Traditional companies will accelerate their transition to cloud in 2024, said Bikram Singh Bedi, MD, Google Cloud India, stressing that Generative AI will continue to be a big deal.
The companies are looking at all kinds of use cases and Google Cloud is helping them build various solutions vis-a-vis content generation, summarisation, discoverability, business/process automation and increasing employee productivity. “We are seeing a lot of adoption as far as Google Cloud solutions are concerned,” said Bedi, adding that they’re working with companies across the board — Jio, Airtel, Mahindra and Mahindra, Adani Group, Apollo Hospitals and HDFC Bank, to name a few.
With a massive increase in their digital surface, security has become the foremost concern for traditional companies as the number of tools has increased but skills/manpower remain limited. “Google is essentially working in this space — when our customers use Google Cloud, they use our infrastructure around security. We provide various tools, including Mandiant, to make our customers more secure and help them with things like intrusion detection and red teaming exercises,” Bedi said.
Mandianthelps companies quickly get back to business after a security event. Google acquired the cyber security firm in 2022.
Listing out a slew of partnerships and initiatives undertaken by Google Cloud in the AI space, Bedi said, “We announced a center of excellence with the ministry of electronics and IT, where we are working with the government’s Bhashini platform. We’ll be using government data sets to train models using Google Gen-AI technologies and then Bhashini will train them further in Indian languages using its own technology.”
In a mammoth project, the company plans to train over a million students and professionals in Gen-AI knowledge and skills. Apart from this, it will also provide security-related training to 1,000 government personnel, whom Bedi would like to call the ‘cyber force’.