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Persistent Enters into Strategic Partnership Agreement to Drive Innovative Solutions Powered by Google Cloud

 11th June 2024 – Persistent Systems  a global Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization leader, announced a long-term Strategic Partnership Agreement with Google Cloud for expanded reach across the US, India, UK, and Australia. This agreement focuses on driving joint go-to-market activities and accelerating digital transformation for enterprises globally. Using Google Cloud’s Gemini models, along with other innovative Google technologies, the Company will develop industry-specific solutions to drive broad-based GenAI adoption. The agreement will enable Google Cloud and Persistent to deliver market-leading solutions that help enterprises maximize the ROI from their cloud investments while modernizing their infrastructure and data stack.

Under this strategic agreement, Persistent will leverage its deep domain expertise, combined with Google Cloud’s advanced platforms and AI, to create innovative solutions tailored for the BFSI, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Communications, Media and Telecom, Consumer Tech, and Hi-Tech industries. It will accelerate the adoption of emerging AI-driven technologies and create unique value propositions for clients as they receive early access to the new offerings. The collaboration will also lead to rapid deployment of services and comprehensive support to clients, enhancing overall customer satisfaction. Furthermore, Persistent will have access to additional resources from Google Cloud to build new solutions, leading to faster time-to-market.

Persistent has made significant investments in its go-to-market initiatives and talent reskilling program to strengthen the partnership with Google Cloud. The Company has invested significantly across seven Specializations, most recently acquiring Data & Analytics and Machine Learning Specializations, 52 expertise designations, and over 87% of Persistent’s engineers are trained on GenAI technologies. As a highly specialized Global Solutions Systems Integrator (SSI) partner, Persistent showcases a strong track record of its capabilities and expertise in integrating and implementing Google Cloud solutions.

With this expanded partnership, Persistent and Google Cloud will continue to help joint clients capitalize on the power of cloud for improved scalability and innovation.

Sandeep Kalra, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Persistent:
“As a client-centric organization, we remain committed to delivering client value through access to the unique capabilities and solutions of our curated partner ecosystem. Our new Google Cloud Strategic Partnership Agreement, combined with our industry-leading cloud practice and Google Cloud’s pioneering technologies, positions us to set new benchmarks for what can be achieved through cloud, data and analytics, and AI. Together, we will continue to deliver unparalleled value to our clients by offering the scale, efficiency, and enhanced security necessary to help our clients create differentiation and growth.”

Kevin Ichhpurani, Corporate Vice President, Global Ecosystem and Channels, Google Cloud:
“Global organizations today are digitally transforming with Google Cloud’s trusted infrastructure, services, and generative AI. This new Strategic Partnership Agreement will help these organizations accelerate their cloud- and AI-driven transformations with leading technology from Google Cloud and thousands of specialized and certified experts from Persistent. We’re excited to work with Persistent to bring even more cloud and AI services and solutions to enterprises.”

Women Role Models in STEM Shine at myAvtar Career Conference, 2024

STEM Shine at myAvtar Career Conference, 2024

Bengaluru, May, 2024: Avtar Group, India’s leading Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Solutions firm, hosted the myAvtar Career Conference (MACC) at Karnataka Trade Promotion Organization (KTPO), Bengaluru today.

myAvtar Career Conference (MACC), the career extravaganza brought together inclusive companies and a vast pool of women talent from the field of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) under one roof. Participating Companies included, Aditya Birla Group, Publicis Sapient, Broadridge Financial Solutions India Limited, Moody’s, Renault Nisan Tech, IBM India, Google Cloud, HDFC ERGO, ACT, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Gallagher, Happiest Minds Technologies Limited, Stryker, Verisk, AKJ Somaiya Institute Of Management, among many others.

Tailored for Women in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM), MACC offered a unique platform to connect, collaborate, and converse with like-minded professionals, industry-leading companies, and renowned experts in the industry. The conclave was an ecosystem designed to foster learning, sharing, and networking for women in the STEM field; an opportunity to explore new horizons in the STEM field, to grow personally and professionally, and to unlock a world of possibilities. The conference witnessed a large gathering of students, educators, professionals, and industry leaders who shared their knowledge, experiences, and insights.

