What’s new from Google LLC at its annual Google Cloud Next conference this week focused on your distributed cloud and new capabilities for generative AI and advanced cross-networking.
Improvements announced during the Las Vegas event included the ability to train AI models using data from the cloud or local repositories in a secure, fully managed environment.
“The best place to run AI is clearly in our public cloud regions, but there are reasons why customers sometimes can’t use these regions,” he said. Sachin Gupta (pictured), vice president and general manager of Google Cloud Infrastructure and Solutions Group. “This could be because there is a regulatory need, a compliance requirement, a survivability requirement, or a latency-related need that forces an on-premise or edge deployment. That’s why we launched Google Distributed Cloud.”
Gupta spoke with theCUBE Research analysts Savannah Peterson and Rob Strechay on Google Cloud starting in 2024 during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s live streaming studio, to discuss Google’s latest cross-cloud announcements -Networking and its business with the public sector. (*Disclosure below.)
Google Cloud supports distributed application development
Gupta said Google Cloud’s focus is on cross-cloud connectivity and opening up the web data plane to enable customizations and services that can be securely added to workloads.
“Cross-cloud networking is really about how we help build distributed applications,” he said. “This allows you to connect any of your sites to our backbone, leveraging the power of our backbone while providing the security package you prefer. We have a technology called Private Service Connect that allows you to have a proxy in front of your Google Cloud services and applications. “Now we’re extending it to other clouds, applications or services that run on-premises.”
One of Google’s most important customers in the inter-cloud network space is the telecommunications giant. Orange SA Google is working with Orange to manage data and artificial intelligence needs in 26 countries where the telecommunications company operates.
“You need to apply AI to this data and improve the customer experience,” Gupta said. “Orange is in the infrastructure business, but in the telecom and mobile infrastructure space, it doesn’t want to deal with cloud infrastructure. “We are making the Google Distributed Cloud available to them in each of these 26 countries to enable them to easily deploy services.”
Google Cloud Next’s first day announcements included news that Google Public Sector had received approval from the US government to host confidential and top secret data. The approval opened up new business opportunities for Google within the US intelligence community and the Department of Defense.
“This shifts the focus to our Google Distributed Cloud product, which has now been cleared by the US government to operate in classified and top secret use cases,” Gupta said. “Our foundation is Zero Trust and building the platform from the ground up with the Zero Trust framework in mind.”
Here’s the full video interview, part of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE Research’s coverage of Google Cloud in 2024:
(*Disclosure: Google sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Google nor other sponsors have editorial control over the content of theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)