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Google Cloud Next 2025: Targeting easy AI
Las Vegas has been taken over by Google Cloud this week, with Google Cloud Next 2025 in full flow. There have already been a number of headline grabbing announcements: we’ve seen the launch of a powerful new AI accelerator chip by the name of Ironwood, huge updates to Google Cloud’s security capabilities, and new agentic AI development kits for enterprises.…
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Google shakes off tariff concerns to push on with $75 billion AI spending plans – but analysts warn rising infrastructure costs will send cloud prices sky high
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has confirmed the company will still spend $75 billion on building out data centers despite economic concerns in the wake of US tariffs. While many were paused or reduced yesterday, heavy tariffs still remain on China, potentially raising the cost of infrastructure projects deemed necessary to enable the development and rollout of AI. Speaking at the…
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Google Cloud wants to tackle cyber complexity – here’s how it plans to do it
Google Cloud has announced a new unified security platform for enterprises, delivering new interoperability and AI capabilities for cyber teams and reducing time spent investigating threats in cloud environments. Google Unified Security combines products, telemetry, and context from Google Threat Intelligence, Mandiant, Google Security Operations, and Google Security Command Center, to provide organizations with an intelligent overview of threats. Referred…
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Google Cloud announces major computing boost with Ironwood chip, new hypercomputer upgrades
Google Cloud has announced a new chip intended for AI inference, which it says is more powerful and better for AI requirements but also far more energy efficient. Ironwood, Google Cloud’s 7th generation tensor processing unit (TPU), offers five times more computing power than the firm’s previous-generation Trillium chips. Each Ironwood pod is capable of 42.5 exaflops of performance, which…
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Google Cloud Next 2025 is the hyperscaler’s chance to sell itself as the all-in-one AI platform for enterprises
Google Cloud Next 2025 is imminent, with Google Cloud poised to unveil a slew of new cloud, AI, security, and channel announcements to a small army of Las Vegas attendees. You don’t have to try very hard to guess what the focus of Google Cloud Next 2025 will be: like every other tech conference for the past two years, it…
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European cloud group invests to create what it dubs “Trump-proof cloud services”
But analysts have questioned whether the Microsoft move truly addresses those European business concerns. Phil Brunkard, executive counselor at Info-Tech Research Group UK, said, commenting on last month’s announcement of the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, “Microsoft says that customer data will remain stored and processed in the EU and EFTA, but doesn’t guarantee true data sovereignty.” And…
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Oracle customers confirm data stolen in alleged cloud breach is valid
Despite Oracle denying a breach of its Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers and the theft of account data for 6 million people, BleepingComputer has confirmed with multiple companies that associated data samples shared by the threat actor are valid. Last week, a person named ‘rose87168’ claimed to have breached Oracle Cloud servers and began selling the alleged authentication data and encrypted passwords…
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What is AI-native cloud and what does it mean for business?
Over the years, cloud-native has become an integral part of many businesses’ operations, with a cloud-first approach to tech and a focus on application scalability. According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), these applications live in public, private, and hybrid clouds and are defined by the presence of containers, service measures, microservices, and other infrastructure qualities. A new version…
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The role of AI and cloud in true digital transformation
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has impacted countless aspects of business and work, with the digital transformation landscape among those affected most, especially when you consider it through the prism of cloud computing. While digital transformation is undoubtedly essential to business growth, capitalizing on it means tapping into the latest technological trends — with the integration of AI into…
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Navigating devirtualization as businesses move away from the cloud
The landscape of virtualization is rapidly shifting, with Gartner having recently noted that infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams are actively exploring their public, distributed and private cloud options. This involves some organizations leaning towards either devirtualization, where workloads are migrated from virtual to physical environments, or revirtualization, where workloads are moved back to virtual environments, or to a different provider.…
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