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CEO of @GoogleCloud

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@ThomasOrTK
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2 years
The rise in cyberattacks means companies have to rethink their security posture. Today we announced new capabilities to help companies & governments address top security priorities, from securing supply chains to accelerating zero trust architectures.
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Proud to bring @SpaceX ’s 1,500+ Starlink satellites together with @GoogleCloud 's infrastructure to provide the world’s businesses with broader connectivity to our fast, secure cloud network.
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I decided to join Twitter so I could share more of my team's innovative work and @GoogleCloud customers' success - starting with one of our newest, largest partnerships with @Univision . Look forward to collaborating on your digital transformation!
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Google Cloud’s new partnership with Oracle provides a path for the world’s largest enterprises to use next generation cloud and AI by combining Oracle Cloud database and Google Cloud services.
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At 9 exaflops of peak performance, our newest Cloud TPU v4 pods will enable breakthroughs in AI, all while operating with near 90% carbon-free energy. #GoogleIO
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2 years
Today's announcement with @AnthropicAI is another great example of the ecosystem of AI startups leveraging Google Cloud's reliable and open infrastructure to build their businesses.
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Today marks the next chapter of our AI journey with new tools and experiences across Google Workspace and Google Cloud that allow users, developers and businesses to harness the power of generative AI.
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We’re announcing Duet AI for Google Workspace will now be Gemini for Google Workspace. Consumers and organizations of all sizes can access Gemini across the Workspace apps they know and love.
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We're proud to announce Gemini, our largest and most capable model, to help significantly enhance how our customers build and scale with AI. We’re also announcing Cloud TPU v5p and AI Hypercomputer.
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Today at #GoogleCloudNext , we’re making significant AI announcements across every aspect of Google Cloud, which will help our customers and partners continue to innovate and transform:
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New capabilities in Bard will help programmers and software developers with code generation, debugging and code explanation. It’s an exciting next step in how generative AI can accelerate innovation across industries.
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It’s been a pleasure working with @TomSiebel and his team, who share our vision about AI’s potential to solve business problems. Organizations in healthcare, manufacturing, financial services and more can now use @C3_AI ’s solutions on Google Cloud.
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. @priceline is using Google Cloud’s generative AI tools to create more seamless booking experiences for customers, and to help employees become more productive with new workplace tools.
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Indonesia is one of the world's fastest growing consumer markets, and we're proud to partner with @aaneama and his team at @IndosatOoredoo to help Indonesian SMBs and enterprises digitize, creating new engines for long-term innovation and growth.
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With Media CDN, we’re using the same infrastructure that serves YouTube content across 200+ countries and territories to help media companies reach the next 1 billion viewers together.
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Ahead of #SAPSapphire , we’re announcing a major partnership expansion with @SAP - By integrating SAP data & systems with our data cloud, customers can use our analytics capabilities, and advanced AI tools & large language models to find new insights.
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. @gitlab is leveraging Google Cloud’s customizable foundation models and open generative AI infrastructure to help organizations deliver software faster than ever, with a privacy-first approach.
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Today, we’re announcing new capabilities across our AI stack, empowering organizations to build, use and successfully adopt generative AI to fuel their digital transformations.
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As part of our #GeminiAtWork event today, we’re showcasing nearly 50 new customer stories, underscoring how impactful generative AI can be when you put it to work at scale, including the below.
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Google Cloud is committed to open and flexible AI ecosystems that help you build solutions best-suited to your needs. We’re excited to bring Llama 3.1 to Vertex AI Model Garden, including 405B—Meta's most powerful and versatile model to date.
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Our new Work Safer program provides organizations of all sizes access to a range of industry-leading offers from Google and our partners @PaloAltoNtwks and @CrowdStrike to better protect against rising cybersecurity threats.
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We’re partnering with @PalantirTech to help businesses in retail, financial services and supply chain more easily integrate, shape and analyze their data to address the toughest operational issues.
