About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of AI on Google Cloud and the evolving requirements for enterprise architecture.

The agentic era is forcing a reset in enterprise architecture. Agents taking action go far beyond just analyzing data living in lakehouses. Agents acting on behalf of humans, continuously, at machine scale bring new architectural requirements to the enterprise. The so-called “modern data stack” as most organizations know it, has become a sort of “new legacy.” No longer can organizations rely on stitched-together systems, fragmented governance, batch pipelines, and historical security boundari...

Topics covered

• AI
• Google Cloud
• enterprise architecture
• data stack
• machine scale

Keywords

• agentic era
• modern data stack
• fragmented governance
• batch pipelines
• security boundaries

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Google Cloud

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