Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2023. As you read this, we’ll be kicking off the third and final day of Google Cloud Next, our annual conference where we unveil our latest advancements — especially in security. In his guest column below, my colleague Sunil Potti, vice president and general manager, Google […]

The largest generative AI models are expected to surpass hundreds of billions of parameters and use trillions of training tokens. These models will require tens of EFLOPs (1018 FLOPs) of AI supercomputing to maintain training times of several weeks or less. Achieving that performance will require tens of thousands of accelerators working efficiently together. But […]

It has been a busy few weeks for Cloud Bigtable, Google Cloud’s fully-managed, low-latency NoSQL database service. We had several big announcements leading to Google Cloud Next ’23 and even more during the event: from hybrid analytical and transactional processing (HTAP) and multi-cloud capabilities, to new cost savings and more ways to integrate with Google […]

Cloud TPUs are purpose-built for training of large language models (LLMs), Vision Transformer based architectures, diffusion-based generative models, and recommendation systems. However, up until now, orchestrating large-scale AI workloads with Cloud TPUs could be a lot of work, requiring manual effort to handle failures, logging, monitoring, and other foundational operations.  To address this challenge, this […]

The energy from startups and founders is buzzing all-around and it’s been wonderful to reconnect in person at Google Cloud Next ‘23 in San Francisco. This year, we injected even more of a startup flare to the event, with an unprecedented amount of programming custom-made for startups, including the dedicated Startup Lounge. Here, founders came […]

Google Cloud’s AI-optimized infrastructure makes it possible for businesses to train, fine-tune, and run inference on state-of-the-art AI models faster, at greater scale, and at lower cost. We are excited to announce the preview of inference on Cloud TPUs. The new Cloud TPU v5e enables high-performance and cost-effective inference for a broad range AI workloads, […]

It’s probably stating the obvious at this point, but businesses are increasingly migrating to the cloud. Whether it’s a few applications or entire data centers, it’s happening. Slightly less obvious are why businesses are migrating, but similar themes weave across each story. These reasons are often combinations of cost savings, increasing agility, improving security, enhancing […]

Data and AI are transforming every industry, and so is the supply chain that powers many of them. In recent years, supply chains have increased in visibility and impact for both businesses and consumers. At the same time, the challenges of adhering to sustainability expectations, while balancing geopolitical and financial challenges, have made it harder […]

Google Cloud is a preferred destination for enterprises embarking on their digital transformation journeys. Over the years, we’ve helped leading retailers reinvent shopping, major manufacturers rethink production, and clients across industries reimagine their hybrid work environments. All of this has been made possible by partners building, innovating, and offering services on Google Cloud. Google Cloud’s […]

AlloyDB is a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database for demanding transactional workloads. It expands PostgreSQL’s scalability and adds a columnar engine for analytical queries that enables you to derive real time insights from your operational data. AlloyDB’s performance improvements allows you to scale up your read and write performance linearly in a single machine, while read pools […]