In a pretty substantial move into trying to own the entire AI stack, Google today announced that it will be rolling out a version of its Tensor Processing Unit — a custom chip optimized for its machine learning framework TensorFlow — optimized for inference in edge devices. That’s a bit of a word salad to […]
View More Google is making a fast specialized TPU chip for edge devices and a suite of services to support itCategory: google cloud
Google is rolling out a version of Google Voice for enterprise G Suite customers
Google today said it will be rolling out an enterprise version of its Google Voice service for G Suite users, potentially tapping a new demand source for Google that could help attract a whole host of new users. Google voice has been a long-enjoyed service for everyday consumers, and offers a lot of benefits beyond […]
View More Google is rolling out a version of Google Voice for enterprise G Suite customersFigure Eight partners with Google to give AutoML developers better training data
Figure Eight, a platform that helps developers train, test and fine-tune their machine learning models, today announced a major new collaboration with Google that essentially turns Figure Eight into the de facto standard for creating and annotating machine learning data for Google Cloud’s AutoML service. As Figure Eight’s CEO Robin Bordoli told me, Google had […]
View More Figure Eight partners with Google to give AutoML developers better training dataGoogle’s Cloud Functions serverless platform is now generally available
Cloud Functions, Google’s serverless platform that competes directly with tools like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions from Microsoft, is now generally available, the company announced at its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today. Google first announced Cloud Functions back in 2016, so this has been a long beta. Overall, it also always seemed as […]
View More Google’s Cloud Functions serverless platform is now generally availableGoogle announces a suite of updates to its contact center tools
As Google pushes further and further into enterprise services, it’s looking to leverage what it’s known for — a strong expertise in machine learning — to power some of the most common enterprise functions, including contact centers. Now Google is applying a lot of those learnings in a bunch of new updates for its contact […]
View More Google announces a suite of updates to its contact center toolsGoogle Cloud CEO Diane Greene: “We’re playing the long game here”
Google is hosting its annual Cloud Next conference in San Francisco this week. With 20,000 developers in attendance, Cloud Next has become the cloud-centric counterpart to Google I/O. A few years ago, when the event only had about 2,000 attendees and Google still hosted it on a rickety pier, Diane Greene had just taken over […]
View More Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene: “We’re playing the long game here”Google Cloud’s LA region goes online
Google Cloud’s new region in Los Angeles is now online, the company announced today. This isn’t exactly a surprise, given that Google had previously announced a July launch for the region, but it’s a big step for Google, which now boasts five cloud regions in the United States. It was only three years ago that […]
View More Google Cloud’s LA region goes onlineGoogle’s Apigee teams up with Informatica to extend its API ecosystem
Google acquired API management service Apigee back in 2016, but it’s been pretty quiet around the service in recent years. Today, however, Apigee announced a number of smaller updates that introduce a few new integrations with the Google Cloud platform, as well as a major new partnership with cloud data management and integration firm Informatica […]
View More Google’s Apigee teams up with Informatica to extend its API ecosystemGoogle Cloud’s COO departs after 7 months
At the end of last November, Google announced that Diane Bryant, who at the time was on a leave of absence from her position as the head of Intel’s data center group, would become Google Cloud’s new COO. This was a major coup for Google, but it wasn’t meant to last. After only seven months […]
View More Google Cloud’s COO departs after 7 monthsGoogle Cloud will launch its Los Angeles region in July
It’s no secret that Google has long planned to open a cloud region in Los Angeles. The company has long said that a second region on the U.S. West Coast was in the works, after all. What we didn’t know for sure was when this new region would go live. But as Google announced today, […]
View More Google Cloud will launch its Los Angeles region in JulyWith Cloud Filestore, the Google Cloud gets a new storage option
Google is giving developers a new storage option in its cloud. Cloud Filestore, which will launch into beta next month, essentially offers a fully managed network attached storage (NAS) service in the cloud. This means that companies can now easily run applications that need a traditional file system interface on the Google Cloud Platform. Traditionally, […]
View More With Cloud Filestore, the Google Cloud gets a new storage optionGoogle Cloud announces the Beta of single tenant instances
One of the characteristics of cloud computing is that when you launch a virtual machine, it gets distributed wherever it makes the most sense for the cloud provider. That usually means sharing servers with other customers in what is known as a multi-tenant environment. But what about times when you want a physical server dedicated […]
View More Google Cloud announces the Beta of single tenant instances