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"
Members only 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
Members only 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..."
Cloud Google denies Iowa data centre explosion linked to global outage “We are aware of an incident at Google’s data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa."
Cloud Google Cloud losses slump to $858 million Wasn't cloud meant to be a cash machine? Alphabet executives say they're unconcerned...
Cloud GCP outperforms in Q1 with 44% growth as CEO promises a "long-run view" Satya Nadella: "I don't hear of businesses looking to their IT budgets as the place for cuts... "
Enterprise IT Google snatches Mandiant from under Microsoft's nose in $5.4b deal Google has agreed to buy Mandiant for $5.4 billion in cash -- a move that startled many market watchers after months of speculation that Microsoft was close to acquiring the cybersecurity company. The move comes just one year after Mandiant regained its independence, with FireEye in October 2021 selling
Cloud Google Cloud services fail for the second time in 4 days Load balancing configuration change blamed, as major sites return 404s
Cloud Google Cloud hit by three-hour wobble, with Gmail, other cloud services affected No, the issue was not on your side...
Cloud Wells Fargo unveils new multi-cloud infrastructure strategy: Azure, GCP... and GreenLake? Hybrid-multi-Kubernetes-something...
Cloud Google Cloud launches Vertex AI, a new managed AI/ML platform in the cloud. Here's what you need to know. Customers include L’Oréal, which is using it to power...
ESG/ClimateTech GCP's energy use tool is a welcome step, but there's much work to do on cloud emissions. You could choose to run batch jobs in a lower carbon region