Avtar Group also announced the winners of their inaugural “Women in STEM” Awards. This Awards recognize and celebrate the outstanding achievements of women who are making significant strides in the STEM fields. In STEM Icons 15 plus years of work experience category, Vaijayanthi Srinivasa Raghavan Senior Director, UPS India Technology Centre, Priya Kanduri, CTO, SVP – Cyber Security Services, HappiestMinds Technologies Limited, Deepti Singh, Deputy General Manager- Head of Department System Installation, Renault Nissan Tech have received top 3 awards. In STEM Divas 8-15 years of work experience category, Subbulakshmi Ramkumar, Deputy Manager, RNTBCI, Yogita Bhanwaria, Senior Manager, Biocon Biologics Limited, MuthuSusithra Devarajan, Team Manager, Broadridge Financial Solutions have received top 3 awards. In STEM Stars 2-8 years of work experience category, Nishtha Mahendru, Consultant, Applied Innovation Exchange, Capgemini, Nidhi Raut, Sr. Engineer, Renault Nissan Technology Business Centre India (RNTBCI), Indujaa Thangavel, Broadridge Financial Solutions have received top 3 awards.

“One of the key sectors that has the potential to boost women’s workforce participation, is the STEM industry. While 43%of STEM graduates are women, they make up only 28% of the STEM workforce. Moreover, women drop out of the workplace due to childbirth, childcare and elder care. Consequently, only 3 percent of women hold CEO posts in the STEM Industry. While research has established that improving women’s workforce participation can boost India’s GDP by 27%, more women in STEM would set the stage for inclusive innovation and solution designs that are equitable for all. Women have historically been underrepresented in STEM, yet they bring invaluable perspectives and ideas to these fields. MACC awards recognizes the exceptional talent, the brilliance, and diverse perspectives of women in STEM,” said Dr Saundarya Rajesh, Founder – President, Avtar Group announcing the awards at the myAvtar Career Conference today in Bengaluru.

“Through MACC, we are acknowledging the remarkable work being done by women in STEM and also addressing the systemic barriers they face. Our goal is to create an environment where every individual, regardless of gender, has the opportunity to thrive and drive progress,” added Dr Saundarya.

At the conference, three organizations with the “Best Programs for enabling women in STEM”Biocon Biologics Pvt Ltd, Kyndryl and Molecular Connections Pvt Ltd were also recognized.

In addition to the awards, the myAvtar Career Conferences hosted a series of panel discussions, skilling tracks conducted by IBM, Google Cloud, Johnson & Johnson and Publicis Sapient exclusively for women. The event also provided a platform for knowledge exchange, mentorship, collaboration, further strengthening the presence and influence of women in the STEM field.

The conference hosted in the hybrid mode –saw an attendance of over 3000 women at the on-ground event, while there were over 2000 attendees virtually. Companies opened up jobs from entry-level to senior-level positions across India – Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Pune, Bhubaneshwar, Madurai and Coimbatore.

NetApp Partners with Google Cloud to Maximize Flexibility for Cloud Data Storage

NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced an expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud to make it easier for organizations to leverage their data for generative AI (GenAI) and other hybrid cloud workloads. NetApp and Google Cloud are announcing the Flex service level for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes which supports storage volumes of nearly any size. NetApp is also releasing a preview of its GenAI toolkit reference architecture for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) operations using Google Cloud Vertex AI platform.

More Flexible Data Storage Options for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes

Google Cloud and NetApp are announcing a new service level for NetApp Volumes called Flex that gives customers more granular control to adapt their storage and performance to match the exact needs of their cloud workloads.

“Increasing demand for data-intensive applications and insights has reinforced the need for a new approach to unified data storage that gives organizations the agility to move and store data wherever it is needed at any point in time,” said Pravjit Tiwana, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Storage at NetApp. “By extending our collaboration with Google Cloud, we’re delivering a flexible form factor that can be run on existing infrastructure across Google Cloud system without any tradeoffs to enterprise data management capabilities.”