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Our newly-launched Visual Inspection AI solution will help manufacturers automate quality control & improve accuracy up to 10X compared w/ general-purpose ML. Pilots helped customers reduce rework for circuit boards, auto parts & semiconductors. More at:
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Today at #GoogleCloudNext , we’re demonstrating new ways we’re helping organizations benefit from generative AI technologies, including our AI-optimized infrastructure, Vertex AI, Duet AI, and more.
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Good read on the backstory and potential of Med-PaLM, our medically tuned large language model that helps healthcare and science organizations benefit from generative AI in a safe, effective way.
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Today, we announced the opening of a new cloud region in Saudi Arabia, bringing high-performance, low-latency Google Cloud Platform services to customers in the country.
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2 years
Looking forward to bringing Google Cloud regions to meet growing customer needs in five new countries: Austria, Greece, Norway, South Africa & Sweden. It’s a privilege helping our global customers stay connected.
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3 years
As we end the year, I’ve been reflecting on the power of the human spirit and the capabilities of technology. I’m very optimistic about what’s in store for 2022 and wish you all a very happy and healthy new year.
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2 years
Happy New Year. Whatever resolutions you have, I hope 2023 brings you good health and happiness.
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3 years
We’re almost live at #GoogleCloudNext ! Tune in here →
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Thank you to everyone who could join us this year at #GoogleCloudNext . I hope to see you all in person next year.
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Proud to announce the newest @GoogleCloud region in Delhi! This is our second cloud region in India, designed to support the growth and digitization of businesses across the country.
@googlecloud
Google Cloud
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Our new Google Cloud region in Delhi NCR is now open and ready to host your workloads. Learn how our 10th region in Asia Pacific will help both Indian and global companies alike build highly available applications for their customers ↓
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That’s a wrap! Thank you to all that joined us in Las Vegas this week - both in-person and virtually. We couldn’t be more honored to help customers, developers and partners realize the full potential of the cloud, and we can’t wait to see what you do next.
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2 years
Today at #GoogleIO , we’re thrilled to announce AlloyDB for PostgreSQL. Based on our decades of experience designing and managing database systems, it provides superior performance and scale for the most demanding enterprise workloads.
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We’re introducing a new offering called Gemini Business, which lets organizations use generative AI in Workspace at a lower price point than Gemini Enterprise, which replaces Duet AI for Workspace Enterprise.
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We're excited to open access to Bard today, as part of our continuing efforts to deliver on our commitment to help people, businesses and communities unlock their potential with AI.
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We're expanding access to Bard in US + UK with more countries ahead, it's an early experiment that lets you collaborate with generative AI. Hope Bard sparks more creativity and curiosity, and will get better with feedback. Sign up:
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At #GoogleIO , we unveiled four important ways we’re supporting customers and partners to leverage generative AI capabilities.
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We’re proud to announce a major Google Public Sector win – we will provide up to 250,000 @USArmy soldiers with Google Workspace to help enable secure, seamless communication & collaboration.
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Today at #GoogleIO we shared the next step in the future of work with smart canvas, a new product experience in @GoogleWorkspace , to help people build deeper connections and transform collaboration.
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Today, @GoogleCloud is bringing more of Gemini to our customers with model updates and expanded availability.
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We’re announcing two new AI-powered solutions to help accelerate drug discovery and precision medicine for biotech companies, pharmaceutical firms and public sector organizations.
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Gemma is now available to Google Cloud customers within Vertex AI and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
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Introducing Gemma - a family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models for their class built from the same research & tech used to create the Gemini models.  Demonstrating strong performance across benchmarks for language understanding and reasoning, Gemma is available
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2 years
One of the best pieces of advice that still guides me today: Consider the problem someone is trying to solve and think through that lens. What advice has stuck with you over the years?
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At #GoogleIO , we announced that we’re adding new models to #VertexAI , including Gemini 1.5 Flash and PaliGemma, to continue giving customers more choice. We now offer 150+ first-party, open and third-party foundation models.
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Early-stage startups are at the forefront of innovation. That’s why we’re continuing to invest in them and, today, we're launching a new @GoogleStartups program that will help them build on @googlecloud more easily & cost effectively, and help them grow.
