Enabling Digital Transformation with Google Cloud

This webinar was aimed at business owners and managers already on Google Workspace who were weighing what Google Cloud could do for the rest of their IT. Riadh Fathi and Alex Kourotchkin, customer engineers at Google Cloud, presented the four topics.

The first was backup and disaster recovery for servers and other workloads, so a failure in the office or a data centre does not stop the business. The second was hosting a company website on Google Cloud infrastructure for speed and stability. The third looked at using generative AI on Google Cloud, which at the time centred on Vertex AI and Google's foundation models. The last covered the Google Cloud Marketplace, where third-party software can be deployed and billed through the same Google Cloud account.

The practical takeaway for a Gulf business: start with the workload where downtime hurts most. For many companies that is backup and recovery for on-premises servers, a contained first project that builds confidence before moving larger systems.