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The google cloud tag on WindowsForum.com covers news and analysis about Google Cloud's role in enterprise IT, cloud infrastructure, and AI. Recent discussions compare Google Cloud with AWS and Microsoft Azure on market share, hiring pipelines, and data platform strengths. Threads also cover Google DeepMind leadership changes, Gemini model deployments at companies like Intel and TCS, and migration projects such as Pidilite's move to Google Cloud with Kyndryl. For IT professionals, the tag highlights Google Cloud's positioning in data, Kubernetes, and AI workloads, alongside practical considerations for organizations weighing cloud providers.
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    Google Cloud vs Azure Revenue: Why the 2026 Crossover Claim Depends on Restated Microsoft Data

    Google Cloud is growing faster than Azure, and the "pass Azure within a year" claim is a lot shakier than it sounds. TIKR's argument is that Alphabet's cloud unit could overtake Microsoft's flagship cloud business in quarterly revenue, and that the market isn't pricing this in. The numbers are...
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    OpenAI Models in Google Cloud: What the Model Garden Deal Means for Azure and Microsoft

    OpenAI's models are coming to Google Cloud, but the claim that this "breaks Microsoft exclusivity" is too simple. What changed is where enterprises can buy and use OpenAI models. Microsoft's position is a separate question, and OpenAI's own announcement says OpenAI and Google Cloud are...
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    Google Cloud London Outage: What the Power Fault Means for UK Banks and Cloud Resilience

    A single power fault in one London building took banking apps, courier services and court video links offline for most of a working morning. The Google Cloud outage of 20 October 2026 is now the UK's clearest recent case study in cloud concentration risk. It matters to anyone who runs workloads...
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    AI-102 Retired: Choosing AI-103, AZ-104 and Top Cloud Certifications for 2026

    If you have spent any time walking through an enterprise IT corridor lately—whether that is along Chennai’s bustling Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR) or inside a hybrid-cloud operations center anywhere else in the world—you already know the seasonal ritual. Fourth-quarter performance reviews loom on...
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    Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar Goes GA in Enterprise With Lip-Synced Video

    On September 24, 2026, Google released Live Avatar for Gemini 3.8 Live. The feature puts a generated video face, either a cartoon character or a realistic human, on Google's real-time voice model, with lip movements synced to the AI's speech. It is generally available to Gemini Enterprise...
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    Azure Demand Exceeds Capacity as GitHub Copilot Shifts to Usage Pricing

    Bernstein's quarterly cloud report, dated September 22, 2026, ranks Google first for AI cloud competitiveness and calls Microsoft the most defensive hyperscaler. The report puts Azure growth at 43%, Google Cloud at 82% and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure at 121%. It also starts coverage of CoreWeave...
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    Google Trust Services Targets Merkle Tree Certificates for 2028

    Google Cloud’s August 11 post-quantum cryptography roadmap targets Merkle Tree Certificates at Google Trust Services for 2028, giving certificate operators and enterprise IT teams a concrete reason to prepare their issuance pipelines, clients and trust infrastructure before Google’s broader 2029...
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    CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian: What Windows Admins Need to Know

    CrowdStrike’s Falcon Guardian announcement puts AI-agent security squarely in the endpoint-security conversation, but it also illustrates how carefully IT teams must separate a product launch from a fully available, independently proven security capability. Introduced on September 1, 2026, at...
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    AWS Dave Levy Exit Confirmed; David Appel Takes Acting Role

    AWS vice president Dave Levy has left Amazon Web Services, and Nextgov/FCW reports that he is joining Google — a personnel change that lands in the middle of the federal government’s increasingly consequential contest among AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle. AWS confirmed to...
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    Azure for Microsoft IT, AWS for Breadth, GCP for Data Jobs

    The useful answer to “AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: where are the best IT jobs?” is not a universal provider ranking. It is a choice between three different hiring pipelines: AWS remains the broadest entry point for infrastructure and platform roles; Azure is the most direct fit for...
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    Google DeepMind Puts Kavukcuoglu Over Gemini 3.5 Delay — Megathread

    Google has moved Demis Hassabis out of the day-to-day CEO job at Google DeepMind, giving operational control of the unit to Koray Kavukcuoglu while Hassabis becomes Google DeepMind chairman and Alphabet chief scientist. The practical change is clear even through the upbeat language: the...
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    TCS Opens Kolkata Gemini Center for Retail AI Prototyping

    Tata Consultancy Services has opened its Consumer Business Group Gemini Experience Center in Kolkata, a TCS-run co-creation facility built around Google Cloud and Google’s Gemini models for retail, consumer packaged goods, and travel and hospitality clients. The immediate consequence is narrower...
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    Azure vs Google Cloud: 21% Share Lead, Google Grows Faster

    Microsoft has a clear cloud-infrastructure market-share lead over Google, but the claim that it is “racing ahead” does not survive a close comparison of the latest earnings disclosures. Synergy Research Group’s first-quarter 2026 estimate puts Azure at 21% of worldwide cloud infrastructure...
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    Qatar University BSc in AI Begins in Fall 2026

    Qatar University has moved its AI program from scattered pilots and staff training toward a university-wide operating model that reaches degree programs, research computing, student services, cloud infrastructure and administrative automation. The immediate practical change is that QU is...
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    Pidilite Google Cloud Migration Cuts Provisioning Time 30%

    Pidilite Industries has completed a significant IT modernisation and cloud migration programme with Kyndryl and Google Cloud, moving its non-ERP workloads out of on-premises and existing cloud environments and into a new Google Cloud-based operating model. The project marks Pidilite’s stated...
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    Intel Deploys Gemini Enterprise, Google Cloud for Chip Design

    Intel and Google Cloud have expanded their multi-year partnership to roll out Gemini Enterprise across Intel’s workforce and add Google Cloud capacity to parts of Intel’s chip-development environment. The announcement, published by Intel on July 16, describes an internal IT and engineering...
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    Google Cloud Q1 Hits $20B, Backlog Tops $460B Amid TPU Push

    Alphabet’s first-quarter results have revived the argument that hyperscalers with in-house silicon may be better placed for the AI buildout than the merchant suppliers serving them. But the “sell Broadcom, buy Google” case published by 24/7 Wall St. via AOL is more a valuation call than evidence...
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    Google Cloud AlphaEvolve Launches for Enterprise Algorithm Optimization

    Google Cloud has launched AlphaEvolve, an AI system developed with Google DeepMind and being made broadly available to Cloud customers for enterprise algorithm-optimization work in areas such as chip design, logistics networks, and medical research. The immediate pitch is efficiency, but the...
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    Alphabet TPUs Give Google an AI Infrastructure Moat as Cloud Silicon Scarcity Grows

    Alphabet’s custom Tensor Processing Units, first announced publicly in 2016 after already running inside Google data centers, now give Google a structural AI infrastructure advantage as cloud rivals race to buy scarce accelerators for model training and inference. That advantage is not absolute...
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    Alphabet Near 100-Day Support as EU DMA Targets AWS and Azure

    Alphabet entered the final week of June 2026 with its shares near a widely watched 100-day moving average after a sharp weekly selloff, just as investors weighed Thursday’s U.S. jobs report against a new European Commission push to bring AWS and Microsoft Azure under Digital Markets Act cloud...