and safeguard against threats and attacks with Mandiant Cybersecurity Consulting. Leverage comprehensive incident response and remediation, which reduces the time taken to address breaches and ensures thorough remediation by hardening critical OT infrastructure.
For utilities that are required to operate fully disconnected, we offer air-gapped solutions that integrate Google's AI capabilities.
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Innovate faster with an open-source, multicloud strategy that offers ultimate flexibility
Google Cloud has a longstanding commitment to open-source and multicloud approaches, viewing customer choice as crucial for innovation.
Open source provides the building blocks for portability, while multicloud strategies leverage these tools for cost optimization, resilience, and using best-of-breed services, creating a powerful, on premises, or vendor-agnostic approach to cloud computing.
Build yourself or leverage Google Cloud managed services for open-source solutions like Google Kubernetes Engine and platforms like Anthos that allow apps to run consistently across public clouds, private data centers, and even other clouds. It's your choice.
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Accelerate your AI journey on Google Cloud's unified and secure AI platform
Google Cloud’s secure and integrated platform is built for utilities industry compliance, providing governance and choice, while protecting enterprise and customer data.
Build, deploy and scale your AI solutions with Gemini and Google Cloud's flexible, end-to-end platform, Vertex AI. Work with any model, connect to any data, and accelerate innovation without limitation or lock in.
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See how leading utilities innovate with Google Cloud
- Westinghouse is reenergizing nuclear power with—and for—AIRealizing “energy for AI and AI for energy” as new AI tools from Google Cloud help speed up nuclear construction, operations, and safety.Read now
Siemens Energy achieved cost savings by migrating to SAP on Google CloudSiemens Energy works with Atos to migrate its highly complex SAP ECC environment onto Google Cloud for greater reliability and cost-efficiency.Read now
Hydro Ottawa lights up the future of work with Gemini for Google WorkspaceLearn how Hydro Ottawa uses Workspace and Gemini to power productivity and generate more reliable, cost-friendly services.Read now
Elia Group helps businesses and consumers reduce carbon emissions with Vertex AILearn how Elia Group’s innovative approach to measuring and forecasting the CO2 intensity of electricity across their grid is helping businesses make informed decisions about their energy consumption.Read now
Copel unleashes the power of Gemini for their enterprise data with Google Cloud Cortex Framework and Open Data QnACopel transformed data access with Google Cloud AI and Cortex Framework, enabling employees to extract real-time insights from SAP ERP using natural language queries, boosting decision-making and productivity.Read now
Monalee: Digitizing solar sales and lowering costs with Solar APIMonalee uses the Solar API to provide homeowners considering a transition to solar energy with accurate, online, and real-time custom price quotes, without salespeople.Read now
Elvia: Innovating infrastructure for the new smart meter networkWhen Norway introduced compulsory smart meters, Elvia, the country’s largest power company, met the new, complex data challenge with a solution built on Google Cloud solutions.Read now
Atlas AI and Engie are reshaping energy access in KenyaAtlas AI's platform guided Engie to target optimal regions for expansion, leading to a 48% increase in monthly sales in a pilot program conducted in Kenya.Read now
Adani Group: Transforming the search experience with Vertex AIUsing Vertex AI Search, Adani Group, a multinational conglomerate, has created a richer and more personalized search experience for its collection of monthly newsletters.Read now
Veolia Group Streamlines critical IT work across 52 countriesVeolia Group adopts an intelligent workflow to support operations across the 52 countries where it operates, empowering employees to solve business problems faster with technological solutions.Read now
E.ON: Powering businesses on their sustainable journeys, supported by Google CloudE.ON turned to Google Cloud to take an in-house asset management software to market and use self-managed solutions to scale and deliver data insights to 10,000 businesses worldwide.Read now
Capital Energy: Taking sustainable energy to new heights with secure cloud technologies, AI, and data platformsCapital Energy uses Google Cloud and partner Fortinet technologies to accelerate sustainability objectives and maximize enterprise security.Read now
