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Techday NZ
2 hours ago
- Business
- Techday NZ
Hitachi Vantara expands VSP One SDS features on Google Cloud
Hitachi Vantara has announced the availability of new capabilities for its Virtual Storage Platform One Software-Defined Storage (VSP One SDS) on Google Cloud Marketplace, enhancing hybrid cloud data management for enterprise customers. The update brings several enterprise features to the public cloud, notably two-way asynchronous replication, thin provisioning, and advanced data compression. These features are designed to give organisations greater flexibility, improved data efficiencies, expanded disaster recovery options, and easier data movement across both on-premises and cloud environments. Growing hybrid cloud demand As businesses increasingly adopt hybrid cloud architectures, combining public and private clouds has become common to address shifting operational requirements. Data from a 2025 cloud adoption report indicates nearly 80% of companies employ more than one public cloud, and 60% run several private clouds. This complexity often results in reduced visibility, with 47% of IT and security leaders reporting challenges in managing risk and maintaining control across distributed hybrid environments as data requirements surge with AI workloads. Hitachi Vantara's VSP One SDS, now accessible through Google Cloud Marketplace, allows customers to deploy storage resources spanning cloud and on-premises environments via a single management interface, eliminating the need for re-architecting. Features such as thin provisioning and data compression can cut cloud storage costs by up to 40% and are aimed at helping customers optimise performance while reducing expenses. Features and availability "Bringing VSP One to Google Cloud Marketplace will help customers quickly deploy, manage and grow the data management solution on Google Cloud's trusted, global infrastructure," said Dai Vu, Managing Director, Marketplace & ISV GTM Programs, Google Cloud. "Hitachi Vantara can now securely scale and support customers on their digital transformation journeys." One of the additions, two-way asynchronous replication, enhances disaster recovery by allowing both primary and secondary sites to serve as either source or target, supporting greater operational resilience. The platform supports enterprise-level availability in the public cloud and is designed for continuous uptime, targeting 99.999% availability. This functionality aims to reduce costs while allowing native migration between storage platforms and cloud providers, as well as enabling faster recovery during unplanned outages. "Customers want the freedom to choose the right cloud for every workload and the assurance that their data will remain protected, available and easy to manage," said Octavian Tanase, Chief Product Officer, Hitachi Vantara. "With availability on Google Cloud Marketplace and the addition of two-way asynchronous replication, VSP One empowers our customers to easily streamline hybrid cloud operations while strengthening their resiliency posture." Channel partner opportunities The expansion to the Google Cloud Marketplace also opens new opportunities for Hitachi Vantara's channel partners. They will be able to offer customers a more flexible, software-defined solution that integrates extensively with Google Cloud. This broadened approach helps partners address key priorities, including resiliency, security, and sustainability, and enables customers to improve operations and strengthen data protection while maximising the use of existing infrastructure. This release builds on the previous introduction of VSP 360, Hitachi Vantara's unified data management software platform, which aims to simplify the VSP One user experience and provide transparent insights into data and infrastructure assets. The addition of new features to VSP One reflects the company's ongoing efforts to develop its data management offerings, aligning with the needs of enterprises facing increased data complexity and operational risk in hybrid environments. Hitachi Vantara's move to enhance the capabilities of VSP One SDS on Google Cloud Marketplace aims to address growing hybrid cloud demands and the evolving data protection requirements of modern enterprises. Follow us on: Share on:
Korea Herald
4 hours ago
- Business
- Korea Herald
LG CNS becomes first Korean firm certified in generative AI by Microsoft, AWS, Google
LG CNS, the IT solutions arm of LG Group, announced Thursday that it has earned the 'Build AI Apps on Microsoft Azure Specialization' certification — making it the first Korean company to secure generative AI credentials from all three global cloud companies: Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. The certification is awarded to Microsoft partners who demonstrate proven success in building, deploying and managing AI solutions on Azure, and who pass rigorous third-party audits and demonstrate employee empowerment. LG CNS has recently completed projects utilizing Azure's AI services across industries including manufacturing, finance and public services. As part of its collaboration with Microsoft, the company is also operating dedicated teams and an 'Innovation Journey Workshop' to help enterprise clients prototype and validate AI-driven solutions. Additionally, LG CNS runs dedicated teams such as the 'MS Launch Center' and 'MS Cloud Team,' offering customized AI and cloud services with Azure specialists. With this certification, LG CNS joins a select group of companies globally with verified expertise in generative AI application development across major cloud platforms. It has already received AWS's 'Generative AI Competency' and became the first Asian company to acquire Google Cloud's 'Generative AI Service Specialization.' The company continues to enhance its AI service offerings through specialized technologies such as fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation and prompt engineering. 'Leveraging LG CNS's certified capabilities in AI transformation, we will continue to deliver tailored and optimized services to help our clients accelerate business innovation,' said Kim Tae-hoon, senior vice president and head of the AI & Cloud Business Division at LG CNS.
