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Google Cloud Consulting | Spanner Consulting Services

Google Cloud Spanner consulting services

Pythian offers expert Google Cloud Spanner consulting services designed to help businesses leverage this globally distributed relational database. Our services encompass strategic planning, implementation, and migration support, ensuring organizations can effectively build on or transition to Spanner. Pythian also provides specialized expertise in performance optimization, security, and cost management to maximize the efficiency and security of Spanner deployments. Furthermore, we offer 24/7 technical support and guidance for cross-cloud and hybrid cloud environments, ensuring continuous availability and addressing critical concerns.

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Draw on the experience of Pythian's Spanner consultants

With our Google Cloud Premier Partnership and our deep expertise in leveraging the power of Spanner, Pythian's consultants are well-suited to support you in achieving your business goals.

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Years of effort automated down to just months

With Pythian's Google expertise at your disposal, your organization can automate as much as decades of tedious effort down to a fraction of that time.

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Decrease in processing time through automation

Extensively reduce (up to 90%) your processing times by drawing on Pythian's Google Cloud consultants.

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Global customers

As a Google Cloud Premier Partner, we serve customers across the world—many who have been with us for decades.

What's included in Pythian's Spanner consulting services?

We offer the support needed to maximize the impact of Spanner

Pythian offers comprehensive consulting services for Google Cloud Spanner, designed to help organizations maximize their investment in this globally distributed, strongly consistent, and highly scalable database service. Our expertise spans the entire lifecycle of Spanner adoption and optimization.

Strategy and implementation

Pythian offers comprehensive support for adopting and leveraging Google Cloud Spanner. The process begins with strategic planning and assessment, where we collaborate to understand business requirements and determine if Spanner is the right fit. We then guide customers in selecting appropriate database options within Google Cloud and design optimal Spanner schemas and indexing strategies. Finally, Pythian provides seamless migration services for existing databases to Spanner and ensures its integration with other Google Cloud services.

Optimization and management

Our experts provide performance tuning and query optimization for Spanner workloads, identifying bottlenecks and refining SQL queries and schema design to maximize throughput. We assist with capacity management and scaling strategies through proactive monitoring and forecasting, ensuring applications have necessary resources without over-provisioning. For global applications, we focus on architectural designs and configuration adjustments to minimize latency, including strategic regional instance placement. We also help optimize Spanner costs by effectively managing Serverless Processing Units (SPUs) through right-sizing instances and monitoring utilization.

Security and support

Pythian offers comprehensive security measures for Spanner instances, including data encryption, network security, and compliance with industry standards. We manage Google Cloud IAM policies for Spanner, configuring roles, permissions, and service accounts for granular access control. Pythian provides 24/7 technical support, proactive monitoring, and expert troubleshooting to ensure uninterrupted availability and performance. Additionally, we design and implement robust high-availability and disaster recovery strategies for Spanner, leveraging its built-in replication and multi-region capabilities.

Cross-environment guidance

Pythian guides organizations using Spanner in complex multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments. We offer architectural insights and operational best practices for integrating Spanner with on-premises data centers and other public cloud providers. Pythian specifically addresses and mitigates challenges related to data latency, security policies, and maintaining high availability and data consistency in these intricate environments. Our guidance helps achieve a cohesive and high-performing data platform despite the distributed nature of the infrastructure.

SaaS company rapidly scales transportation platform with Google Cloud Spanner

Pythian worked with the IT team to assess Spanner, and identified that Spanner could unlock capabilities the business needed.

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Optimize your use of Spanner

Pythian's Spanner consulting services help you get the most from the tool

Our Spanner consulting services help organizations leverage Spanner's capabilities for AI-powered applications, effortless scalability, and always-on availability. We ensure robust security and comprehensive compliance while streamlining data management and reducing operational overhead. Customers benefit from expert guidance in implementing Spanner's features for consistent performance, strong transactional consistency, and protection against data loss.

Greater access to intelligent applications

Pythian's Spanner consulting services support you in gaining access to intelligent applications through Spanner's comprehensive data management and seamless integration with Google Cloud's AI ecosystem. Spanner supports various data types with multi-model capabilities and integrates natively with Vertex AI for sophisticated machine learning workflows directly on transactional data. The tool's capabilities include graph querying, vector search for high-dimensional embeddings, and robust full-text search. By consolidating diverse data into a single, unified database, Spanner eliminates data silos, simplifies data governance, and reduces operational overhead while ensuring strong transactional consistency.

Enhanced scalability

Our Google Cloud Spanner consulting services are tailored for massive scalability and consistent high performance, effortlessly adapting to your demanding workloads. Our consultants support you in leveraging Spanner and its seamless horizontal read/write scaling and automatic sharding to distribute data and optimize resource utilization, preventing bottlenecks. Spanner's geo-partitioning further enhances performance by placing data closer to users, minimizing latency for global applications. Spanner Data Boost improves analytical workloads by offloading CPU-intensive queries to separate compute resources, ensuring critical OLTP workloads remain unaffected even during peak demand.

Always-on availability

Pythian's Spanner consulting service offers unparalleled availability, ensuring less than six minutes of downtime annually through synchronous replication, automatic failover, and self-healing capabilities. Customers can choose from flexible deployment options, including regional or multi-regional instances, to meet specific availability and latency needs. Unlike many NoSQL databases, Spanner guarantees strong transactional consistency across globally distributed databases. This ensures all transactions are compliant and replicas are always up-to-date, providing a reliable and consistent view of data crucial for sensitive operations.

Comprehensive compliance

Our Spanner consulting helps organizations leverage Spanner's enterprise-grade security features, including multiple layers of protection, centralized administration, and robust data encryption. We ensure compliance with industry standards like GDPR and HIPAA, simplifying auditing processes. Customers benefit from granular access management through IAM integration, ensuring data access is strictly controlled. Furthermore, Pythian assists with implementing Spanner's comprehensive backup and point-in-time recovery capabilities, safeguarding against data loss and ensuring business continuity.

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SaaS company scales transportation platform with Spanner

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Top three use cases for Google Cloud Spanner
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Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Google Cloud Spanner consulting services

What are Spanner consulting services?

Spanner consulting services offer expert guidance and support for businesses to effectively leverage Google Cloud Spanner, a globally distributed relational database. These services encompass strategic planning, implementation, and ongoing management, helping organizations meet high-availability and strong consistency requirements for demanding applications. We address challenges like performance optimization, global scaling, data migration, security, and cost management in cloud-native environments.

What is the typical process when drawing on Spanner consulting services?

Spanner consulting services typically begin with strategic planning to assess business requirements and determine if Spanner is the right fit. This is followed by implementation and migration assistance, where existing data is moved and Spanner is integrated with other Google Cloud services. Finally, our services include ongoing optimization, security implementation, and 24/7 technical support to ensure continuous availability and performance.

What kind of benefits are realized by leveraging Spanner consulting services?

Leveraging Spanner consulting services provides expert guidance and support for businesses to effectively utilize Google Cloud Spanner, a globally distributed relational database. Our services ensure high availability and strong consistency for demanding applications, addressing challenges like performance optimization, global scaling, and data migration. Ultimately, businesses benefit from streamlined implementation, enhanced security, and optimized cost management in their cloud-native environments.

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