Google Cloud's planned acquisition of Alooma is designed to help the vendor increase its market share against industry leaders AWS and Microsoft Azure.
“We are now only accepting new customers that are migrating to Google Cloud Platform,” a Google Cloud spokeswoman said. “We are not accepting new AWS or Microsoft customers, but still providing the service for existing customers.”
‘Google has really gotten aggressive in winning big customers and not allowing the competitors – Amazon and Microsoft – to beat them out on pricing and technical features,’ says one Google Cloud partner.
In his first speaking engagement as Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian promises to aggressively grow the internet giant's cloud sales division with the help of the channel.
The groundbreaking cloud service will see its first-ever price increase on April 2. But Google partners tell CRN that customers are much more concerned about the benefits of continued innovation and the value the productivity suite delivers to their organizations.
Outgoing cloud chief Diane Greene built a ‘robust enterprise organization,’ Google's Sundar Pichai tells investors in a Q4 earnings call. ‘This was not the case just three years ago.’
The new funding round, which saw Western Digital join in as a strategic investor, brings total funding in the intelligent data management for unstructured data environments company to $42 million.
John Honeycutt previously was CTO at the parent of Discovery Channel, and brings to the newly created position in Mountain View a wealth of entertainment industry experience
The epic legal battle over whether application programming interfaces can be copyrighted is going into its ninth year. Both sides argue there are massive industry repercussions at stake.