With the addition of Flex, NetApp Volumes customers can choose from four service levels to leverage a fully managed file service built on NetApp ONTAPTM and operated by Google Cloud, including:

Standard: highly available, general-purpose storage with advanced data management capabilities and 16MiB/sec per TiB of performance, which is recommended to support workloads such as file shares, virtual machines (VMs), and DevTest environments.
Premium: highly available, high-performance storage with advanced data management capabilities and 64MiB/sec per TiB of performance, which is recommended for file shares, VMs, and databases.
Extreme: highly available, low-latency, high-throughput storage with advanced data management capabilities and 128MiB/sec per TiB of performance, which is recommended for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) high-performance databases and low-latency applications.
Flex: highly available storage volumes with scalability from one GiB to 100TiB and up to one GiB/s of performance depending on the size of the underlying storage pool. This adaptable service level can support a wide variety of use cases, including AI.

“Google Cloud NetApp Volumes remains a critical component of every enterprise’s digital transformation strategy,” said Sameet Agarwal, GM/VP, Google Cloud Storage at Google Cloud. “Utilizing Google Cloud technologies, NetApp Volumes will power new capabilities that can improve how businesses operate and create real-world value for their organizations.”

The Flex service level will be generally available by Q2 2024 across 15 Google Cloud regions, expanding to the other Google Cloud regions by the end of 2024.

Unlocking Enterprise Data for Generative AI in Google Cloud

NetApp is also releasing a preview of its GenAI toolkit with support for NetApp Volumes. This offering, along with the accompanying reference architecture, speeds the implementation of RAG operations while enabling secure, consistent, and automated workflows that securely connect data stored in NetApp Volumes with Google Cloud Vertex AI platform. The result is a greater ability to generate unique, high-quality, and ultra-relevant insights and automations.

“As the intelligent data infrastructure company, we have unmatched capabilities to support data classification, tagging, mobility, and cloning for data wherever it lives so our customers can run efficient and secure AI data pipelines,” said Pravjit Tiwana, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Storage at NetApp. “Building on our partnership with Google Cloud to streamline RAG enables customers to tap into market-leading AI services and models to generate a unique competitive advantage.”

The NetApp GenAI toolkit helps optimize RAG processes with unique capabilities, including:

Common data footprint everywhere: NetApp ONTAP allows customers to easily include data from any environment to power their RAG efforts with common operational processes while reducing risk, cost, and time to results.
Automated classification and tagging: NetApp’sBlueXP classification service automatically tags data to support streamlined data cleansing for both the ingest and inferencing phases of the data pipeline, ensuring that the right data is used for queries and that sensitive data is not exposed to the model out of policy.
Fast, scalable snapshots: ONTAP Snapshot delivers near-instant creation of space-efficient, in-place copies of vector stores and databases, allowing immediate roll back to a previous version if data is corrupted or forward if point-in-time analysis is needed.
Real-time cloning at scale: ONTAP FlexClone technology can create instant clones of vector index stores to safely make uniquely relevant data instantly available for different queries for different users, without impacting the core production data.

“GenAI is a tidal wave of opportunity for the companies that can effectively apply their data to their industry,” said Miles Ward, CTO at SADA, An Insight Company. “At SADA we are fired up about pairing our extensive expertise with NetApp and Vertex AI to help customers accelerate their AI journeys. Why generate uninformed chats when you could generate unique, specific, relevant insights?”

The GenAI toolkit will be available as a public preview within the second half of 2024.

