Overall a good event but was crowded with some 2000 people at venue, making conversation and moving around the event hall, real hard.
As expected, every stream emphasised on artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning infusion in Google products such as G Suite and various other cloud offerings. Server-less computing or Google Cloud Function range of services for building application back ends (IOT, api gateways, and etc), real time data processing, virtual assistants, chat bots, image analysis and text analysis for different use cases was another area of highlight.
Tools, documentation and support for developer community was shared with various strategies to cut development work, transition to micro-services architecture, adopt containerisation and get solutions to market a lot quickly.
There seem to be quite an uptake and interest from enterprise customers too, with many re-platforming traditional applications or deploying new applications on GCP. Local CSP, Celcom Axiata seem to have moved their Drupal based portal, e-commerce system Magento, analytics, and a few other business applications onto GCP. AirAsia and Maxis, each presented a successful use case as well.
Startups as suspected, are starting their business journey by default on public clouds such as GCP and almost all that presented are early stage players. Though, I was really hoping for a late stage startup story, to learn more on how growing organisations are transitioning and juggle between public cloud and in-house IT footprint.
There were no mention of interoperability or portability of solutions in any track, though RedHat did have a slot to talk about their cloud management and application packaging solution including Ansible Tower.
As for me personally, I didn't discover anything particularly new, but then again, I am part of at least 12 different global discussion groups on FB that keeps me on track with the tech world.
However, understanding how Malaysian customers are seeing success with GCP made it worthwhile. Though, customers seem to be sticking to proven use cases alone and I did not come across anyone innovating a disruptive new service just yet. Many spoke about CapEX, risk reduction, business relationship and time to market as key drivers and values.
None of the customers made any reference of internal cloud teams responsible for drawing their cloud strategies and risk management measures or exit plans to protect against vendor lock in, cost spiral or security concerns. Perhaps we will see those topics to appear in the coming years as adoption matures and customers start to ramp up internal strategies.
Lastly, there were 3 women speakers that I noticed - one from Google and the rest from customer organisation. Among attendees too, the number of women can be counted.
None of the tracks I attended accommodated Q&A somehow (data insight track) which was a big letdown. Perhaps, this was done to keep to the schedule.
As expected, every stream emphasised on artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning infusion in Google products such as G Suite and various other cloud offerings. Server-less computing or Google Cloud Function range of services for building application back ends (IOT, api gateways, and etc), real time data processing, virtual assistants, chat bots, image analysis and text analysis for different use cases was another area of highlight.
Tools, documentation and support for developer community was shared with various strategies to cut development work, transition to micro-services architecture, adopt containerisation and get solutions to market a lot quickly.
There seem to be quite an uptake and interest from enterprise customers too, with many re-platforming traditional applications or deploying new applications on GCP. Local CSP, Celcom Axiata seem to have moved their Drupal based portal, e-commerce system Magento, analytics, and a few other business applications onto GCP. AirAsia and Maxis, each presented a successful use case as well.
Startups as suspected, are starting their business journey by default on public clouds such as GCP and almost all that presented are early stage players. Though, I was really hoping for a late stage startup story, to learn more on how growing organisations are transitioning and juggle between public cloud and in-house IT footprint.
There were no mention of interoperability or portability of solutions in any track, though RedHat did have a slot to talk about their cloud management and application packaging solution including Ansible Tower.
As for me personally, I didn't discover anything particularly new, but then again, I am part of at least 12 different global discussion groups on FB that keeps me on track with the tech world.
However, understanding how Malaysian customers are seeing success with GCP made it worthwhile. Though, customers seem to be sticking to proven use cases alone and I did not come across anyone innovating a disruptive new service just yet. Many spoke about CapEX, risk reduction, business relationship and time to market as key drivers and values.
None of the customers made any reference of internal cloud teams responsible for drawing their cloud strategies and risk management measures or exit plans to protect against vendor lock in, cost spiral or security concerns. Perhaps we will see those topics to appear in the coming years as adoption matures and customers start to ramp up internal strategies.
Lastly, there were 3 women speakers that I noticed - one from Google and the rest from customer organisation. Among attendees too, the number of women can be counted.
None of the tracks I attended accommodated Q&A somehow (data insight track) which was a big letdown. Perhaps, this was done to keep to the schedule.
