Posts tagged with "Google Cloud"

Google introduced the Gemini agent on 8 October 2026: a universal work agent whose coworker agents get their own @agents.company.com mailbox, calendar and Drive, in private preview with no price. We set it against Microsoft Entra Agent ID and Agent 365, both GA since spring at $15 per user per month, compare the two identity models, run the cost math for a 1,000-user Swedish M365 shop, and list the EU residency and offboarding questions to ask before a pilot.

Google's I/O 2026 enterprise announcements, led by the Managed Agents API, Gemini Spark and Gemini 3.5 Flash, take direct aim at Azure AI Foundry Agent Service and the Copilot ecosystem, down to launch connectors for SharePoint and OneDrive. For Azure-first Swedish and EU teams the decision rests on four questions: where the data lives, whether the cost claim survives real traces, whether audit obligations can be met, and what a second platform costs.