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GCP – Intelligencia AI speeds up deployment time with Cloud SQL
Editor’s note: Powered by AI, Intelligencia AI provides a suite of solutions to help businesses in the pharmaceutical space to make more informed data-driven decisions to de-risk clinical development. With skyrocketing data volumes, commitment to quality and complex processing requirements, the health tech company realized it needed a robust, scalable and reliable database. With its […]
GCP – Salk Institute scientists scale brain research on Google Cloud with SkyPilot
Introduction The cloud, with its large numbers of the latest processors and scalable storage systems, is becoming indispensable to modern biomedical research organizations, who use it to generate and analyze vast amounts of data. However, research by its very nature is not a linear process, and so cloud resources must be flexible enough to rapidly […]
GCP – How Arvato Systems makes 3D picture production easier, faster and cheaper with Google Cloud
With the rise of ecommerce and digital business models, the need to create high-quality, photorealistic 3D pictures continues to surge. Today, the way brands photograph and style their products can play a huge role in purchase decisions. Some 87% of consumers say that product pictures are very important when making a purchase decision online while […]
GCP – GKE plus Filestore – Improve training times for AI/ML workloads by up to 37%
Problem statement and use case Training AI/ML workloads requires a lot of data, which is often stored in large numbers of small files — think training driverless cars training numerous image data or performing protein analysis, where the training set often consists of numerous small files, sized 100K to 2MB each. When selecting tools for […]
GCP – LookML or ELT? Three reasons why you need LookML
Background LookML is a powerful tool that applies business logic and governance to enterprise data analytics. However, LookML’s capabilities are often conflated with those of in-warehouse “ELT” transformation tools like Dataform and DBT. As these tools appear to be similar in nature, it is often thought that users need to choose one over the other. […]
GCP – Automate public website indexing for efficient semantic search with Vertex AI
Introduction If you’re looking to transform the way you interact with unstructured data, you’ve come to the right place! In this blog, you’ll discover how the exciting field of Generative AI, specifically tools like Vector Search and large language models (LLMs), are revolutionizing search capabilities. You will learn the power of vector search and additionally, […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Cases now provides audit history on cases
Amazon Connect Cases now provides audit history on cases, a chronological record showing which users worked on the case and what changes they made. With this launch, contact center agents and managers can more easily review case history for improved collaboration, quality assurance, and compliance, such as showing that a case was handled according to […]
GCP – Synthesized creates accurate synthetic data to power innovation with BigQuery
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series showcasing partner solutions that are Built with BigQuery. Today, it’s data that powers the enterprise, helping to provide competitive advantage, inform business decisions, and drive innovation. However, accessing high-quality data can be costly and time-consuming, and using it often involves complying with strict data compliance regulations. […]
GCP – Consuming Cloud Storage objects on GKE using the Kubernetes API – Part I
Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is an interface used to export a filesystem to the Linux kernel. Cloud Storage FUSE allows you to mount Cloud Storage buckets as a file system so that applications can access the objects in a bucket using common file I/O operations (e.g., open, read, write, close) rather than using cloud-specific APIs. […]
GCP – ABAP SDK: Powering Alphabet’s AI/ML solutions on SAP S/4HANA
At SAP Sapphire last year, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, revealed that it leverages SAP S/4HANA systems on Google Cloud to manage its critical business operations, including Finance, Supply Chain, Logistics, Planning, and Allocations. This has allowed Alphabet to consolidate over 50 billion transactions and process multiple terabytes of data every month, and better support its […]