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GCP – Announcing the with Maps Hackathon Winners
In October, we partnered with Hack2skill to conduct the </Code> with Maps Hackathon in India. The challenge to hackathon participants was to build or expand an existing app to incorporate rich location experiences using Google Maps Platform APIs and SDKs to solve a problem relevant to India. More than 7,500 developers registered and their innovative […]

GCP – Google is a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services
For the sixth consecutive year, Gartner® has named Google a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services. Over the past year, we have continued to invest in platform and go-to-market capabilities that have an immediate impact on the speed and simplicity of building solutions on Google Cloud. We are focused […]

GCP – Google Cloud unique technology enables new DoD capabilities
Google Cloud is a platform delivering services that range from basic infrastructure to unique, differentiated services that empower users to accomplish a mission or business task. It allows our Department of Defense (DoD) and other public sector customers to innovate with unmatched security, scale, and service. So what makes us so different from the next […]

GCP – Chrome Enterprise 2023: A Year of Innovation Wrapped Up
Chrome turned 15 this past September (wow, time flies)! Our original goal — to build a browser that’s fast, reliable, secure and easy to use — continues to guide the work that we do to build a better web experience for both consumers and business. On the enterprise side, we’ve specifically focused our efforts over […]

GCP – Enabling next-generation AI workloads: Announcing TPU v5p and AI Hypercomputer
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GCP – Dynamic Workload Scheduler: Optimizing resource access and economics for AI/ML workloads
We are in the midst of an exciting era of AI-driven innovation and transformation. Today we announced AI Hypercomputer, a groundbreaking architecture that employs an integrated system of AI-optimized hardware, software, and consumption models. With AI Hypercomputer, enterprises everywhere can run on the same cutting-edge infrastructure that is already the backbone of Google’s internal AI/ML […]

GCP – Five ways artificial intelligence is accelerating the auto industry’s green shift
The automotive industry stands at the precipice of a profound transformation, spurred by the imperatives of sustainability utilizing technology and climate innovation. Amidst increasing climate concerns, regulatory pressures, and the demands of consumers and investors alike, automakers and their suppliers are actively steering towards a more sustainable horizon and taking accountability. Unpacking the sustainability imperative […]

GCP – Autoscaling Dataproc for Trino workloads
Trino is a popular, open-source, distributed SQL query engine for data lakes and warehouses. It is used by many businesses to analyze large datasets stored in Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Cloud Storage, and other data sources. Dataproc is a managed Hadoop and Spark service that makes it easy to set up and manage clusters. […]

GCP – Inside the eDreams ODIGEO Data Mesh — a platform engineering view
Editor’s note: Headquartered in Barcelona, eDreams ODIGEO (or eDO for short) is one of the biggest online travel companies in the world, serving more than 20 million customers in 44 countries. Read on to learn about how they modernized their legacy data warehouse environment to a data mesh built on BigQuery. Data analytics has always […]
GCP – Built-with Google AI: Meet Vivien, EPAM’s digital assistant with the power of Google Cloud gen AI
Businesses are under increased pressure to do more with less, while customer expectations and demands have never been higher. Today’s enterprises need a way to be more productive, effective, and responsive while still addressing the operational challenges of cost containment, risk reduction, security, and compliance. Google Cloud partner of 15 years, EPAM Systems, a leading […]