When you want to search for something, your instincts take you to the Google search bar on your browser but did you know Google is amongst the top-three cloud providers in the world? Building on its technical chops that made its search engine ubiquitous, it has been offering cloud services for the past 10 years. Google had carved out a niche for itself, working with startups and smaller companies in its early days. However, it’s now a serious contender for enterprise clientele, with a big data and machine learning background to bolster its product catalog.
At their flagship conference in San Francisco Google Cloud Next18 that spanned last week (July 24-26th 2018), Google proudly showcased its new tools, technologies customer successes, spotlights, new partnerships, and more to build out its ecosystem. Google has long seen success in its AI and machine learning efforts, and now it is fully realizing their potential among enterprise customers and developers. The company’s 100+ announcements at the conference touched on three key themes: Artificial intelligence (AI), developers, and unified cloud.
ASEI Silicon Valley President Piyush Malik, who serves in key leadership role at a silicon valley headquartered startup SpringML, participated in the conference and shared his thoughts with the attendees. SpringML is a rapidly growing Premier partner to Google Cloud for Machine Learning and Data Analytics. His talk was based on their offerings in the domain of Predictive maintenance using Google Cloud IOT and Machine Learning and successful implementations at clients. While painting a picture of need for maintenance of industrial assets and machines of all kinds across industries, using research and studies from industry bodies and leading analysts, he proved how maintaining equipment based on predictive algorithms is better than time based approach hitherto followed in preventive maintenance. Using the concept of “remaining usable life” (RUL) of sensor enabled components of heavy equipment, most of which are interconnected in today’s world of IOT, he demonstrated that applying machine learning techniques and algorithms can lead to savings and productivity gains. The SpringML demo combined with client testimonial from Mike Branch, VP of Analytics at Geotab delivered a very powerful message home.. very true to the theme of the conference “ Made Here Together”
Overall, Google Cloud Next ‘18 was an incredible experience! From fantastic keynotes and fireside chats to GO-JEK CTO Ajey Gore appearing on-stage on a scooter to listening to Target CIO Mike McNamara over 25000 attendees had an inspiring, educational and entertaining week at this conference. There were more than 290 customer speakers sharing their stories of business transformation in the cloud and taking part in hundreds of breakout sessions.Here are some of the glimpses.
