Oh King of Leon. The band that sings Use Somebody! I know the song but couldn’t tell you who performs it. Solid band for sure Steven Dickens

I’ve questioned what it means to be a trusted independent voice. I’ve watched folks such as Kelsey Hightower work for major vendors and still be considered a trusted voice. It’s to a point that vendors who partner and competed with Google had Kelsey deliver their Keynote…

Been waiting for this to publish: OpenTofu responds to HashiCorp's cease-and-desist letter. opentofu.org/blog/our-respo…

This answers my concerns, and I appreciate how thoughtful, fair, and *kind* it is. I was hasty in my judgment, and am grateful for their generous reply.

I had never heard of the band King of Leon until #GoogleCloudNext

What’s my clear AI-related take away from #GoogleCloudNext ? The H/W pooling is helpful but isn’t the biggest value of any of these cloud providers as it relates to speed to value. The value is in the services and software. Software remains the most difficult part of AI…

There's no question that the CUDA software dev kit has been a big part of NVIDIA 's success. An open-source alternative is on the horizon, as I discuss in my The Futurum Group Research Note 'AI in Context: UXL to Be an Open-Source Alternative to NVIDIA’s CUDA?'
Intel #ai …

⁦The Futurum Group⁩ regrouping after a day at #googlecloudnext .

That’s a wrap - #GoogleCloudNext

Lots of takeaways,but my overwhelming impression is that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure finally have stiff competition in the public cloud. Google Cloud has an easy to understand and articulate AI architecture with value add at every layer in the stack.…

We out! I enjoyed #GoogleCloudNext . Kudos to the Google events team for the quick turnaround from August to April! They didn’t skip a beat.

.Steven Dickens, VP and Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, provides his insights into the significant shift as #hyperscale cloud providers increasingly turn to custom silicon solutions to enhance performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. buff.ly/49zgHJr

Happy Anniversary Keith Townsend.

Tomorrow makes 26 years of marriage. We’ve been a couple for 30 years. I could not have imagined such a wonderful life partner! Love you Melissa Townsend

So, Nathaniel Avery @ Google Next ‘24 skipped the chance of having dinner with me last night to prepare for his presentation. It’s in Hall H. according to the staff 438 people were registered. What’s New in DevOps Tools. #GoogleCloudNext

My Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) doesn’t like congested radio environments such as keynotes. The signal is always lost. It’s my chance to eat a whole bowl of candy. If you don’t measure it, it didn’t spike.

The database engines in @GoogleCloud has the vectors as part of the data which enable simpler adoption of RAG. As data is created these vectors are created. Interesting idea. I wonder the impact to data size. Richard Seroter

There’s too much to digest from #GoogleCloudNext . I’m full after just a day and a half.

Google Gemini Cloud Assist is pretty cool if it works as demonstrated. “What was the last firewall change for this project” is a powerful prompt. #GoogleCloudNext

You have to take my word that this is Richard Seroter taking the stage for the Day 2 keynote. #GoogleCloudNext

Smart question from @GoogleCloud #GoogleCloudNext Holger Müller #AI on Sovereignty when your ERP data is stored is a SaaS offering.

MyPoV: Is this an opportunity for @GoogleCloud to offer Distributed Cloud for the SaaS provider to host the customer’s data locally?

#GoogleCloudNext

📰 Michael Dell unveils Dell's future with Gaudi 3 at Intel Vision!

Transitioning enterprises from AI trials to deployments, prepare for a shift to cognition with Dell PowerEdge with Intel Gaudi 3.💡: dell.to/43Rqycc