To learn more about the Flex service level for NetApp Volumes or the GenAI toolkit reference architecture for Vertex AI, visit the NetApp booth #1231 at the Google Cloud Next 2024 conference running from April 9-11 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

Additional Resources

All Your Datasets are Welcome on Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. Did We Say No Trade-Offs?
Introducing Google Cloud NetApp Volumes Flex Service Level
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes

MongoDB Expands Collaboration with Google Cloud

New Delhi—April 12, 2024—MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) today at Google Cloud Next ‘24 announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to make it even easier and more cost- effective to build, scale, and deploy generative AI applications using MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and Vertex AI from Google Cloud, along with additional support for data processing with BigQuery. The companies are also collaborating on new industry solutions for retail and manufacturing, with deeper product integrations and solutions to provide a seamless development environment for creating engaging shopping experiences and data-driven applications for smart factories. For customers looking to run workloads that use highly sensitive data, MongoDB Enterprise Advanced (EA) is now available on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC). To get started with MongoDB on Google Cloud, visit trymongodb.com/gcp.

 “MongoDB’s strong partnership with Google Cloud is the result of our close collaboration to meet the unique demands of organisations across industries,” said Alan Chhabra, Executive Vice President of Partners at MongoDB. “Being awarded Google Cloud Partner of the Year – Marketplace is a testament to our commitment to providing the best solutions for customers building modern applications, while operating under the highest levels of security and data privacy requirements. We look forward to continuing to grow our partnership as more customers choose MongoDB and Google Cloud to enhance their businesses with new classes of generative AI applications.”

 “Customers continue to tell us they want world-class generative AI support built into the leading tools they already use, such as MongoDB.” said Stephen Orban, Vice President of Migrations, ISVs, and Marketplace at Google Cloud. “MongoDB and Google Cloud have already helped thousands of joint customers successfully build and deploy applications with MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud. We’re excited to continue to build on this strategic partnership and provide even more ways for developers to quickly and effectively create and enhance applications with generative AI, including access to leading models through Vertex AI and automated data pipelines with BigQuery.”

 Partnered since 2018, MongoDB and Google Cloud have helped thousands of joint customers—including Keller Williams, Powerledger, and Ulta—adopt cloud-native data strategies to modernise how they run their organisations and serve end users. The expanded collaboration between MongoDB and Google Cloud now allows customers to:
● Seamlessly isolate and scale generative AI applications for high performance and efficiency: MongoDB Atlas Search Nodes—now generally available on Google Cloud—provide dedicated infrastructure for generative AI and relevance-based search workloads that use MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and MongoDB Atlas Search. MongoDB Atlas Search Nodes are independent of core operational database nodes and allow customers to isolate workloads, optimise costs, and reduce query times by up to 60 percent. For example, a financial services company running a high-traffic application during tax season can use dedicated infrastructure with Atlas Search Nodes to optimise performance independent of their database by isolating and scaling the generative AI portion of the workload. With this capability, the company could scale a knowledge retrieval workload that uses MongoDB Atlas Vector Search for AI-powered agents that autonomously take action on behalf of end users—without having to resize their entire database. To get started, visit mongodb.com/atlas/search.
● Streamline building generative AI applications with leading foundation models: MongoDB Atlas Vector Search has provided an integration with Vertex AI since last year to give developers more choice of managed foundation models to build generative AI applications. Now, with a deepened integration, developers can use a dedicated Vertex AI extension to make it even easier to work with generative AI models such as large language models (LLMs)—from Anthropic, Google Cloud, Meta, Mistral, and more—without having to transform data or manage data pipelines between MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud. This allows developers to more easily augment LLMs with an organisation’s real-time operational data to build applications that provide context-aware and highly personalised end-user experiences that are more accurate, up to date, and trustworthy—all with less complexity. Developers can also use the new extension to input natural language in the Vertex AI console to automatically generate queries for manipulating data and performing database operations (e.g., create, read, update, delete) on data stored in MongoDB Atlas for a more seamless experience.
● Enhance analytical workloads with automated pipelines for operational data: BigQuery is a serverless, scalable, and cost-effective enterprise data warehouse that works across clouds for analytics, business intelligence (BI), and machine learning workloads. Customers currently use bi-directional sync between BigQuery and MongoDB Atlas to enhance their analytical workloads with real-time operational data or to easily provide end-user applications access to historical enterprise data. With a new integration for Spark stored procedures with BigQuery, customers can better automate, optimise, and reuse data processing workflows between BigQuery and MongoDB Atlas for analytics, BI, and end-user applications. For example, customers can automate pipelines that combine and transform real-time operational data stored in MongoDB Atlas with analytical data in BigQuery and send it to Vertex AI to create new types of end-user application experiences.