Yahoo
15 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Google is getting a boost from AI after spending billions
Google parent Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) is finally starting to cash in on the billions of dollars it's spending on its rapid AI buildout. The company reported better-than-anticipated earnings after the bell on Wednesday, with CEO Sundar Pichai pointing to AI as a key growth catalyst for its various products. Google cloud revenue climbed 32% and backlog, or purchase commitments from customers not yet realized, rose 38%. Search also performed better than expected during the quarter, with sales increasing 12% year over year. Wall Street previously raised concerns that chatbots and search offerings from AI upstarts like OpenAI ( Perplexity ( and Anthropic ( would steal users from Google's own Search product. But according to Pichai, Search revenue grew by double digits, and its AI Overviews feature, the small box at the top of the traditional search page that summarizes information, now has 2 billion monthly users. But Google also announced it's pouring even more money into its AI development, saying in its earnings release that it will spend an additional $10 billion on the technology this year, bringing its total capital expenditures from $75 billion to $85 billion. Despite that, analysts are riding high on Google's stock. In a note to investors on Wednesday, Jefferies analyst Brent Thill said Google's results back up its increased spending. 'After hiccups in early '23, [Google's] AI efforts picked up urgency and have now delivered benchmark-leading Gemini 2.5 Pro models,' Thill wrote. 'This is starting to show up in [key performance indicators], with Cloud [revenue accelerating] to 32% [year over year] from 28%, tokens processed 2x to 980 [trillion] tokens since April, and search ad [revenue accelerating] to 12% from 10%. This confidence supports '25 [capital expenditures] raise to $85B.' Morgan Stanley's Brian Nowak offered a similar outlook for Google, raising the firm's price target on the tech giant from $205 to $210. Wedbush's Scott Devitt also raised his price target on the company to $225. Malik Ahmed Khan at Morningstar pointed out that while AI Overview searches are monetizing at the same rate as standard Google searches, 'AI Overviews are helping increase search volumes within Google Search, with the feature driving over 10% more queries, leading to additional sales within the Search segment.' But behind all of that are the potentially devastating consequences from a judge's decision that held it liable for antitrust violations in search. Judge Amit Mehta of the US District Court for the District of Columbia is expected to issue a ruling on "remedies" that follows the Justice Department's victory against the company sometime next month. Judge Mehta held that Google violated antitrust law by boxing out rivals in the online search engine and online search text markets. To restore competition, he could order Google to refrain from longstanding exclusivity deals like the one with Apple (AAPL) that set Google Search as the default option on the iPhone. Mehta could also force Google to sell off its Chrome browser, the most popular web browser in the world. That would put a dent in Google's all-important search business, a dangerous proposition for the Daniel Howley at dhowley@ Follow him on X/Twitter at @DanielHowley. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Indian Express
18 hours ago
- Business
- Indian Express
Google unveils Veo 3 Fast, an upgraded AI model for faster video generation
Google has unveiled an upgraded version of its most advanced AI video generation model, Veo 3, that is said to be faster and specifically tailored for enterprises. The Veo 3 Fast is designed for speed and rapid iteration, Google said in a blog post published on Wednesday, July 30. The AI video generator can be accessed via Vertex AI, Google's developer platform for building machine learning models, from August this year. The tech giant is also bringing image-to-video capabilities to Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast. This means that users can create 8-second AI-generated video clips of static images using these tools. They have to upload a source image and a text prompt describing the video they want to create. Since its launch at Google's I/O annual developer conference in May 2025, Veo 3 has been used to generate a total of seven million videos. The company's enterprise customers have used the AI video generator to create over six million videos since it became available in public preview on Vertex AI in June this year. 'Google Cloud customers around the world are using Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast on Vertex AI to create professional-quality video content with unparalleled efficiency and creative freedom,' the Alphabet-owned company said. The upgraded model, Veo 3 Fast, can help marketers respond to trends by quickly generating and testing variations of ad concepts. It can further be used to create AI-generated videos of a company's entire product catalogue based on still images. Veo 3 Fast is also capable of providing animated explainers and training modules in less time, the company said. To address the risk of deepfakes, Google said that all AI-generated videos created using Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast will have digital watermarks embedded into every frame using SynthID. 'Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast are also covered by our indemnity for generative AI services,' the company said. This means that Google will offer protection or cover legal costs if its enterprise customers are sued for copyright infringement, violating intellectual property rights, etc. Veo 3 became available in India earlier this month. It lets users create high-definition (1080p), eight-second clips with audio in a single step. 'This means you can create scenes with characters that speak with accurate lip-syncing, and sound effects that fit the mood,' Google said. The video generator has been designed for professional marketing campaigns, product demonstrations, and internal communications. 'Veo 3's native dialogue generation helps businesses connect with an international audience by producing a video once and localising the dialogue for dozens of languages,' the company said. However, support for Hindi or any other Indian language does not appear to be available yet. It is only accessible for subscribers of the Google AI Pro package, which costs Rs 1,950 per month and is free for students.
Boston Globe
19 hours ago
- Business
- Boston Globe
CyberArk, tech firm with US headquarters in Newton, bought for $25 billion
The deal is Chief Executive Officer Nikesh Arora's largest since taking the helm in 2018 and gives Palo Alto Networks a suite of identity security tools, which help users determine who should have certain access rights within an organization. These products can also be used with artificial intelligence programs, and will be in higher demand as more companies use AI agents to perform tasks, Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Mandeep Singh and Damian Reimertz said in a note. Shares of CyberArk had gained 30% this year, giving it a market value of more than $21 billion. That increase includes the 13% jump on Tuesday. The stock was little changed before markets opened on Wednesday. Shares of Palo Alto fell 5.9%. Advertisement Cybersecurity providers are becoming more acquisitive, with some looking to offer a full platform of products to customers that are seeking to save money by reducing vendors. Alphabet Inc. agreed to buy the cyber startup Wiz this year for $32 billion to add to its Google Cloud business. In April, Palo Alto announced plans to buy the startup Protect AI, which specializes in securing AI and machine learning applications and models. Advertisement JPMorgan Chase & Co. advised Palo Alto and Qatalyst Partners advised CyberArk.
