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Google Cloud Next 24 Highlights
2024-04-23 03:31:31| The Webmail Blog
Google Cloud Next 24 Highlights caro2698 Mon, 04/22/2024 - 20:31 Google Cloud Next 24 Highlights April 23, 2024 by Shefali Victors, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, Rackspace Technology Over 30,000 attendees participated in this years Google Cloud Next 24 in Las Vegas from April 9 to 11. The event showcased Google Cloud developments, offering attendees technical deep dives in workshops, bootcamps and demonstrations and announcements on the latest developments in Google Cloud. Rackspace Technology was a signature sponsor and active participant in Google Cloud 24. At our booth in the exhibition hall, we showcased our Google Cloud partnership and leading-edge generative AI services and solutions from the Foundry for AI by Rackspace (FAIR). It was a great opportunity to introduce our AI expertise to thousands of attendees, including our comprehensive AI solutions for data, security, applications and platforms. At our booth, attendees participated in an interactive StickerVerse Generative AI-based activity. Participants received custom stickers featuring a live, multi-modal LLM demo using Imagen2, showcasing the potential of future generative AI applications. It wasnt all work at Google Next this year. We also had a relaxing time with our partner, Ternary, and attendees at our co-hosted happy hour at Rhythm & Riffs Lounge in Mandalay Bay. Rackspace Technology experts share insights Along with our active booth, representatives from Rackspace Technology also participated in a variety of speaking events, including: Google Cloud executive tracks: Leadership from Rackspace Technology offered exclusive interactive opportunities with senior leadership from Google Cloud and other partners throughout the week. Live sessions: We presented live talks, including my own discussion, Build Secure Architecture Designs on Google Cloud, where I discussed what cloud-native tools to use for a robust and secure cloud. We also participated in sessions with NetApp on using NetApp Cloud Volumes on Google Cloud. Google Cloud Partner Summit achieves milestone With over 2,500 partners and 400 sponsors in attendance, this years Google Cloud Partner Summit was the largest ever. At the summit, Google Cloud made several important announcements, including: Complementary AI bootcamps, challenge labs and personalized training for Google Cloud Partner Delivery Excellence portfolio. The availability of Google Cloud Consultings Delivery Navigator to all qualified service partners, which offers step-by-step instructions during project kick-off, execution and delivery. Another highlight of the event for Rackspace Technology was receiving two more honors from Google Cloud. This year we were honored to receive two additional specializations in infrastructure modernization and application development. (Little known fact: Rackspace Technology was the first Google Cloud Managed Services Provider Partner in 2017.) Key announcements from Google Cloud leadership Every year announcements from Google Cloud are a highlight of the conference. This year there were a grand total of 218 announcements! Here is an overview of some of the leading announcements presented by Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian, at the opening keynote. Vertex AI announcements Vertex AI with Gemini 1.5 Pro: Its in public preview and can now process audio streams. Imagen 2.0 on Vertex AI: It offers text-to-video generation with inpainting and outpainting and SynthID watermarking. Vertex AI Agent Builder: Currently in preview, it lets you build Customer Agents and Employee Agents using natural language or a code-first approach. Security announcements Gemini in Threat Intelligence: In preview, it offers conversational access to Mandiant Threat Intelligence within workflows. Gemini in Security Command Center: In preview, it enables natural language threat hunting, improving threat detection intuition. Gemini Cloud Assist: It provides a platform for application design, troubleshooting and optimization. It includes root cause analysis capabilities for production environments. (Note: This one looks promising, lets put this tool to work and observe how it responds.) Gemini Code Assist: Powered by Gemini 1.5 Pro, it showcases capabilities in a demo. Acting as a Tier 3 agent, it uses detailed logs to pinpoint application outage sources, faulty products and root cause, and suggests tailored resolution commands. Data analytics announcements BigQuery: It now integrates Vertex AI Gemini models for multimodal data analysis with vector embeddings and enables LLM task-specific fine-tuning on enterprise data Gemini in BigQuery and Continuous Queries in BigQuery: It constructs analytics applications and data agents, leveraging multimodal AI assistance, functioning akin to a real-time processing engine. Infrastructure announcements A3 Mega VMs powered by NVIDIA H100 tensor core GPUs: General availability is coming soon. Workspace and collaboration announcements Google Vids: An AI-powered video creation application, to be released to Workspace Labs in June 2024, and will be available inside Google Docs, sheets and slides. Development announcements Cloud Run Canvas: A unified development environment for Cloud Run applications that supports generation, modification, and deployment with integrations to Vertex AI, Firestore, Memorystore, Cloud SQL, load balancing and Gemini Cloud Assist. GKE + Ray Integration Simplified: A new checkbox in GKE's UI allows easy ray integration with Kubernetes clusters, facilitating AI model deployment. See all 218 announcements listed here. Also, view the keynote recordings here. Key event takeaway The buzz at Google Cloud Next 24 was undeniably around Gemini. Were looking forward to leveraging that momentum and using it to shape the digital landscape with our customers and partners! At Rackspace Technology, weve been expanding our presence in the AI world, harnessing numerous innovative features to set ourselves apart in the marketplace. Thanks to FAIR, we're already ahead in the AI game. Rackspace