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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 Cranks Up the Analytics at Next 2025

Google Cloud made a slew of analytics-related announcements at its Next 2025 conference this week, including a range of enhancements to BigQuery, its flagship database for analytics. BigDATAwire caught up with Yasmeen Ah Read more…

Google Cloud Fleshes Out its Databases at Next 2025, with an Eye to AI

Google Cloud unveiled a major round of database enhancements at its Next 2025 conference, including a host of new AI features in AlloyDB, a MongoDB-compliant API for Firestore, continuous materialized views in BigTable, 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…

Google Cloud Bolsters GenAI with ScaNN Index, Valkey Updates

Google Cloud today unveiled a slew of database enhancements designed to improve customers’ generative AI initiatives, including the general availability of ScaNN index that can support up to 1 billion vectors in AlloyD 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…

Pinecone Expands Serverless Vector DBs In the Cloud

Running a vector database in the cloud will be easier now that Pinecone is offering its vector database as a serverless offerings in Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, to go along with an existing serverless product for A 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

Hitachi Vantara Announces Virtual Storage Platform One for Hybrid Cloud Data Management

Jul 30, 2025 |

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…

NREL and Google Host AI Hackathon to Tackle Data Center Energy Challenges

Jul 25, 2025 |

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…

ScyllaDB Cloud Now Available on Google Cloud with BYOA Model

Jul 24, 2025 |

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…

DDN Powers Google Cloud Managed Lustre for AI and HPC Workloads

Jul 8, 2025 |

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…

Databricks Expands Google Cloud Partnership to Offer Native Access to Gemini AI Models

Jun 12, 2025 |

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…

NVIDIA Brings Agentic AI Reasoning to Enterprises with Google Cloud

Apr 10, 2025 |

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…

Google Cloud Unveils Ironwood TPU for Large-Scale AI Inference

Apr 10, 2025 |

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…

Informatica Adds Native Databricks and Enhanced Governance to IDMC on Google Cloud

Apr 9, 2025 |

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…

PuppyGraph Achieves Google Cloud Ready Designations for BigQuery and AlloyDB

Apr 9, 2025 |

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…

AMD Powers New Google Cloud C4D and H4D VMs with 5th Gen EPYC CPUs

Apr 9, 2025 |

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…

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