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BarclaysBarclays Extends Google Kubernetes Engine Across Platform Operations
Barclays, a financials organization in the United Kingdom, uses Google Kubernetes Engine from Google Cloud to support platform operations for infrastructure and application teams.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because cloud landing zones has a clear owner |
| Risk and compliance | Google Kubernetes Engine is the governed place infrastructure and application teams use for platform operations |
| Capability | New joiners can see how platform operations actually runs |
Story
Barclays did not need another dashboard that nobody opened. It needed platform operations to move. In the United Kingdom, infrastructure and application teams already knew where cloud landing zones went wrong: too many copies, too little ownership, and a close process that waited on the loudest inbox.
Google Kubernetes Engine from Google Cloud is now in that path. Google Cloud provides infrastructure, analytics, and AI services, including BigQuery and Vertex AI, for data-heavy and machine learning workloads. The company treats it as production tooling for platform operations, which is why infrastructure and application teams live in it rather than exporting from it once a quarter.
Barclays can show how cloud landing zones is handled today. That is the value: a repeatable way to run platform operations on software the rest of the industry already recognizes.