MyHEAT: Helping cities reach energy efficiency goals with the Solar APITo support energy efficiency at scale, MyHEAT uses the Solar API data, insights, and imagery to educate residents, utility companies, and cities on the solar potential of their homes and buildings.Read now
AES: Scaling energy safety audits with Google CloudAES has significantly increased the accuracy and speed of health and safety audits by deploying gen AI agents built using Vertex AI and Anthropic’s Claude models.Read now
EDP, Energias De Portugal: Improving customer satisfaction with Google CloudEnergias De Portugal uses Google App Engine and Firebase to improve customer satisfaction across its customer mobile app and website, with improved uptime, push notifications, and faster page loading.Read now
Resources to help accelerate your AI and cloud journey
Google DeepMind supports U.S. Department of Energy on Genesis: a national mission to accelerate innovation and scientific discoveryGoogle and the DOE are partnering to support the Administration's goal of harnessing the AI and advanced computing revolution to dramatically expand the productivity and impact of American research and innovation within a decade.Read now
Energy companies partner with Google Cloud to drive AI-powered energy solutionsThe energy industry is advancing with the help of Google Cloud's AI, enabling breakthroughs in weather prediction, smart home energy management, and the expansion of renewable resources.Read now
How AI-powered weather forecasting can transform energy operationsAI-powered weather forecasting and automated agents are transforming the energy and utilities industries by providing more accurate predictions and enabling proactive operational responses.Read now
Charging up: How 7 power and energy companies are innovating with cloud and AIWhether it's predictive maintenance, grid resilience, or the deployment of safer nuclear energy, discover the ways industry leaders are pushing the frontiers of power with the latest Google technologies.Read now
How Databricks and Google Cloud enable Uplight to deliver energy analytics solutions efficientlyUplight uses Databricks on Google Cloud to efficiently process large amounts of data to provide energy analytics solutions, which help utility companies and their customers conserve energy and reduce carbon footprints.Read now
Landis+Gyr: Securing the energy supply with AI and machine learningGoogle Cloud partnered with Landis+Gyr to help the company to innovate faster with a unified and intelligent data platform.Read now
1,001 real-world gen AI use cases from the world's leading organizationsAI is here, AI is everywhere: Top companies, governments, researchers, and startups are already enhancing their work with Google's AI solutions.Read now
Delivering trusted and secure AILearn how Google Cloud’s approach to generative AI prioritizes enterprise-readiness with built-in mechanisms for robust data governance, privacy controls, IP indemnification, and responsible AI practices.Download now
Powering a New Era of American InnovationAI presents the United States with a generational opportunity for extraordinary innovation and growth. Fully realizing these opportunities will take a focused, forceful, and expedited effort to increase the capacity of the existing, sometimes antiquated U.S. energy system.Read or download now
Blogs
- Google DeepMind supports U.S. Department of Energy on Genesis: a national mission to accelerate innovation and scientific discoveryGoogle and the DOE are partnering to support the Administration's goal of harnessing the AI and advanced computing revolution to dramatically expand the productivity and impact of American research and innovation within a decade.Read now
- Energy companies partner with Google Cloud to drive AI-powered energy solutionsThe energy industry is advancing with the help of Google Cloud's AI, enabling breakthroughs in weather prediction, smart home energy management, and the expansion of renewable resources.Read now
- How AI-powered weather forecasting can transform energy operationsAI-powered weather forecasting and automated agents are transforming the energy and utilities industries by providing more accurate predictions and enabling proactive operational responses.Read now
- Charging up: How 7 power and energy companies are innovating with cloud and AIWhether it's predictive maintenance, grid resilience, or the deployment of safer nuclear energy, discover the ways industry leaders are pushing the frontiers of power with the latest Google technologies.Read now
- How Databricks and Google Cloud enable Uplight to deliver energy analytics solutions efficientlyUplight uses Databricks on Google Cloud to efficiently process large amounts of data to provide energy analytics solutions, which help utility companies and their customers conserve energy and reduce carbon footprints.Read now
