Executives in whimsical footwear and oversized gadgets of balls and tubes were side-by-side with the latest open source, AI, IoT and hybrid cloud technology at Google's annual cloud conference.

Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading

July 27, 2018

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Cloud Next -- Google's annual cloud conference sprawled over the Moscone Convention Center much in the way Google's cloud sprawls over multiple vertical industries.

Google used the conference to highlight its offerings in open source, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and hybrid cloud. Google Cloud Next also had its weird side, with basketball tournaments, oversized gadgets of balls and tubes, and executives in whimsical footwear.

Here's some of what we saw. And to read about what we learned, follow the links to the articles below the photo.

Figure 1: This tube-and-ball mechanism demonstrates the risks of mixing public and confidential data. Josh Armour, whose name is well suited for his position as a Google program manager for security, operates the contraption. This tube-and-ball mechanism demonstrates the risks of mixing public and confidential data. Josh Armour, whose name is well suited for his position as a Google program manager for security, operates the contraption.

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About the Author(s)

Mitch Wagner

Executive Editor, Light Reading

San Diego-based Mitch Wagner is many things. As well as being "our guy" on the West Coast (of the US, not Scotland, or anywhere else with indifferent meteorological conditions), he's a husband (to his wife), dissatisfied Democrat, American (so he could be President some day), nonobservant Jew, and science fiction fan. Not necessarily in that order.

He's also one half of a special duo, along with Minnie, who is the co-habitor of the West Coast Bureau and Light Reading's primary chewer of sticks, though she is not the only one on the team who regularly munches on bark.

Wagner, whose previous positions include Editor-in-Chief at Internet Evolution and Executive Editor at InformationWeek, will be responsible for tracking and reporting on developments in Silicon Valley and other US West Coast hotspots of communications technology innovation.

Beats: Software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), IP networking, and colored foods (such as 'green rice').

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