Technology continuously seeks opportunities to create value for our customers. We do this by working hand-in-hand with our valued partners, prioritizing innovation, safeguarding data, and optimizing processes to exceed expectations and build a thriving AI culture with our partners and for our customers. Every years Google Cloud Next event is an incredible opportunity to expand our know-how and expand our potential this year was no exception. Recent Posts Google Cloud Next 24 Highlights April 23rd, 2024 HIMSS 24 Healthcare IT Conference Hot Topics from AI to Partner Alliances April 22nd, 2024 Empowering Innovation: How Platform Engineering Catalyzes Enterprise Growth March 20th, 2024 ViVE 2024 Attendees Explored the Leading-Edge of Healthcare Technology in Los Angeles March 5th, 2024 How to Accelerate Your Microsoft 365 Copilot Launch with FAIR and Rackspace Technology February 27th, 2024 Links Blog Home Solve: Thought Leadership Newsroom Investor Relations Media Kit
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HIMSS 24 Healthcare IT Conference Hot Topics from AI to Partner Alliances
2024-04-22 18:19:38| The Webmail Blog
HIMSS 24 Healthcare IT Conference Hot Topics from AI to Partner Alliances caro2698 Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:19 HIMSS 24 Healthcare IT Conference Hot Topics from AI to Partner Alliances April 22, 2024 by Rackspace Technology Staff Technology is making a big impact in healthcare. For example, AI is helping analyze diagnostic test results and images, machine learning is helping personalize treatments, and blockchain is helping track and manage patient records. Nowhere are the healthcare IT trends better demonstrated than at the worlds big three healthcare conferences: ViVE, Arab Health and the recent HIMSS Global Conference and Exhibit. At HIMSS 24, thousands of healthcare professionals gathered in Orlando, Florida, on March 11 15 to discuss the present and future of healthcare IT. The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is a global advisor, thought leader and member-based society committed to reforming the global health ecosystem through the power of information and technology. Shortly after attending HIMSS 24, Rackspace Technology experts gathered to discuss the conference, including the value of attending healthcare IT conferences, the leading challenges and solutions that healthcare organizations are facing today, key themes and highlights of HIMSS 24, and how Rackspace Technology is supporting healthcare IT. During the 30-minute event recap on Cloud Talk Live, Hannah Zipp Duce, Director of Strategic Alliances, and Jason Jones, Global Senior Client Executive-Strategic Accounts, answered questions posed by the moderator, Jeff DeVerter, Chief Technology Evangelist. Here is an overview of their discussion, which is available to view on demand. DeVerter: Why attend healthcare IT conferences? Duce: Conferences help bring the community together so we can share, connect and learn from each other, and deliver better solutions. This year, AI is a hot topic at all the conferences. Its great to hear about the different use cases for AI in healthcare from organizations around the world. Jones: The top three healthcare IT conferences are different from each other in a variety of ways, such as location. For example, at the Arab Health conference, they are looking at healthcare delivery in ways that are unique from other regions of the world including everything from pharmaceutical manufacturing to keeping equipment sterile. HIMSS is the largest of the three and is global in scope, addressing the information needs of everyone from providers to payers. ViVE is the smallest of the three and it helps educate attendees in unique ways. DeVerter: What are some of the areas in healthcare where AI is having an impact now? Duce: AI is improving productivity and accuracy in a wide range of areas within healthcare, such as streamlining appointment scheduling, claims processing, data processing, image analysis and chronic disease management. Jones: Were talking about having an opportunity to deliver care to patients in better ways. The administrative side is a great place to start. But when we start looking at AI to deliver care, were seeing that clinicians dont necessarily trust it yet, because they dont understand an AI applications black-box decision-making process. Clinicians want to know things like what data was used and where did it come from to achieve the outcome it suggested. If we can provide that insight, then clinicians will be able to trust AI-driven decision-making and use it more often. DeVerter: How do our alliances with leading companies help deliver valuable solutions? Duce: When we work with our partners, like Dell Technologies, a leader in the healthcare IT space, we gain the complexity of proven solutions and the rich knowledge behind it. Then we can help amplify that expertise and deepen it. Also, while we standardize as much as possible, every customer has unique challenges that need to be solved. Our wide range of partnerships can help us create customized solutions that meet each healthcare organizations exact IT needs. DeVerter: What was the biggest takeaway from this years three healthcare IT conferences? Jones: The sheer scale of the healthcare IT ecosystem which is growing every year. This provides a bigger opportunity for Rackspace Technology to help solve healthcare organizations challenges. Healthcare providers dont always have time to find the right solutions for every challenge they face. Thats where we can help and in the long run, help them deliver better medical care. Thats our mission and our goal. Duce: For me, it was getting the chance to have multiple conversations with potential and current partners, like Dell. For example, were always learning about how the Dell Alliances Healthcare Cloud can be used in new ways. Were working with them to build more and more capabilities (Explore solutions here). That includes adding interoperability with other partners, like ELLKAY, one of our partners for data archiving, live data exchange and data management. 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