Spanning the globe with Digital Services in TrueTime

There used to be a sports show on TV—ABCs Wide World of Sports—which began with the words…spanning the globe. The intro was dramatic. Spanning the globe was a big, big deal! Now, not so special. There are many types of networks that span the globe doing everything from streaming videos and TV to medical procedures to allowing financial transactions to be conducted in real-time. To make all this possible—especially processing of real time transactions spanning the globe—some fundamental laws of physics (not to mention record locking) had to be addressed.   

One company had no choice but to solve the problem, so they did. Meet Spanner. The Google Cloud service engineered to take hold of transmitting data in no time. What makes Google Spanner unique? It’s the first and only relational database service that is strongly consistent and horizontally scalable to handle the highest level of transactional workloads. This gives added scalability for structured and non-structured database sources offers transactional consistency with easy scalability.

Exclusive to Google and what makes Spanner so remarkable is technology called TrueTime. Thanks to this competitive advantage, Google is able to juggle online transactions at an unprecedented scale and keep up services with extraordinary consistency.

And because of that—just like how many of NASA’s or DoD’s inventions make it into the Civilian population in good and productive ways—Google’s Spanner geosynchronous database is now available to all Google Cloud users.

Turns out, there are several entities in our federal government who are similar to multi-national corporations operating on multiple continents with growing data volumes and real-time transactions. These and more federal organizations may benefit from Spanner:

·        The Department of Commerce; the ITC

·        The IMF

·        The World Bank

·        The Federal Reserve

·        DOD – With military units all around the world

·        FAA – track air traffic patterns and communications 24/7

Google’s history of innovation could help transform the public sector. As government has a constant need to simultaneously support a high volume of activities in various locations, Spanner can provide the infrastructure to match the amount of transactions taking place at any given time. Plus, the added value to federal customers is that this can be accomplished while ensuring regulatory compliance. Google Cloud Platform’s comprehensive security architecture includes Enterprise Grade Security with data encryptions IAM integration and audit logging. So go ahead and span the globe and still deliver digital services faster to citizens and communities!