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GCP – How 7 Google Cloud partners are using generative AI to transform just about everything
Over the last few months, I’ve been blessed with a front-line opportunity to partner with many of the most forward-leaning technology companies using generative AI. I felt fortunate enough already to join Google Cloud last year — largely because I believe the companies who are able to harness modern analytics and AI are the ones […]
GCP – The future of Looker is powered by AI
Today, we are introducing the preview of Duet AI in Looker, tapping into the full power of Google and our years-long leadership in generative AI to reinvent how you work with and present your data. It’s time to reimagine what business intelligence truly means and go beyond traditional limits that have slowed you down, kept […]
GCP – Announcing BigQuery Studio — a collaborative analytics workspace to accelerate data-to-AI workflows
Organizations that are effective at using data and AI are more profitable than their competitors and see improved performance across a variety of business metrics, according to recent research: Already, 81% of organizations have increased their data and analytics investments over the previous two years. However, many organizations are still struggling to extract the full […]
GCP – BigQuery data clean rooms now available in preview
Businesses across industries are increasingly combining their data with external sources or collaborating directly with partners to gain new insights and unlock business value. As more data is being shared within and across organizational boundaries, the security and privacy of data — especially sensitive data — is more important than ever. To help organizations solve […]
GCP – Announcing Memorystore for Redis Cluster: Up to 60x more throughput, with microseconds latencies
Redis has continued to grow in popularity, whether that’s to reduce load on a database to save money, improve the end user experience with lower latency, or simply because developers love it. However, in industries like gaming (leaderboards, session stores), finance (fraud detection), ads (ultra-low-latency serving), or retail (checkouts), workloads push the boundaries of a […]
GCP – Build new gen AI capabilities with AlloyDB Omni, now in preview
Migrating off expensive, legacy databases, wherever they may be, remains a top priority for enterprises. Last year, we announced the general availability of AlloyDB, a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service that provides a powerful option for modernizing your most demanding enterprise database workloads, and for scaling existing PostgreSQL workloads without having to change the application. Then, […]
GCP – What’s new in Oracle to PostgreSQL migrations with Database Migration Service
As more organizations adopt open database standards, they need easy-to-use, high-performance migration tools, especially for heterogeneous migrations between different database engines. This week, we announced that Database Migration Service (DMS) has several new capabilities for converting and migrating Oracle databases to PostgreSQL. DMS is a fully managed serverless cloud service that enables migration with minimal […]
GCP – Day 1 at Next ‘23: AI everywhere, data galore, and more
It’s so great to be back in person at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, the first time Google Cloud Next has been a large in-person event since 2019! We kicked things off with a bang, with a keynote from Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who talked about the work we’re doing with our AI technologies to make […]
AWS – AWS Neuron adds support for Llama 2, GPT-NeoX, and SDXL generative AI models
AWS Neuron is the SDK for Amazon EC2 Inferentia and Trainium based instances purposely-built for generative AI. Today, with Neuron 2.13 release, we are launching support for Llama 2 model training and inference, GPT-NeoX model training and adding support for Stable Diffusion XL and CLIP models inference. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in Iceland and Uruguay
AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at your datacenter and on-premises locations in Iceland and Uruguay. Read More for the details.