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GCP – Generative AI use cases to inspire your Startup or Small Business
Everyday, more and more small businesses and startups are leveraging generative AI for their internal and customer-facing needs, with over 70% of gen AI’s billion dollar-unicorns using Google Cloud. As the technology continues moving at a rapid pace, with almost daily announcements of products and features, businesses are discovering new use cases and ways to […]
GCP – Accelerating a carbon-free future with hourly energy tracking
In 2020, Google announced its most ambitious clean energy goal yet: to operate on 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) globally by 2030. This means matching the electricity demand from our global operations, including our data centers and offices, with carbon-free energy supply – every hour of every day, in every region where we operate. When we […]
GCP – Cloud Deploy adds pipeline automation and Cloud Run Jobs support
Today, we’re excited to announce the latest update in Google Cloud’s portfolio of DevOps tools. Customers are already using Cloud Deploy for continuous delivery, enabling the definition and manual control of application delivery pipelines, facilitating canary deployments and verification, and more. And now, with the introduction of delivery pipeline automation in preview, Cloud Deploy now […]
GCP – The Content Conundrum: How poor personalization and search experiences impact streaming platforms and their audiences
In an unexpected plot twist,streaming platforms are currently facing their own cliffhanger as an unprecedented period of slowing subscriber growth. According to Macquarie Research, net subscription adds dropped more than 80% YoY in Q1 2022 across Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, HBO Max/Discovery+, Paramount+, Peacock, and AMC+C. With endless content now available across a multitude of […]
GCP – Kramp digitizes the agricultural equipment supply chain to keep farmers farming
Farmers face many challenges outside of their control when it comes to growing, harvesting, and delivering crops. One area — keeping equipment well-maintained and running — is fundamental to every farm’s operations. In theory, it should also be something they have some level of control over. With more than 70 years serving farmers across Europe, […]
GCP – Memorystore for Redis Cluster is GA and provides up to 60 times more throughput and microseconds latency
Since we launched Memorystore for Redis Cluster in preview, customers across a variety of industries including banking, retail, ads, manufacturing, and social media have taken advantage of the performance and scalability of Memorystore for Redis Cluster. Today we’re thrilled to announce the general availability (GA) of Memorystore for Redis Cluster, providing a 99.99% SLA with […]
GCP – Google researchers discover ‘Reptar,’ a new CPU vulnerability
This year, Google has seen an increase in the number of vulnerabilities impacting central processing units (CPU) across hardware systems. Two of the most notable of these vulnerabilities were disclosed in August, when Google researchers discovered Downfall (CVE-2022-40982) and Zenbleed (CVE-2023-20593), affecting Intel and AMD CPUs, respectively. This trend proves only to be intensifying as […]
GCP – Savimbo scales conservation and reforestation with Google Cloud
Savimbo was founded to facilitate a better way to help stop deforestation of the Amazon rainforest by directly paying small farmers and indigenous groups to be good stewards of the land. Smallfarmers control 80% of the world’s tropical forests, guarding 70% of its carbon stores. Indigenous groups are 5% of the world’s population guarding 80% […]
GCP – Vertex AI Search adds new generative AI capabilities and enterprise-ready features
Our vision for Vertex AI Search, unveiled earlier this year and made generally available in August, is to leverage our deep experience in information retrieval and generative AI to help enterprises enable their customers, employees, and other stakeholders to discover critical information at speed, uncover hidden insights across data, and improve productivity. The easy setup […]
GCP – Build your own gen AI-powered vector search applications with Vertex AI Search
The world has been amazed in the last year by the power of generative AI — and vector embeddings are part of the behind-the-scenes magic. Embeddings are a way of representing data – text, images, videos, users, music, and more – as points in space. When two points are close, they are semantically related. For […]