Why the supercloud must become a reality
The IT environments of today can be highly complex. Organizations often deploy multiple cloud services and still run some applications on-prem. Companies are eager to make the management of all these workloads smoother and cheaper. The concept of a "supercloud," a layer of governance that sits abov... Read more
Google BigQuery centralizes tools for data engineers and integrates with Vertex AI
Google is releasing updates to its BigQuery data platform. As in Google's other announcements, AI is once again the main subject. Furthermore, BigQuery will get a new, centralized interface.
BigQuery will be equipped with AI. Google announced this at the Cloud Next conference. This and other enh... Read more
Everybody can create their own AI with Google Cloud
Google CEO Sundar Pichai opens the Google Cloud Next event. He reflects on the Cloud AI platform, specifically Vertex AI and Duet AI. How different organizations are using AI to develop custom solutions. For example, GM, the car manufacturer, is developing a personal assistant in its cars. Pichai e... Read more
Google Cloud accelerates AI development with new TPU and VMs
Google Cloud is expanding its TPU and GPU offerings for AI workloads. TPU v5e is available in preview immediately, while A3 GPU VMs will become generally available starting next month.
Google Cloud has announced two additions to its offerings for AI infrastructure. AI workloads show huge differ... Read more
Google Cloud expands Vertex AI, more than 100 LLMs available
Google Cloud offers access to more than 100 LLMs, but also lets customers customize LLMs. Google has updated its existing LLMs and added models from various parties to its offerings. The models can now also be seamlessly integrated into organizations' applications with Vertex AI Extensions.
It's... Read more
Store your AI workloads in Google Cloud’s customized cloud storage services
Google Cloud is releasing three new cloud storage services for AI workloads. Each service is designed for the needs of a specific AI workload.
AI brings new digital capabilities to businesses but also increases existing storage needs. Like other digital components of a business, AI can be store... Read more
Lack of supercomputers postpones breakthroughs in medical world
Supercomputers should enable new research opportunities for the medical world. That is however currently not the case. Researchers' ideas are piling up, while the accessibility of supercomputers is still vastly limited.
One researcher at Harvard dealt with the shortage of supercomputers innovat... Read more
Google’s new Pricing API should keep cloud costs manageable
Google has unveiled a new API that maps out costs for cloud services. An improvement on the existing Billing Catalog API, the new option with outlining prices should take more account of the specific situation of the company in question. Pricing API is available in public preview form to any custom... Read more
Microsoft licensing remains doubtful, AWS gets Office privilege
Following commentary from other cloud providers, Microsoft is now drawing attention to its own licensing practices. A new policy exempts only AWS customers from additional fees to run Microsoft software in the AWS cloud.
Microsoft appears to be getting ahead of AWS users in a new user agreement.... Read more
Login credentials are the main entry point for hackers into your cloud
In the spring, hackers broke into companies' cloud services primarily through employee login credentials. So IT teams better make it a priority to strengthen authentication methods and follow up on data breaches.
Hackers were able to enter enterprise cloud environments most often by misusing lo... Read more