300: The Next Chapter: How Google’s Next-Level Next Event Nexted All Our Next Expectations – and What’s Next Now That Next Is Past

300: The Next Chapter: How Google’s Next-Level Next Event Nexted All Our Next Expectations – and What’s Next Now That Next Is Past

Author: Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI News April 17, 2025 Duration: 1:20:18

Welcome to episode 300 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! According to the title, this week’s show is taking place inside of a Dr. Suess book, but don’t despair – we’re not going to make you eat green eggs and ham, but we WILL give you the low down on all things Vegas. Well, Google’s Next event which recently took place in Vegas anyway. Did you make any Next predictions? 

Titles we almost went with this week:

  • This is the CLOUDPOD Episode 300
  • Tonight we dine in the Cloud
  • The Next Chapter
  • Now in Preview: Episode 300

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Pre-Next

02:35 Google shakes up Gemini leadership, Google Labs head taking the reins 

  • There was a lot of Gemini news at Next – but we’ll get to all that. 
  • In this particular case, there’s an employee shakeup. Sissie Hsiao is stepping down from leading the Google team, and is being replaced by Josh Woodward, who is currently leading the Google Labs. 

04:35 Filestore instance replication now available

  • GCP says customers have been asking for help in meeting business and regulatory goals, and so they are releasing Filestore instance replication.
  • This new feature offers an efficient replication point objective (RPO) that can reach 30 minutes for data change rates of 100 MB/sec.

05:16 Multi-Cluster Orchestrator for cross-region Kubernetes workloads

  • The public preview of Multi-Cluster Orchestrator was recently announced.
  • This lets platform and application teams optimize resource utilization, enhance application resilience, and accelerate innovation in complex, multi-cluster environments. 
  • The need for effective multi-cluster management has become essential as organizations increasingly use Kubernetes to deploy and manage their applications; Challenges such as resource scarcity, ensuring high availability, and managing deployments across diverse environments create significant operational overhead.
  • Multi-Cluster Orchestrator addresses these challenges by providing a centralized orchestration layer that abstracts away the complexities of underlying Kubernetes infrastructure matching workloads with capacity across regions.

06:26 GKE at 65,000 nodes: Evaluating performance for simulated mixed AI workloads

  • Recently GKE announced it can now support up to 65,000 nodes (up from 15,000.) 
  • Saint Carrie be with your CFO. 

09:15 How we built th


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