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BarracudaGoogle Cloud at Barracuda: Analytics Hosting
Barracuda, an information technology organization in the United States, uses Looker from Google Cloud to support data platform operations for data engineers.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Handoffs in data platform operations sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | Looker is the governed place data engineers use for data platform operations |
| Capability | New joiners can see how data platform operations actually runs |
Story
Barracuda grew analytics hosting faster than the local tools around it. From the United States, information technology teams still had to serve customers and internal partners who expected a straight answer. Data engineers were the ones stitching the picture together by hand.
Rolling out Looker put data platform operations on Google Cloud. Google Cloud provides infrastructure, analytics, and AI services, including BigQuery and Vertex AI, for data-heavy and machine learning workloads. Barracuda keeps the product in the path where work already happens, so data engineers do not context-switch into a graveyard system used only for audits.
The visible result is steadier data platform operations. Analytics hosting is easier to inspect, and adjacent groups can join data engineers without a guided tour of someone's desktop.
