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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I look at why Google Cloud’s new Gemini Enterprise could reshape enterprise AI and force competitors to raise their game.
Highlights
00:44 — I think we’re going to see Google Cloud leapfrog the competition with Gemini Enterprise. I believe it’s absolutely a breakthrough product — enormously impressive. I’ll have a longer, detailed article later today on cloudwars.com where I go into more depth, but let me offer a few thoughts here.
01:06 — First of all, it’s going to force all the AI and cloud players to step up to a different level. For roughly the past three and a half years — since the launch of ChatGPT 3.5, when the AI Revolution kicked off — the tech industry has released an incredible array of dazzling, powerful, highly capable, and truly breathtaking technologies. At the same time, most of those technologies have required customers to assemble everything themselves.
01:37 — Gemini Enterprise, in its new format, pulls together everything Google Cloud offers — very open, easy-to-work-with technologies from other companies, plus access to all the data customers have. That’s where I think it will really help customers who have been spending far too much on integration costs trying to rationalize their AI investments.
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02:08 — Second, it connects systems of record. Google particularly called out data from applications like Workday, Salesforce, platforms such as Palantir, and ServiceNow — making it easy for customers to pull data from all those places. Industry-specific and domain-specific agents are also central to what Google Cloud is building into this new Gemini Enterprise version.
03:05 —Third, security. Google Cloud is introducing everything from an agentic security operations center to autonomous security agents that continuously look for threats, report back, and take action. This isn’t passive security — hoping nothing happens — but an active stance: getting ahead of threats.
03:56 — Finally, the powerful partner ecosystem. This has always been a major part of Google Cloud’s strategy. Thomas Kurian has made partnerships a centerpiece — not just Google Cloud technologies, but the force-multiplying effect of partners playing a huge role in what customers can now achieve with the new and improved Gemini Enterprise.
