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GCP – Smile please! 3D Predict revolutionizes orthodontics with generative AI technology running on Google Cloud
If you’ve ever worn braces, you’ll know how uncomfortable and inconvenient they can be. Aside from having a mouthful of metal, there’s the sticky problem of trapped food, sleepless nights, and frequent visits to the orthodontist for adjustments. This discomfort is endured over a long period of treatment of 2+ years on average (and much […]

GCP – Empowering all to be safer with AI this Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Cybersecurity requires continual vigilance, including using built-in protections and providing resources for changing security threats. In acknowledgment of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, now in its 20th year, we recently shared our progress across a number of security efforts, and announced a few new technologies that help us keep more people safe online than anyone else. Also […]

GCP – Connecting the South Pacific with new subsea cables
Today, we’re announcing plans for the South Pacific Connect initiative, which will deliver two new transpacific subsea cables — Honomoana and Tabua — to help increase the reliability and resilience of digital connectivity in the Pacific. In collaboration with a number of partners, including Fiji International Telecommunications, Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia, […]

GCP – How Orby AI leverages Document AI to enable organizations to automate document-centric processes
Organizations are inundated with an overwhelming volume of documents that need to be processed, validated, and organized. Orby AI, powered by Document AI, helps customers automate document-centric repetitive tasks like contract processing, email processing, and invoice validation. Using Document AI’s pre-trained models — known as processors — as an important foundational layer, Orby AI learns […]

GCP – How NCR Voyix reduced cost and complexity with Log Analytics from Cloud Logging
Today, we hear from NCR Voyix, who co-creates experiences with the world’s leading retailers, restaurants and financial institutions, about their move to Google Cloud, what it meant for their log processing and analytics, and how Cloud Logging and Log Analytics has helped them take advantage of the cloud paradigm. Here at NCR Voyix, the SRE […]

GCP – Save up to 52 percent on your database compute costs with AlloyDB committed use discounts
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service that offers high performance, scalability, reliability, and availability. It is a good choice for a wide range of workloads, including transactional and mixed workloads. Each database user has unique needs, and they find different benefits from AlloyDB’s industry-leading performance. It can mean that your queries […]

GCP – What’s new with Cloud Firewall Standard
Google Cloud Firewall is a fully distributed, stateful inspection next-generation firewall that is built into our software-defined networking fabric and enforced for each workload. With Cloud Firewall, you can enable advanced network threat protection with operational simplicity at cloud scale. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the fully qualified domain name […]

GCP – GKE Stateful High Availability (HA) Controller now in public preview
Designing for application requirements is a key business consideration for any production application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). This is especially true for stateful applications, e.g., databases and message queues. But running stateful applications often means choosing between cost and availability. For instance, you can run a single replica application in a single zone, minimizing […]

GCP – How to build a conversational AI experience using generative AI to improve employee productivity
A major source of frustration for any large organization, whether non-profit, public, or private, is the difficulty that individuals and teams within the organization have in locating relevant information both internally (on intranets) and externally (on the web). Employees can waste a significant amount of time trying to zero in on the right intranet or […]
GCP – Die Cloud als Stadt: Wie Unternehmen mit adesso SE ihre digitale Infrastruktur gestalten
IT-Lösungen gibt es wie Sand am Meer. IT-Lösungen, die Kund*innen und Mitarbeitende wirklich überzeugen, sind seltener – und genau für diese Lösungen schlägt das Herz der adesso SE. Der IT-Dienstleister mit knapp 10.000 Mitarbeitenden verbindet technologische Kompetenz mit fachlichem Branchen Know-how, um Unternehmen bei der Umsetzung ihrer Softwareprojekte mit bewährten Methoden zu unterstützen. Als Google […]