google cloud
Google Cloud breaks records – CapEx climbs to $13 billion
Sundar Pichai: "The risk of under-investing is dramatically greater than the risk of over-investing"
google cloud
Google praises UniSuper’s CIO after GCP error deleted $124 billion firm’s entire private cloud
Post-mortem praises Aussie fund's good third-party backups, “speed and precision” from CIO’s team
AI
Synthetic focus groups and RAG in the contact centre: Bayer, Verizon, WPP on their AI deployments
"You can create a consumer, a brand strategist, a brand marketer, client, encoded with actual ground truth data, then critique the content that's been generated by the system with agents playing off against each other."
AI
Google Distributed Cloud: AI, on-premises, without the drama?
"Because we manage the stack remotely, our customers generally get concerned about what data is getting in between the two environments. So we built a tool for you..."
SAP
Deutsche Börse Group overcomes “hesitant stakeholders, cautious regulators” moves ERP to GCP
"From adding new legal entities following M&A, through launching products such as swap types, to simple requests to improve our workflows, the system couldn’t keep up. Just a simple launch request would take as much as nine months"
Cloud
Google Cloud is NOT magicking away data egress fees
GCP's somewhat limited move to drop "cloud switching" charges is aimed squarely at Microsoft.
telecoms
Google Cloud General Manager takes over as Telenor CTO
Amol Phadke joins the global telecom after three years at Google
News
Revisiting *that* Google outage: Fire, flooding, (then running out of water) and a “regional Spanner” failure
Fire-fighting was not helped by Global Switch’s fire suppression system “running out of water”. The incident also introduced water and soot contamination. Google Cloud’s affected racks had to be taken apart, thoroughly cleaned and reassembled before they could be restarted.
Cloud
Google eyes an integrated dev experience, improved controls with Cloud Workstations
Cloud Workstations ships with good documentation and is the latest release to give a sense that Google Cloud is doing a consistently better job at meeting enterprise needs.
Featured
Fire, water, hit Google Cloud in Paris - with global impact
Over 90 Google Cloud services were knocked offline in its Paris region after a major data centre incident – believed to have been caused by a water leak triggering a fire in a battery room of a co-location data centre. The incident also briefly triggered the complete global outage of its
Cloud
Deutsche Börse CIO plumps for Google Cloud for digital assets platform
"Cloud-native market infrastructure, combining centralized and decentralized..."
Cloud
"Existing connections will be shut down" -- Google is killing off Google Cloud IoT Core
"As of that date, devices will be unable to connect to the Google Cloud IoT Core MQTT and HTTP bridges..."