- Landis+Gyr: Securing the energy supply with AI and machine learningGoogle Cloud partnered with Landis+Gyr to help the company to innovate faster with a unified and intelligent data platform.Read now
Reports and ebooks
- 1,001 real-world gen AI use cases from the world's leading organizationsAI is here, AI is everywhere: Top companies, governments, researchers, and startups are already enhancing their work with Google's AI solutions.Read now
- Delivering trusted and secure AILearn how Google Cloud’s approach to generative AI prioritizes enterprise-readiness with built-in mechanisms for robust data governance, privacy controls, IP indemnification, and responsible AI practices.Download now
- Powering a New Era of American InnovationAI presents the United States with a generational opportunity for extraordinary innovation and growth. Fully realizing these opportunities will take a focused, forceful, and expedited effort to increase the capacity of the existing, sometimes antiquated U.S. energy system.Read or download now
Explore Google products driving transformation in utilities
- Earth Engine in BigQueryAnalyze satellite imagery and geospatial data at planetary scale and improve sustainability and climate resilience decision-making with a curated geospatial data catalog and the large-scale computing and advanced AI of Google Cloud.Learn more
- Google Distributed Cloud (GDC)A fully managed software and hardware solution for data centers and edge locations to address regulatory, local data processing, survivability, and low-latency needs.Learn more
- Manufacturing Data EngineSeamlessly bridge factory floor and enterprise data, enabling rapid AI and agent-driven insights. Drive immediate improvements in manufacturing visibility, quality, and productivity.Learn more
- Vertex AI PlatformBuild and scale applications with 200+ foundation models and an open and integrated platform alongside enterprise ready data governance, privacy, and safety.Learn more
- Analytics Data Platform with BigQueryUnify multimodal data, accelerate innovation with AI, and simplify data analytics across all users in the enterprise.Learn more
- Gemini EnterpriseEmpower teams to discover, create, share, and run AI agents all in one secure platform.Learn more
- Gemini Enterprise for Customer ExperienceDeliver exceptional end-to-end experiences, agent assistance, and operational insights with our most advanced conversational AI products and Gemini models—grounded in your organization's resources to ensure high accuracy.Learn more
- SAP on Google CloudExperience the full value of your SAP data on Google Cloud, reaching new levels of efficiency and innovation.Learn more
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)Securely run enterprise workloads at scale—with little to no Kubernetes expertise required.Learn more
- BigQuery and Vertex AI for supply chain and logisticsHarness the power of data and AI to drive more intelligent logistics operations and supply chains.Learn more
- Spanner GraphGraph capabilities at virtually unlimited scale unlock the power of relational, graph, full-text, and vector search in one database.Learn more
- Vertex AI Agent BuilderBuild and orchestrate enterprise-grade multi-agent experiences.
- Apigee API ManagementGoogle Cloud’s native API management tool to build, manage, and secure APIs—for any use case, environment, or scale.Learn more
- Looker for Business IntelligenceAccess, analyze, and act on the up-to-date, trusted version of your data to deliver trusted data experiences at scale and improve productivity, decision-making, and innovation by delivering more insights to more users.Learn more
- Partner Industry Solutions (iVN)These solutions combine Google Cloud's AI, data, and analytics products with SI partners' deep domain expertise and ISV offerings (where applicable) to enhance industry business processes and functional capabilities that accelerate time to value and lower risk.Learn more
- Dataplex Universal CatalogCentrally discover, manage, monitor, and govern data and AI artifacts across your data platform, providing access to trusted data and powering analytics and AI at scale.Learn more
- Google WorkspaceTransform team productivity and collaboration with cloud-native apps including Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, and more—all with AI seamlessly integrated.Learn more
- Gemini Code AssistAI-powered assistance to help developers deploy, and operate applications throughout the software development lifecycle.Learn more
Innovate with confidence: security and compliance trusted by utility organizations
Protect your sensitive data and meet rigorous regulatory requirements with Google Cloud's secure-by-design infrastructure, zero-trust architecture, advanced threat intelligence, and comprehensive compliance certifications. We provide robust controls for data privacy, residency, and sovereignty, enabling you to innovate with confidence.
