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GCP – Unlocking New Frontiers: The Synergy of of Audio Transcripts using Video Intelligence API and Generative AI
The potential of video analytics and generative AI to revolutionize industries is immense. These technologies are opening new frontiers in automated insights, decision-making, and content generation. By marrying AI insight and audio data, organizations are realizing benefits across the span of business, from increased sales and revenue to enhanced customer experiences and reduced costs. Any […]
GCP – Serverless data architecture for trade surveillance at Deutsche Bank
Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements is crucial for every bank’s business. While financial regulation is a broad area, detecting and preventing market manipulation and abuse is absolutely mission-critical for an investment bank of Deutsche Bank’s size. This is called trade surveillance. At Deutsche Bank, the Compliance Technology division is responsible for the technical implementation of […]
GCP – Introducing Managed Instance Groups standby pool: Stop and suspend idle VMs
At Google Cloud we are constantly working on providing capabilities to improve the cost-efficiency of your infrastructure. One of the ways to do that is to stop or suspend your Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs), to avoid compute charges if they are idle. However, if you manage your applications with Managed Instance Groups (MIGs), this […]
GCP – loveholidays: improving the contact center experience with conversational AI
At loveholidays, one of the UK’s fastest-growing online travel agents, we consider ourselves a tech company that sells travel. Our tech stack underpins everything we do. Previously, technology placed a limit on what we could achieve. The two large sales peaks we experience every year — at the end of the year and over the […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Guidance from our latest Threat Horizons report
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for February 2024. Today I’ll be looking at our latest Threat Horizons report, which provides a forward-thinking view of cloud security with intelligence on emerging threats and actionable recommendations from Google’s security experts. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the […]
GCP – Why mainframe migration is more than technology transformation
British author and novelist L.P. Hartley once said, “The past is a foreign country: They do things differently there.” This sentiment is especially true in the realm of mainframe migrations, which often trigger unforeseen changes across an organization. Processes established in mainframe environments tend to be delivered as centralized internal services with critical capabilities, such […]
GCP – How Gov Market helps to create economic opportunity in Germany with digital sovereignty
In Germany, public procurement can be a highly complex and time-consuming process. More than 30,000 procurement entities vie for contracts across a fragmented regulatory landscape, with different rules applying at the federal, state, and municipal levels. Since public procurement procedures are often time-consuming, particularly for large or high-value contracts, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often […]
GCP – Building trust in crypto payments with Google Maps Platform
Editor’s note: Today’s blog post comes from Pavel Matveev, CEO and Co-Founder, Wirex. Wirex is on a mission to take crypto mainstream while offering customers clear insights into every transaction with Google Maps Platform. At Wirex, we’ve made it our mission to bring cryptocurrency into the mainstream. As the creator of the world’s first crypto-enabled […]
GCP – Coming of age in the fifth epoch of distributed computing, accelerated by machine learning
Editor’s note: Today, we hear from Google Fellow Amin Vahdat, who is the VP & GM for ML, Systems, and Cloud AI at Google. Amin originally delivered this as a keynote in 2023 at the University of Washington for The Allen School’s Distinguished Lecture Series. This post captures Amin’s reflections on the history of distributed […]
GCP – Google Cloud expands access to Gemini models for Vertex AI customers
In December, Google announced Gemini, our most capable and general model yet. Since December, select customers like Samsung and Palo Alto Networks have been building sophisticated AI agents with Gemini models in Vertex AI, unlocking new levels of productivity, personalized learning, and more for their users. Today, we’re bringing more Gemini models to our customers […]
