Google Cloud launches Network Intelligence Center with four initial modules

[Google Cloud] Google Cloud announced on November 13 the launch of Network Intelligence Center, describing it as its network monitoring, verification and optimization platform across cloud and on-prem data centers, alongside an initial set of modules. The company said growing adoption of multi-cloud and hybrid deployments is making networks more complex, leaving operations teams with limited visibility, long troubleshooting times and configuration errors discovered too late in production. The first phase includes four modules: Connectivity Tests and Network Topology, both in beta; and Performance Dashboard and Firewall Metrics & Insights in alpha, with more modules to follow. Google Cloud said Network Topology provides visibility into a customer's global GCP deployment and its interaction with the public internet, and lets users look back up to six weeks to track topology changes for diagnosis.