In July, Alphabet Inc.’s earning reports revealed interesting signs that Google Cloud’s business could be accelerating. Still, despite the company’s status as the top search engine in the world, its cloud division ranked third behind Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.Could that be changing? That was the big question that theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, sought to answer while covering the Google Cloud Next event from August 29 to 31.The event brought no shortage of big announcements from the company

One of the themes to emerge at Google Cloud Next in San Francisco this week has been the importance of building an ecosystem to support the growing demands of generative AI.Google Cloud has been focused on creating partnerships that will advance its AI initiatives, as seen in its recent collaboration with Nvidia Corp. An open architecture will be especially important in this area, according to one Google LLC executive.“This is one of the most important areas when we think about the future of AI,” said Carrie Tharp (pictured), vice president of strategic industries for Google Cloud. “That’s been a big focus of ours, to make sure we have this open architecture, bringing in that ecosystem