- Mandiant Cybersecurity ConsultingIncident response and expert guidance so you can maintain confidence in business operations before, during, and after an incident.Learn more
- Sovereign CloudGrow confidently with the most comprehensive and flexible solution to meet your sovereignty needs, worldwide. Our sovereign AI solutions are designed to empower enterprises with unparalleled data residency and administrative access controls over your AI deployments.Learn more
- Google Cloud Cybershield™Provides governments with AI and intel-driven cyber defense at national scale with tailored and applied threat intelligence, streamlined security operations, and capability excellence.Learn more
- Security Command CenterSecure the entire AI stack and lifecycle from your agents, data, models, apps, platform, and infrastructure.Learn more
- Compliance offerings for EnergyGoogle Cloud’s industry-leading certifications, documentation, and third-party audits to help support your compliance.Learn more
Frequently asked questions
How does Google Cloud ensure security of our critical infrastructure data?
We provide a robust, multilayered security model and zero-trust architecture to protect sensitive operational data. Our platform includes advanced threat detection and compliance certifications for global standards, helping utilities meet NERC CIP and other compliance requirements through secure infrastructure, encryption, and comprehensive auditing tools. Under our shared responsibility model, you maintain control over your data while Google secures the underlying platform.
Can Google Cloud help us meet stringent regulatory and compliance requirements for the utilities sector?
Yes, Google Cloud is committed to adhering to numerous industry and government regulations, such as GDPR, and provides extensive compliance resources to help customers meet their specific obligations. Google Distributed Cloud solutions can also help keep certain workloads on-premises or at the edge to meet data residency and operational requirements for critical national infrastructure (CNI), while still leveraging cloud services.
We also provide documentation and guidance to help utility operators understand how to use Google's services in a manner that supports compliance with the mandatory NERC CIP standards for the Bulk Electric System (BES).
How does the cloud improve grid reliability and customer experience?
By leveraging Google Cloud AI/ML and data analytics, utilities can detect grid faults, optimize loads, and integrate distributed energy resources. Our scalable platforms process massive datasets from smart meters to enable proactive decision-making and personalized customer interactions. In addition, Google advanced geospatial solutions like WeatherNext and FireSat help utility organizations make precise public safety power shutoffs decisions, and optimize vegetation management, both leading to cost savings and better customer experiences.
How is data privacy ensured with AI?
You own your data. Google Cloud implements stringent security measures to safeguard your information and provides tools to control it on your terms. You can also rest assured that Google does not use your data to train its models. For more information, visit our Privacy Resource Center.
How can Google Cloud help us modernize while adhering to our CapEx financial model?
Google Cloud understands that many utility companies operate predominantly within a rate-of-return framework. We actively collaborate with our customers to devise strategies that permit capitalization of specific cloud or AI-related expenditures. We provide options that enable CapEx classification, provided expenses fully conform to applicable accounting regulations. Our comprehensive approach supports utilities in their modernization initiatives while simultaneously bolstering affordability, reliability, and resilience within a hybrid or multicloud environment. We can also offer assistance in establishing an in-house Cloud FinOps function to guarantee visibility, cultural alignment, and accountability regarding all your cloud-related costs.
How do we integrate existing legacy systems with Google Cloud?
We support hybrid connectivity through Cloud VPN and Cloud Interconnect, providing secure, high-bandwidth links. Our Anthos solution ensures consistent policy enforcement across diverse environments, while tools like Cloud Data Fusion bridge data silos between disparate systems, including Databricks, SAP, Oracle, and other cloud platforms.
Does migration require an "all-or-nothing" approach?
No. We recommend starting with a single, high-impact business problem to deliver measurable wins quickly. This allows you to prove technology value and build momentum for broader transformation at a pace that suits your business.
How does Google Cloud support multicloud strategies?
Google Cloud supports robust multicloud strategies through our commitment to openness and interoperable technologies. We provide consistent platforms like Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for managing applications across environments, and our Google Distributed Cloud solutions extend our infrastructure where you need it, ensuring you can leverage the best of all clouds without being locked in.
Does Google Cloud offer support and training to help our team with the skills to support our cloud migration?
Yes, we offer comprehensive support, training, and professional services to help organizations upskill their teams. We provide detailed documentation, training courses, and a network of partners and system integrators that specialize in designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based solutions tailored to specific utility industry needs. This ensures a smoother migration process and helps internal teams build the necessary competencies in network management, data analytics, and security
