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  "name": "Google Distributed Cloud",
  "description": "Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) is a portfolio of hardware and software solutions that extends Google Cloud's infrastructure and services to the edge and into customer data centers. It provides a consistent management layer for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, specifically addressing requirements for data sovereignty, low latency, and local processing. The portfolio includes GDC Hosted for air-gapped deployments and GDC Edge for high-performance processing near data sources.",
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  "baiScore": 88,
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  "category": "Cloud Computing",
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    },
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  "updatedAt": "2026-04-09T23:25:12.102+00:00",
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    "website": "https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud",
    "founded": "2021",
    "headquarters": "Mountain View, California, USA",
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    "key_differentiator": "Provides a fully managed, air-gapped cloud experience that allows restricted organizations to run Google services without any connection to the public internet.",
    "target_markets": "Government, Defense, Financial Services, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Manufacturing",
    "employee_count": "Not publicly available",
    "funding_stage": "Not publicly available",
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      "AWS Outposts: Extending standard AWS cloud services to on-premises locations using dedicated hardware.",
      "Azure Stack Hub / Edge: Running Azure services on-premises to meet data residency or latency requirements."
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