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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I look at why two of the fastest-growing Cloud Wars companies are joining forces around data, AI, and industry solutions.
Highlights
00:03 — When heavy weather rolls in, it’s good to have friends around. It’s good to have partnerships, and I don’t think the AI Revolution is so much heavy weather, but that depends on how well prepared businesses are to take advantage of it, how aggressively, how thoughtfully they’re moving into this AI Revolution.
00:41 — It’s interesting, Google Cloud and Palantir, on the Cloud Wars Top 10, these are the two fastest-growing companies. Google Cloud grew 63%; Palantir grew 70%. Palantir’s commercial business grew 133% in the first quarter, so they’ve got enormous momentum.
01:30 — The Palantir Foundry platform for enterprise data management is now available on Google Cloud infrastructure and on the Google Cloud Marketplace. Google Cloud and Palantir have built connectors between Foundry and Google Cloud’s BigQuery, allowing data from those platforms and others to be pulled together for businesses to analyze.
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02:09 — Not just the technical integrations, which have to happen, but also this desire for these two companies to say, “We’re going to jointly develop industry-specific solutions around data and AI for vertical markets.” The first two they picked are retail and financial services.
03:15 — This is a dream partnership, I think. And it’s also probably an example of how, with the enormity of the prospects of what can happen here in the AI Revolution, we’re going to see more of the Cloud Wars Top 10 companies form these sorts of wide-ranging partnerships.
04:19 — There’s a big emphasis from both of these companies on keeping things open and fully accessible for whichever specific routes customers want to take. We’re seeing these inextricably bound connections here through this partnership of data, which is the fuel for AI, helping companies transform into AI-powered enterprises.
