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Ease into similarity search with Google’s PaLM API
Learn how to use Google Cloud Vertex AI and the PaLM 2 large language model to create text embeddings and search text ranked by semantic similarity.
Google’s Duet AI to take on Amazon CodeWhisperer, GitHub Copilot
The new generative AI engine aims to help developers code, and offers assistance to administrators, cloud operators, data engineers, and security professionals for daily tasks.
Google’s Vertex AI machine learning platform gets generative AI tools
The new updates to Google Cloud’s machine learning service will help the company square up against rivals such as Microsoft, AWS and IBM.
Google makes AlloyDB for PostgreSQL available in 16 new regions
The PostgreSQL-compatible, fully managed database-as-a-service will come with a new feature called cross-region replication, which is currently in private preview.
Google Cloud Flex Agreements woo users during a slowdown in demand
Google Cloud Flex Agreements offer the option to migrate enterprise workloads with no up-front commitments, and provide access to free storage, compute and network services such as Spanner, BigQuery, and AutoML.
How to become a multicloud developer
Cloud spending is on the rise, and more organizations are investing in multicloud strategies. Here's how developers and architects can gain an edge in this rapidly evolving field.
Some rain in the AWS, Azure, and Google clouds
With recession at the gates and cloud growth slowing, the big three cloud vendors still find ways to succeed.
Google aims for BigLake data lake support for all unstructured data
What you need to know about Google Cloud Next data announcements: BigLake support for Apache Iceberg, Hudi and Delta Lake; BigQuery adds unstructured data, Apache Spark and DataStream support; Looker Studio unifies business...
Google kicks up ‘openness’ a notch
A series of smart decisions to create an open cloud ecosystem has moved the cloud giant into a position of power. But turning that openness into sustainable advantage won’t be easy.
Which cloud is for you?
Despite all their commonalities, the big three cloud providers have some important personality differences that should factor into your choices.
Is open source leadership helping Google?
Google’s huge commitment to open source projects shows in GitHub contributor counts, while AWS’s strategy has been making open source easy for customers to use. Who’s winning?
Cloud spending can’t stop, won’t stop
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud may be seeing their growth slow, and enterprise budgets may be squeezed, but CIOs are still committed to spending on cloud computing.
Google Cloud revenue soars past $6 billion
However losses widened, as Google continues to invest in its cloud division to keep pace in the highly competitive cloud computing market.
IT career roadmap: Director of engineering
A Google Cloud Platform director of engineering reflects on her education and career path, including founding her own startup and timely advice from other women in tech.
Google Cloud targets high performance workloads with Arm-based VMs and Batch job scheduling
The cloud vendor is expanding its VM capabilities and made a move to simplify high-end computing tasks.
Google Firebase expands Extensions to become more customizable
Google is extending its Firebase software development platform to allow developers to customize pre-built code extensions themselves.
Google Cloud sales chief Rob Enslin is leaving for UiPath
The ex-SAP sales leader is leaving the cloud vendor at a time when it is investing heavily in an effort to catch up with rivals Microsoft and Amazon Web Services.
