How Google Cloud Optimizes Infrastructure for Workloads

Overview

Discover how Google Cloud optimizes its infrastructure for various workloads in this 12-minute video presentation. Explore the design and organization of VM families and storage families to meet diverse needs, from traditional enterprise applications to cloud-native scalability. Learn to select the ideal VMs based on specific requirements and understand how Google Cloud simplifies and automates the process of choosing optimal solutions for different usage patterns and workloads. Gain insights into flexible, scalable hardware options that promote faster innovation at lower costs. Examine compute-optimized and accelerator-optimized solutions, as well as market trends in AI-driven infrastructure. Understand the benefits of improved block storage in the cloud, including potential 50% lower TCO for storage-intensive workloads. Presented by Ruwen Hess and Chelsie Czop, this informative talk is part of the Google Cloud Next series, focusing on modernization strategies for cloud infrastructure.

Syllabus

Intro
Transformative: Flexible, scalable hardware optimized to help you innovate faster and cheaper
Compute Optimized
Accelerator Optimized
Market Trends: Al demands purpose-built infrastructure to be successful
What does better block storage on the Cloud look like?
50% lower TCO for storage intensive workloads