● Enrich data from the factory floor with real-time application data to optimise manufacturing and supply chain operations: Tens of thousands of organisations rely on MongoDB Atlas to securely store, process, and manage real-time application data of diverse types with high performance and scale. Manufacturers today want to modernise their operations by combining data from many sources like factory equipment sensors, end-user applications, and enterprise resource planning systems to automate decision- making and run more efficiently. However, many organisations are unable to transform their operations because they still rely on legacy technologies that are difficult to replace and cost-prohibitive to modernise. With a new technical integration between MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud Manufacturing Data Engine, manufacturers can now more easily combine and transform data from across their organisations to automate processes and optimise operations with modern, real-time applications.
● Easily build and deploy applications that provide modern shopping experiences with composable commerce capabilities: Retail organisations are at the forefront of inventing new customer experiences with personalisation and automation. However, building applications that support these types of experiences at scale can be cumbersome and complex. To address these challenges, MongoDB is joining Google Cloud’s Industry Value Network (IVN) partner program, an initiative that streamlines the development of differentiated end-to-end solutions across industries through collaboration with system integrator partners to accelerate innovation. Beginning with a new solution for retailers, customers can now take advantage of MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud using the Integrated Commerce Network from Kin + Carta, a digital transformation consultancy, to deploy a modern commerce architecture to meet their unique business needs and provide customers with highly engaging shopping experiences.
● Run highly sensitive workloads in a tightly controlled and secured environment: Governments, public sector organisations, and enterprises in regulated industries often struggle to modernise their operations because of the highly sensitive nature of their data. As a result, these organisations face limited choices when running workloads. With MongoDB EA on GDC, organisations can now build, deploy, and scale applications in an air-gapped environment without needing to connect to Google Cloud or the public internet. MongoDB is among the first software providers to offer a validated solution for the new Google Cloud Ready—Distributed Cloud program, a marketplace that provides tailored integrations to support use cases for customers with highly sensitive workloads. GDC enables governments, public sector organisations, and regulated enterprises to address strict data residency and security requirements, and combined with MongoDB

EA, these organisations can now modernise all of their operations with the flexibility needed to securely deploy innovative applications and features while protecting sensitive data.

 MongoDB and Google Cloud joint customers and partners welcome expanded partnership Founded in 2009, Rent the Runway is disrupting the trillion-dollar fashion industry and changing the way women get dressed through the Closet in the Cloud, the world’s first and largest shared designer closet. “MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud is fantastic because it provides the whole set of infrastructure, which we don’t have to take care of, so we can focus on our solutions and innovations,” said Mike Liberant, Senior Director of Software Engineering at Rent the Runway. “For example, MongoDB Atlas enables us to process our garments more quickly and accurately without human error, which ultimately means our customers get a better, faster service to rent more and spend less. MongoDB and Google Cloud have been great partners, providing the services and tools where we require them.”

 Kin + Carta, a global digital transformation consultancy, helps companies modernise their business to better address the evolving needs of their customers. “Through the Integrated Commerce Network, we’re showcasing the best-in-breed software partners who together make building an end-to-end commerce solution much easier,” said Tara Catalano, National Google Cloud Alliance Lead at Kin + Carta. “MongoDB’s connectors and integrations with both BigQuery and Vertex AI make it a compelling choice for customers who want flexibility and optionality in building the best composable solution for their needs, as well as positioning them well to seize the opportunity with generative AI.”

NetApp Wins Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year Award for Infrastructure – Storage

NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, announced it has received the 2024 Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year Award in the Infrastructure – Storage category for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. For the second year in a row, NetApp is recognized for its achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem, helping joint customers deploy solutions that enable them to easily migrate, deploy, and manage data and workloads in Google Cloud without rearchitecting applications.

