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Vendors Rush to Adopt MCP, the USB-C Cord for AI Integration
When Anthropic unveiled Model Context Protocol (MCP) last fall, it didn’t make a whole lot of headlines. Nearly six months later, the new protocol is the talk of the town as one data infrastructure vendor after another Read more…
Google Cloud Preps for Agentic AI Era with ‘Ironwood’ TPU, New Models and Software
Google Cloud is gearing up for the agentic AI era in a big way, and its showing off its new wares this week at its Next conference. The company unveiled a slew of new AI models and new software for developing and managin Read more…
Google Kubernetes Engine Now Supports Trillion-Parameter AI Models
The exponential growth in large language model (LLM) size and the resulting need for high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure is reshaping the AI landscape. Some of the newer GenAI models have grown to well over a Read more…
Oracle Bolsters Big Data, Analytics, and AI at CloudWorld
Oracle unleashed a torrent of new analytic and AI capabilities this week at its Oracle CloudWorld conference in Las Vegas. The fun kicked off yesterday with an expansion of capabilities in AWS and Google Cloud, updates t Read more…
Google Revs Cloud Databases, Adds More GenAI to the Mix
Google Cloud has been stuck in third place among the cloud bigs for years, but it’s banking on a slew of database and AI enhancements unveiled at its Next Tokyo ‘24 conference today to help differentiate its offering Read more…
Don’t Believe the Big Database Hype, Stonebraker Warns
How we store and serve data are critical factors in what we can do with data, and today we want to do oh-so much. That big data necessity is the mother of all invention, and over the past 20 years, it has spurred an imme Read more…
This Just In
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 30, 2025 — Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today announced new capabilities for Virtual Storage Platform One Software-Defined Storage, now available on Google Cloud Marketplace. Read more…
July 25, 2025 — The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Google teamed up to host a hackathon, bringing together leading researchers from nine U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories to explore and leverage Google’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language model tools to address an array of critical challenges related to energy limitations for U.S. Read more…
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 24, 2025 — ScyllaDB Cloud, a fully-managed database-as-a-service known for predictable performance at scale, is now available with the BYOA (Bring Your Own (Cloud) Account) model on Google Cloud. Read more…
CHATSWORTH, Calif., July 8, 2025 — DDN today announced that Google Cloud Managed Lustre, a fully managed, high-performance parallel file system service, powered by DDN’s industry-leading EXAScaler technology, is now generally available. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, 2025 — Databricks today announced a new strategic product partnership with Google Cloud to make the latest Gemini models available as native products within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Read more…
April 10, 2025 — NVIDIA is collaborating with Google Cloud to bring agentic AI to enterprises seeking to locally harness the Google Gemini family of AI models using the NVIDIA Blackwell HGX and DGX platforms and NVIDIA Confidential Computing for data safety. Read more…
LAS VEGAS, April 10, 2025 — At Google Cloud Next 25, Google introduced Ironwood, its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). Ironwood is the company’s most performant and scalable custom AI accelerator to date—and the first designed specifically for inference. Read more…
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 9, 2025 — Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, today announced the expansion of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform services on Google Cloud. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, April 9, 2025 — PuppyGraph, the first real-time graph query engine built to work directly on modern data lakes and warehouses, announced today that it has achieved the Google Cloud Ready – BigQuery and Google Cloud Ready – AlloyDB designations. Read more…
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 9, 2025 — AMD today announced the new Google Cloud C4D and H4D virtual machines (VMs) are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors. Read more…