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The ultimate proving ground for AI's promise? It's the customer experience. ⚡ At this year's Google Cloud Next, host Tiffani Bova and Colleen Kapase, VP Channels and Partner Programs at Google Cloud discussed how Google Cloud is transforming partner opportunities with its latest co-sell and services registration announcement. Find out how Google Cloud is giving partners the tools they need to succeed by truly understanding customer needs and embracing deep verticalization. Key takeaways include: 🔹Elevated Partner Roles: The rise of AI is transforming the partner landscape, demanding a shift towards more consultative, solution-oriented selling that addresses specific business outcomes. 🔹Vertical Expertise is Key: Partners are increasingly leveraging Google Cloud's verticalized solutions to deliver deep industry expertise and drive impactful results for customers. 🔹AI Across the Stack: From infrastructure to applications, AI is infused throughout the Google Cloud ecosystem, enabling partners to deliver comprehensive solutions that meet the evolving needs of their clients. 🔹Partner Enablement and Growth: Google Cloud is heavily investing in partner enablement, providing the tools, resources, and incentives they need to build successful AI practices and drive customer value. Watch the full video here: https://lnkd.in/eZ3EM8Na

What good is tech if nobody uses it? 🤷♂️ Forget just having the coolest AI and cloud tools. What businesses REALLY crave is a strategic partner who gets their real-world challenges. That's why Google Cloud is focused on the customer experience. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman met with Google Cloud President of Customer Experience, Hayete Gallot, who shared that customers are looking for a strategic partner to help them navigate the complexities of AI and cloud adoption, focusing on tangible value, security, and sustainable growth. https://lnkd.in/ec_U4-QP

 Need AI, but can't risk your data? 🤔 Keith Townsend, Chief Technology Advisor at The Futurum Group, highlights Google Distributed Cloud's (GDC) new solution: air-gapped Gemini for secure, on-prem AI deployments. #GoogleCloudNext #AI

Is it your "uncle AL" or "A1 steak sauce"? 😉 Whatever you want to call it, artificial Intelligence is supercharging mainframe technology. Get the details on the latest episode of The Main Scoop with hosts Daniel Newman and Greg Lotko. Special guest David Watts breaks down the latest tech upgrades in the IBM z17. https://lnkd.in/eQK_axZy

The future of AI isn't just about the models; it's about the pipes, platforms, and systems that power them.⚡ At Google Cloud Next 2025, Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman are joined by Mark Lohmeyer, VP & GM Compute and ML Infrastructure at Google Cloud, to explore the crucial infrastructure driving the AI revolution and how Google Cloud is designing for the next generation of AI workloads. From system-level innovation across compute, storage, and networking to the unveiling of the AI Hypercomputer architecture, Google Cloud is facilitating accelerated AI training and serving through hardware! Key takeaways include: 🔹Workload-Optimized Infrastructure: Google Cloud is laser-focused on delivering systems-level design across compute, storage, and networking, tailored to meet the unique demands of diverse AI workloads. 🔹Democratizing AI Access: Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform provides a user-friendly interface, enabling both sophisticated and enterprise customers to easily access and leverage Google's cutting-edge AI models. 🔹Driving Innovation Through Hardware: Google Cloud is investing heavily in a broad portfolio of accelerator platforms, including GPUs and TPUs, to provide customers with the flexibility and performance they need. 🔹Systems-Level Approach: Google Cloud is building a comprehensive AI hypercomputer, encompassing optimized hardware, software, and consumption models, to power the AI applications of the future. #GoogleCloudNext

🛡️ Ever wonder where your most sensitive info – credit card details, medical records lives? It's sitting on a mainframe somewhere, and you'd better hope that it's secure! IBM's Christopher Berry and Tina Tarquinio share how IBM is bringing quantum-safe tech to the new z17. https://lnkd.in/eMCzyUNj

The future of cloud is being driven by REAL business outcomes. ☁️ At Google Cloud Next 2025, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman are joined by Hayete Gallot, President, Customer Experience at Google Cloud, to share how the company is structuring its approach to empowering businesses to effectively leverage AI. From the strategic significance of customer experience to the critical role of partners, the three explore exciting prospects for the year ahead! Key takeaways include: 🔹Customer Co-Creation is Key: Google Cloud is actively partnering with clients to co-create AI solutions, ensuring that technology is tailored to specific industry needs and challenges. 🔹A Holistic Approach to Customer Success: Google Cloud is bringing together its solutions, industry, customer engineering, partner, and learning teams to streamline the customer journey and accelerate time to value. 🔹Driving Real-World ROI: The emphasis is on helping customers move beyond experimentation and achieve tangible ROI from their AI investments, with a focus on practical applications and measurable outcomes. 🔹Empowering Customers and Partners: Google Cloud is committed to an open ecosystem, providing partners with the tools and resources they need to build and deliver AI solutions that address diverse customer needs. #Google #GoogleCloudNext

From robots to real-time video streaming 🤖 GTC 2025 showcased the magnitude of AI's impact. But as Diana Blass discovered, this isn't just about flashy applications; it's about fundamentally rethinking the infrastructure that powers them. A key piece of that infrastructure? Storage. And companies like Dell and Solidigm are stepping up to meet the unprecedented demands of AI workloads. Catch highlights from featured tech leaders Mary Elizabeth Sheehan, CA-AM, Director of Global Alliances at LTIMindtree, Ihab Tarazi, SVIP & CTO, AI, Compute & Networking at Dell Technologies, Keith Townsend, CTO Adviser at The Futurum Group, and Solidigm pros, Cody N., Thermal Mechanical Engineer, Avi Shetty, Senior Director of AI Market Enablement & Partnerships, Ty Macadam, Senior Sales Account Executive, alongside Jacob Yundt, Director of Compute Architecture at CoreWeave. They emphasize that partnerships are critical for handling the resource-intensive requirements of AI workloads and enabling businesses to translate AI's potential into tangible results. Key takeaways include: 🔹Storage at the Forefront of AI: As AI applications become more sophisticated, they require massive datasets delivered at lightning speed. This is driving the development of advanced storage solutions like Solidigm's liquid-cooled, fanless systems, which are crucial for optimizing performance and efficiency in AI-centric data centers. 🔹Addressing the Heat Challenge: The increasing power density of AI systems is pushing cooling demands to the limit. Solidigm's innovative liquid-cooled SSDs directly address this challenge, enabling data centers to support more compute capacity. 🔹Powering the AI Explosion: Companies like CoreWeave, a major provider of cloud infrastructure for demanding AI projects, are relying on high-capacity storage solutions from Solidigm to manage the explosive data growth generated by multimodal LLMs and other AI applications. 🔹A Holistic Data Center Transformation: The AI revolution necessitates a comprehensive overhaul of the data center, where storage, compute, and networking must work in perfect harmony.

From Chatbots to Autonomous Agents? 🤖 The AI revolution is unfolding in stages, and David Nicholson, SVP and Global Technology Advisor at The Futurum Group, is here to guide you through it! He breaks down the 3 key phases of generative AI and asks: Where is your business on this transformative journey? #AI #GenerativeAI #Tech

Newman vs. Moorhead! 🥊 "The Flip" gets intense as Daniel Newman argues Trump's tariff war is a calculated move to reclaim US manufacturing & leverage economic power. Patrick Moorhead defends the counter POV, highlighting the immediate economic damage, alienated allies, & consumer impact. Who's got it right? Listen & decide! https://lnkd.in/e_yMtw6P