“Google Cloud’s Partner Awards celebrate the transformative impact and value that partners have delivered for customers,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, Corporate Vice President, Global Ecosystem and Channels at Google Cloud. “We’re proud to announce NetApp as a 2024 Google Cloud Partner Award winner and recognize their achievements enabling customer success from the past year.”

The Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year Award for Infrastructure – Storage highlights how NetApp’s industry-leading, enterprise-grade storage technologies, including Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, help customers navigate the cloud landscape with simplified data management, unparalleled performance, and reliable data protection. Based on NetApp® ONTAP®, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes lets users securely automate and scale demanding workloads, such as AI, databases, and cloud-native applications, with just a few clicks, optimizing cloud costs without overprovisioning.

“Together with Google Cloud, NetApp continues to build on its industry-leading storage portfolio, with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, which delivers seamless integration as a jointly developed Google service that supports critical use cases from migrating workloads to Google Cloud platform to running cloud-native applications and powering transformations like AI,” said Eric Han, Vice President, Product Management, Cloud at NetApp. “The fact that we’re a Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for the second consecutive year in the Storage category underscores the confidence Google Cloud has in NetApp as a partner equally committed to providing customers with an intelligent data infrastructure that helps them move quickly and adapt in our ever-changing technology and threat landscape.”

Launched in August 2023 as a managed storage service, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes was enhanced in October 2023 with a Standard service layer, delivering a significant reduction in cost/GB, while still delivering the same multi-protocol file services with fully integrated data protection. This service joins the complete NetApp storage and data services portfolio found in Google Cloud which spans cyber resilience, data protection, and capacity management. It enables enterprise customers to seamlessly extend the most demanding workloads into Google Cloud with the types of services that have been hallmarks of datacenter technologies for years.

Additional Resources

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes
NetApp And Google Cloud Introduce Managed Storage Service to Revolutionize Enterprise Workloads in the Cloud
NetApp Extends Its Storage Leadership and Innovation at Insight 2023 with the Only Unified Data Storage Across On-Premises and Public Cloud
Cloud Volumes ONTAP

HCLTech launches strategic initiative with Google Cloud to scale Gemini to global enterprises

NOIDA, India, April 3, 2024—HCLTech, a leading global technology, today announced an expanded alliance with Google Cloud to create industry solutions and drive business value with Gemini, its multimodal large language AI model. HCLTech will enable 25,000 engineers on Google Cloud’s latest GenAI technology to better support clients at every stage of their AI projects, including the development of new use cases and capabilities for HCLTech platforms and product offerings, and initially focusing on bringing gen AI capabilities to clients in manufacturing, healthcare, and telecom.

HCLTech recently launched HCLTech AI Force, a pre-built GenAI platform that optimizes engineering lifecycle processes from planning through development, testing and maintenance. HCLTech will now enhance the HCLTech AI Force platform with Gemini’s advanced code completion and summarization capabilities, which will allow engineers to generate code, remediate issues and accelerate the delivery time and quality of software projects for clients.

HCLTech will also use Gemini models to strengthen and expand the portfolio of industry solutions built out of its dedicated Cloud Native Labs and AI Labs, which focus on accelerating client innovation and are staffed by leading AI experts and engineers. Both labs will enable clients to better scope, manage and refine gen AI projects on Google Cloud’s infrastructure.

“HCLTech and Google Cloud have a long-standing strategic partnership. This collaboration will bring to market HCLTech’s innovative GenAI solutions using Google’s most capable and scalable Gemini models. We believe this helps us to bring even more value to global enterprises through HCLTech’s differentiated portfolio,” said C Vijayakumar, CEO & Managing Director, HCLTech.

“Gemini for Google Cloud can enhance many areas of enterprise work, such as helping developers build applications more quickly and improving how financial analysts report on their businesses,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud. “By enabling 25,000 engineers on Google Cloud’s latest generative AI technology, HCLTech can provide the expertise and technical skills that clients need to successfully deploy and manage gen AI projects at scale.”