Introduction Everyone is excited about generative AI (gen AI) nowadays and rightfully so. You might be generating text with PaLM 2 or Gemini Pro, generating images with ImageGen 2, translating code from language to another with Codey, or describing images and videos with Gemini Pro Vision.  No matter how you’re using gen AI, at the […]

As new digital-native exchanges explore running exchanges in the cloud, the focus is often on specific requirements such as latency, determinism, and resilience. Generalized storage and compute paradigms are not enough — supporting trading in the cloud requires a unique approach. This is why, for several years, Google Cloud has adopted workload optimization and intentional […]

Today, Google announced Gemma, a family of lightweight, state-of-the art open models built from the same research and technology that we used to create the Gemini models. We’re pleased to share that Google Cloud customers can get started today customizing and building with Gemma models in Vertex AI and running them on Google Kubernetes Engine […]

Are you ready to bridge the digital divide, deliver citizen-centric services, and future-proof your agency in 2024? Public sector technology is evolving at breakneck speed, with AI, cybersecurity, and sustainable solutions taking center stage. Join us at Google Cloud Next ‘24, April 9-11. Here are 10 great reasons to register now for Next ‘24! Master […]

The potential of video analytics and generative AI to revolutionize industries is immense. These technologies are opening new frontiers in automated insights, decision-making, and content generation. By marrying AI insight and audio data, organizations are realizing benefits across the span of business, from increased sales and revenue to enhanced customer experiences and reduced costs. Any […]

Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements is crucial for every bank’s business. While financial regulation is a broad area, detecting and preventing market manipulation and abuse is absolutely mission-critical for an investment bank of Deutsche Bank’s size. This is called trade surveillance. At Deutsche Bank, the Compliance Technology division is responsible for the technical implementation of […]

At Google Cloud we are constantly working on providing capabilities to improve the cost-efficiency of your infrastructure. One of the ways to do that is to stop or suspend your Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs), to avoid compute charges if they are idle. However, if you manage your applications with Managed Instance Groups (MIGs), this […]

At loveholidays, one of the UK’s fastest-growing online travel agents, we consider ourselves a tech company that sells travel. Our tech stack underpins everything we do. Previously, technology placed a limit on what we could achieve. The two large sales peaks we experience every year — at the end of the year and over the […]

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for February 2024. Today I’ll be looking at our latest Threat Horizons report, which provides a forward-thinking view of cloud security with intelligence on emerging threats and actionable recommendations from Google’s security experts. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the […]

British author and novelist L.P. Hartley once said, “The past is a foreign country: They do things differently there.” This sentiment is especially true in the realm of mainframe migrations, which often trigger unforeseen changes across an organization. Processes established in mainframe environments tend to be delivered as centralized internal services with critical capabilities, such […]