By By David Ramel04/24/2026
Publication Date: 2026-04-24 00:00:00
Google Cloud Next ’26: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Leads AI-Centric News
Google Cloud Next ’26, ending today, was largely framed around what Google calls the agentic enterprise, but for virtualization, cloud infrastructure and operations teams, the most relevant announcements centered on the systems needed to run, connect, secure and govern those agents at scale.
The event’s infrastructure news included a new enterprise agent platform, two eighth-generation Tensor Processing Unit chips, new AI networking fabric, cross-cloud compute and connectivity updates, and an Agentic Data Cloud architecture. Google said the announcements are aimed at production agent deployments that require compute, networking, storage, data access, security controls and operational visibility across Google Cloud, other clouds, on-premises systems and distributed environments.
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Replaces Standalone Vertex AI Roadmap
One of the central announcements was Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, which Google described as a comprehensive platform to build, scale, govern and optimize agents. Google said the platform is the evolution of Vertex AI and that future Vertex AI services and roadmap evolutions will be delivered through Agent Platform rather than as a standalone service.
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