diff --git a/google-cloud-core/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/testing/BaseEmulatorHelper.java b/google-cloud-core/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/testing/BaseEmulatorHelper.java
index b8f7be44874f..47057ff8a098 100644
--- a/google-cloud-core/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/testing/BaseEmulatorHelper.java
+++ b/google-cloud-core/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/testing/BaseEmulatorHelper.java
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ public Process getProcess() {
     private boolean isGcloudInstalled() {
       Map<String, String> env = System.getenv();
       for (String envName : env.keySet()) {
-        if ("PATH".equals(envName)) {
+        if ("PATH".equalsIgnoreCase(envName)) {
           return env.get(envName).contains("google-cloud-sdk");
         }
       }
diff --git a/google-cloud-datastore/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/datastore/testing/LocalDatastoreHelper.java b/google-cloud-datastore/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/datastore/testing/LocalDatastoreHelper.java
index 9bf22abf4101..7481aebda133 100644
--- a/google-cloud-datastore/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/datastore/testing/LocalDatastoreHelper.java
+++ b/google-cloud-datastore/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/datastore/testing/LocalDatastoreHelper.java
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ public class LocalDatastoreHelper extends BaseEmulatorHelper<DatastoreOptions> {
   private static final String GCLOUD_CMD_TEXT = "gcloud beta emulators datastore start";
   private static final String GCLOUD_CMD_PORT_FLAG = "--host-port=";
   private static final String VERSION_PREFIX = "cloud-datastore-emulator ";
-  private static final String MIN_VERSION = "1.2.0";
+  private static final String MIN_VERSION = "1.4.0";
 
   // Downloadable emulator settings
   private static final String BIN_NAME = "cloud-datastore-emulator/cloud_datastore_emulator";