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Great to see @sundarpichai and @larryellison discuss the future of our partnership and what this means for our customers.
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Thanks @larryellison for the invite to join you at Oracle #CloudWorld to share how we’re bringing the best of Oracle and @GoogleCloud infrastructure, AI tools and models to our customers.
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Excited to continue bringing the best of Google AI to our customers, and help scale these efforts through our Google Cloud partnerships with @CohereAI , @C3_AI , @AnthropicAI , and more. Stay tuned for more developer details soon.
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1/ In 2021, we shared next-gen language + conversation capabilities powered by our Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). Coming soon: Bard, a new experimental conversational #GoogleAI service powered by LaMDA.
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Today at #GoogleCloudNext we outline our vision for the future of cloud. Data and AI are transforming everything around us, and open, connected ecosystems are essential to everything we do. Lots of exciting announcements from the team!
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We’re developing a gen AI Center of Excellence with @Accenture , combining its industry expertise with our advanced gen AI technology, including Gemini, to help enterprises improve how they operate and unlock new growth opportunities.
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One of the questions I hear most often from customers is “How do I get started with generative AI?” Today we’re launching new consulting services, training and blueprints to help organizations accelerate their AI journeys.
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2023 has been an incredible year of innovation. We’re inspired to see how customers and developers are already leveraging AI to do things they couldn’t before. I’m excited for the opportunities it will create in 2024 and thankful for our Google Cloud team leading the way.
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That’s a wrap! We’re honored to create a “new way to cloud” with our customers and partners at #GoogleCloudNext . Thank you for joining us and we hope to see you next year.
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2 years
We’re thrilled to announce our first Google Cloud region in South Africa! South Africa joins Google Cloud’s global network of 35 cloud regions and 106 zones worldwide.
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Happy Thanksgiving! I am grateful for my family, our teams at Google Cloud, and our customers across the globe. It’s amazing how we’ve come together to support each other and maintain a spirit of optimism throughout the pandemic.
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We’re working with @Uber to reimagine the customer experience for users, drivers and merchants by leveraging our reliable, secure-by-design foundation combined with innovative AI and data analytics.
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It’s critical that companies protect their applications in the cloud, especially as the attack surface grows and tactics continue to evolve. We recently helped a customer block the largest reported Layer 7 DDoS attack ever.
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Today we announced that Mexico will be the site of a new cloud region for Google Cloud, becoming our third in Latin America, joining Santiago, Chile and São Paulo, Brazil.
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This week, we’ll welcome thousands of people to San Francisco for our first in-person #GoogleCloudNext event since 2019. Please listen in on our keynote tomorrow to learn more about the amazing innovations we've been working on across our entire portfolio.
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Our partnership with @Replit demonstrates our commitment to building an open ecosystem for building generative AI applications powered by Google Cloud’s infrastructure.
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Looking forward to seeing how @Wipro uses Gemini Code Assist to help its developers be more productive and innovative with real-time code completions, code explanations, and more.
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#GoogleCloudNext is almost here. We can’t wait to kick off an exciting three days where we’ll share our latest technology innovations, as well as customer and partner news. We hope to see you in Las Vegas or have you join us online!
@googlecloud
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One day until #GoogleCloudNext ! Won't be able to join us in Vegas? You can still experience the big show with the best seat in 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 house! Get a no-cost digital pass to access 6 keynotes, 100 breakout sessions, 9 spotlights, and more →
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Congratulations, @tobi and the entire @Shopify team, on your impressive Black Friday / Cyber Monday scale and success. We value your partnership.
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Nerd BFCM stats: Shopify’s egress processed 145 billion requests on Friday. App servers handled peak of ~60 million requests per minute. Increase of 38%. Total GMV was $4.1b, up by 22% from last year. But Rails doesn't scale so what are we even doing 🤷‍♂️
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We look forward to welcoming @Mandiant to Google Cloud to further enhance our security operations suite and help customers address their most important security challenges.
