Storage-dense workloads need consistent performance, high SSD density, and predictable maintenance that preserves SSD data. Last week at Google Cloud Next ‘24, we announced the general availability of the Z3 machine series, our first storage-optimized VM family. With an industry-leading 6M 100% random-read and 6M write IOPs, an incredibly dense storage configuration of up to 409 SSD (GB) per vCPU and a highmem configuration (1 vCPU : 8 GB RAM), Z3 VMs provide a consistent performance and maintenance experience with minimal disruptions for storage-dense workloads such as horizontal, scale-out ..read more

At Google Cloud Next 2024 we announced the general availability of Hyperdisk Storage Pools, the first block storage offering from a hyperscale cloud provider to offer thin-provisioning, data reduction, and capacity pooling. Hyperdisk Storage Pools help you lower your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by as much as 30-50%, helping you achieve higher efficiency, modernize SAN-based workloads, and simplify block storage management. You can get started with Storage Pools in the Google Cloud console today.  In this blog post, let’s take a look at how Hyperdisk Storage Pools work, and how to incor ..read more

Organizations are increasingly adopting streaming technologies, and Google Cloud offers a comprehensive solution for streaming ingestion and analytics. Cloud Pub/Sub is Google Cloud’s simple, highly scalable and reliable global messaging service. It serves as the primary entry point for you to ingest your streaming data into Google Cloud and is natively integrated with BigQuery, Google Cloud’s unified, AI-ready data analytics platform. You can then use this data for downstream analytics, visualization, and AI applications. Today, we are excited to announce recent Pub/Sub innovations answering ..read more

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has emerged as a leading container orchestration platform for deploying and managing containerized applications. But GKE is not just limited to running stateless microservices — its flexible design supports workloads that need to persist data as well, via tight integrations with persistent disk or blob storage products including Persistent Disk, Cloud Storage, and Filestore. And for organizations that need even stronger throughput and performance, there’s Hyperdisk, Google Cloud's next-generation block storage service that allows you to modify your capacity, thr ..read more

BigQuery allows you to analyze your data using a range of large language models (LLMs) hosted in Vertex AI including Gemini 1.0 Pro, Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision and text-bison. These models work well for several tasks such as text summarization, sentiment analysis, etc. using only prompt engineering. However, in some scenarios, additional customization via model fine-tuning is needed, such as when the expected behavior of the model is hard to concisely define in a prompt, or when prompts do not produce expected results consistently enough. Fine-tuning also helps the model learn specific response st ..read more

To advance President Biden's Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence, the U.S. Department of the Treasury joins forces with Google Cloud to reimagine talent acquisition. The Treasury will harness the newly announced Google Cloud Certificates to drive a new skills-based hiring effort to expand access to jobs in data analytics and cybersecurity. "In an age of rapid innovation and adoption of new technology offering the promise of improved productivity, it is imperative that we equip every worker with accessible training and development opportunities to understand and apply this new technolog ..read more

Google Cloud is on a mission to help everyone build the skills they need for in-demand cloud jobs. Today, we're excited to announce  new learning opportunities  that will help you gain these in-demand skills through new courses and certificates in AI, data analytics, and cybersecurity. Even better, we’re hearing from Google Cloud customers that they are eager to consider certificate completers for roles they’re actively hiring for, so don’t delay and start your learning today.  Google Cloud offers new generative AI courses Introduction to Generative AI Demand for AI skil ..read more

We know you are hard at work as ChromeOS administrators. Across the globe, you are managing millions of ChromeOS Devices in education and businesses across the globe. Individuals who become ChromeOS certified are able to create their personalised profiles in the ChromeOS certified Directory and today we are thrilled to announce some new Professional ChromeOS Administrator certified benefits that reinforce our commitment to ChromeOS certified individuals. Read on for a look at what’s to come for our certified community. Starting today, an official ChromeOS certified digital toolkit will no ..read more

Google Cloud Next made a big splash in Las Vegas this week! From our opening keynote showcasing incredible customer momentum to exciting product announcements, we covered how AI is transforming the way that companies work. You can catch up on the highlights in our 14 minute keynote recap! Developers were front and center at our Developer keynote and in our buzzing Innovators Hive on the Expo floor (which was triple the size this year!). Our nearly 400 partner sponsors were also deeply integrated throughout Next, bringing energy from the show floor to sessions and evening events throughout the ..read more

Embeddings represent real-world objects, like entities, text, images, or videos as an array of numbers (a.k.a vectors) that machine learning models can easily process. Embeddings are the building blocks of many ML applications such as semantic search, recommendations, clustering, outlier detection, named entity extraction, and more. Last year, we introduced support for text embeddings in BigQuery, allowing machine learning models to understand real-world data domains more effectively and earlier this year we introduced vector search, which lets you index and work with billions of embeddings a ..read more