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This is obvious government contract baiting. Kudos though they might actually move some Google Distributed Cloud this way
by holografix 2y ago
This is obvious government contract baiting. Kudos though they might actually move some Google Distributed Cloud this way
- aduffy 2y agoI don’t think so. To my knowledge GCP has no approval for classified networks, which is by far the hardest part. Contrast with Azure OpenAI has been approved to run on government networks for over a year now. This feels like a play for companies in highly regulated industries, GCP has a notable list of biopharma customers.
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- ZeroCool2u 2y agoFedRAMP High is the mark you really want to hit for the US Government and GCP's service coverage is surprisingly broad in that realm.
- skybrian 2y agoFrom Google's blog post: > Our GDC air-gapped product, which is now authorized for US Government Secret and Top Secret missions, and on which Gemini is available, provides the highest levels of security and compliance.
- Maxious 2y ago>Today at Google Cloud Next, we're thrilled to announce another significant milestone for Google Public Sector: the authorization of Google Distributed Cloud Hosted (GDC Hosted) to host Top Secret and Secret missions for the U.S. Intelligence Community, and Top Secret missions for the Department of Defense (DoD). https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/google-public-sector-achieves-top-secret-and-secret-cloud-authorization https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/google-pu...
- aduffy 2y agoYou are right, I should’ve RTFA
- nkassis 2y agoBanking as well, this is the kind of offering they've been looking for a while. Google just saw the demand decided to jump in while OpenAI and Anthropic probably calculated they don't have the manpower to deal with the support for this.
- reaperducer 2y agoThis is obvious government contract baiting You don't have to be a government agency to not want your company's data all over the place.
- connicpu 2y agoWith a few exceptions for companies with highly secretive data, you do have to be a government agency or working in a highly regulated government-adjacent area for secured private clouds to be a requirement carved in stone and therefore worth investing a ton of extra money into though.
- reaperducer 2y agoJust off the top of my head: Healthcare. Banking.
- surajrmal 2y agoBoth of which are encumbered with regulations that want them to need this.
- SoftTalker 2y agoNeither approaches the secrecy needed by government installations. Health care and banking leak PII regularly and never really suffer any consequences.
- culopatin 2y agoThey’ll have to fight Microsoft who’s been promising copilot.
- noitpmeder 2y agoFinancial firms with significant on-prem datacenter use will love this as well. My company still stays away from the cloud -- we have 6 DCs in the building, and run everything else out of colocated racks.
- brcmthrowaway 2y agoWho provides internet
- jychang 2y ago> financial firm That means they have direct fiber connections to the Tier 1/Tier 2 guys. The big ones have direct fiber connections to the NYSE. If they're not rolling their own connection, they're using BT Radianz, IPC Systems, Colt Technology Services, etc.