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It was a pleasure to join @ChrstnKlein on-stage today at #SAPSapphire to discuss how customers can build an end-to-end data cloud, and utilize our analytics capabilities, advanced AI tools & large language models to find new insights from their data.
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Over 700 software partners are now powering their applications with Google’s data cloud. We are grateful for our expanding partner ecosystem who help our customers use data in more innovative ways.
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Honored to expand our partnership with @VodafoneGroup to support their @SAP environment and create a new data platform that will help them offer more personalized services and improved customer experiences.
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As we shared in today’s keynote, we’re excited to announce new ways we’re helping every business, government, and user benefit from generative AI and leading cloud technologies.
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#Sustainability is a priority for 90% of IT decision-makers, but only 67% have put sustainability targets in place. We’re helping business leaders close that gap with the cleanest cloud in the industry.
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Today, we’re announcing Nuvem, a new transatlantic subsea cable system that will connect Portugal, Bermuda & the US, helping to add capacity and decrease latency for Google users and Google Cloud customers.
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Every year I look forward to #GoogleCloudNext and connecting with all of our customers & partners. Tomorrow @sundarpichai and I look forward to sharing our latest cloud innovations and providing a view into the future of digital transformation.
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At Google Cloud, we're committed to reducing the barriers to interoperability and multicloud.
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Our new partnership with @huggingface will give developers access to Vertex AI and our AI-optimized infrastructure to serve and train more than 100K AI models, and help accelerate the next generation of AI services and applications.
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We’re working with @CareCloud to bring Google Cloud’s generative AI tools to small and medium-sized healthcare providers to enable physicians to make highly informed decisions for optimal care.
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3 years
Happy Year of the Tiger! Hoping it brings you courage to tackle the opportunities and challenges that may come your way.
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3 years
Today, we’re unveiling the next step in our approach to digital sovereignty: ‘Cloud. On Europe’s Terms,’ starting with a partnership with @tsystemscom to create a Sovereign Cloud for Germany.
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We’re excited to partner with @Ginkgo to bring their protein LLM and open API to both enterprises and individual scientists, which will help drive innovation in life sciences.
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3 years
Join me on October 12-14 for #GoogleCloudNext . Looking forward to connecting with our customers, partners and industry experts on how the cloud can solve today’s greatest business challenges.
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2 years
Wishing a Happy Mother’s Day to moms across the world. Thank you for leading us forward. #HappyMothersDay
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It’s critical we equip the next generation of cloud leaders with the skills they need to grow their careers, which is why we launched our Google Cloud Skills Boost to train more than 40 million people.
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Today we announced a number of new innovations and partnerships across our data analytics and AI portfolio to help our customers make the most of their cloud investments and deliver new experiences for their customers.
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. @Accenture and Google Cloud’s gen AI Center of Excellence has helped Fortune 500 companies adopt gen AI at scale - 45% of joint projects have moved from proof-of-concepts to production since we launched in December 2023.
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Today, we’re proud to announce significant advancements in models and enterprise platform capabilities with Vertex AI.
@googlecloud
Google Cloud
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Gemini 1.5 Flash’s 1 million token context window, low latency, and cost efficiency have quickly made it a favorite among our customers. Open this thread to see the advantages of Gemini 1.5 Flash over comparable models like GPT 3.5 Turbo ↓
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Proud to share some of the ways leading companies are using our generative AI technologies to move their ideas from experimentation to enterprise-ready applications, including @DeutscheBank , @orange and @Uber . #GoogleIO
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3 years
We are honored to partner with @reliancejio to support their mission to digitize India. We are working together to bring 5G to both companies and consumers across the country, and they are migrating many of their core businesses to Google Cloud infrastructure.
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ETtech
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🚨🚨 #BREAKING Reliance Jio to partner Google Cloud for 5G, says Thomas Kurian @SurabhiA_ET
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Looking forward to partnering with the @Bell team to modernize their IT infrastructure and create a more sustainable future. Together we'll deliver a better 5G network experience for Canadians.
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ZDNET
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Google Cloud signs multi-year deal with Bell Canada
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