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“For our customers, data is no longer one room in the house — it’s the foundation. However, moving data across different clouds is both cumbersome and expensive,” Debanjan Saha, general manager and vice president of engineering, Google Cloud, said in a statement.
“With BigQuery Omni, customers will get a multi-cloud analytics solution that enables them to gain critical data insights, in one unified experience,” he added.
A recent survey found that more than 80 percent of respondents using the public cloud were using more than one cloud service provider (CSP).
Google Cloud developed the multi-cloud analytics solutions to address this multi-cloud reality and allow customers to directly connect to their data across Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure without having to move or copy datasets.
Through a single user interface, customers will be able to analyze data in the region where it is stored, providing a unified analytics experience, Google officials said.
“The ability to run the same database on multiple cloud/data center environments is an important consideration when selecting a new data platform,” said Matt Aslett, research director, data, AI and analytics, 451 Research, in a statement.
“As hybrid and multi-cloud adoption has become the norm, enterprises are increasingly looking for data products that provide a consistent experience and lower complexity of using multiple clouds, while enabling the ongoing use of existing infrastructure investments,” he added.During the COVID-19 pandemic, Google Cloud has been active in creating solutions and platforms to enhance data sharing among providers.
In mid-April, Google Cloud and HCA Healthcare launched a COVID-19 data-sharing platform to enable the exchange of key information during the pandemic.
The COVID-19 National Response Portal, operated by SADA, runs on Google Cloud and promotes COVID-19 patient data sharing to uncover how the virus is spreading and help communities to prepare and respond.
The portal, built and operated by SADA, allows healthcare providers to safely share and display anonymous, aggregated metrics from hospital systems to other platforms. Providers will then be able to share and display information of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hospitals can use the platform to submit data each day which will focus on metrics such as ICU supply and utilization, ventilator supply and utilization, total numbers of positive, negative, pending COVID-19 test results, and the total number of healthy patients who have been discharged.
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