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GCP – Elevate your workload resilience in console with data protection for Compute Engine
Protecting your data in the cloud is more critical than ever. As your Google Cloud deployments grow, managing your data protection strategy for Compute Engine workloads can become complex. That’s why we’re excited to announce a streamlined experience that simplifies data protection with powerful capabilities that are purpose-built for Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk, and Backup and […]

GCP – An inside look into Google’s AI innovations: AI Luminaries at Cloud Next
Today, I’m pleased to announce the launch of AI Luminaries programming at the upcoming Google Cloud Next conference. This is a unique forum where some of the top researchers, scientists, and technology leaders in the world will engage with Google experts across a variety of critical AI domains, including research, infrastructure, distributed systems, and AI […]

GCP – AlloyDB for PostgreSQL: Two years of innovation and industry leadership
Two years ago, on a mission to redefine enterprise-grade databases we released AlloyDB for PostgreSQL in production. We saw the immense popularity and flexibility of PostgreSQL — a database developers love for being open-source — and we knew we could build upon that strong foundation to create a next generation fully managed database with a […]

GCP – A framework for adopting Gemini Code Assist and measuring its impact
Software development teams are under constant pressure to deliver at an ever-increasing pace. As sponsors of the DORA research, we recently took a look at the adoption and impact of artificial intelligence on the software development lifecycle. The research shows that more than 75% of developers are relying on AI in their daily responsibilities. With […]

GCP – Using RDMA over Converged Ethernet networking for AI on Google Cloud
All workloads are not the same. This is especially the case for AI, ML, and scientific workloads. In this blog we show how Google Cloud makes the RDMA over converged ethernet version 2 (RoCE v2) protocol available for high performance workloads. Traditional workloads Network communication in traditional workloads involves a well-known flow. This includes: Movement […]

GCP – Gen AI Toolbox for Databases announces LlamaIndex integration
We are excited to announce LlamaIndex integration for Gen AI Toolbox for Databases (Toolbox). We launched Toolbox in beta last month and are thrilled to continue building on that momentum. Gen AI Toolbox for Databases is an open-source server that streamlines the development and management of sophisticated generative AI tools that can connect to databases. […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions
Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights announces support for Amazon Aurora and RDS databases hosted in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Database Insights is a database observability solution that provides a curated experience designed for DevOps engineers, application developers, and database administrators (DBAs) to expedite database troubleshooting and gain a holistic view into their database fleet health. […]

GCP – Google Cloud at GTC: A4 VMs now generally available, A4X VMs in preview
At Google Cloud, we’re thrilled to return to NVIDIA’s GTC AI Conference in San Jose CA this March 17-21 with our largest presence ever. The annual conference brings together thousands of developers, innovators, and business leaders to experience how AI and accelerated computing are helping humanity solve the most complex challenges. Join us to discover […]

GCP – Accelerating AI in healthcare using NVIDIA BioNeMo Framework and Blueprints on GKE
The quest to develop new medical treatments has historically been a slow, arduous process, screening billions of molecular compounds across decade-long development cycles. The vast majority of therapeutic candidates do not even make it out of clinical trials. Now, AI is poised to dramatically accelerate this timeline. As part of our wide-ranging, cross-industry collaboration, NVIDIA […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces policy based enforcement for responsible AI
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy-based enforcement capabilities to build safe, generative AI applications at scale. This new feature enables customers to apply specific guardrails to model inference calls, ensuring responsible AI policies are applied across all AI interactions. Bedrock Guardrails provides configurable safeguards to detect and filter undesirable content, topic […]