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Why Google Cloud Needs to Get Less Googley

December 12, 2019

Via: Fortune
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Each of the three biggest online services, or cloud companies–Amazon, Microsoft, and Google–has its own founding story. Amazon Web Services grew out of the digital software programs the retailer built for itself. Microsoft realized its bigger customers would pay for the added security its Azure offering provided. As for Google Cloud, the latecomer, it would offer the best of Google’s internally developed whizbang technology to all takers.

Google’s problem, until now, was that it was neither fish (scrappy like AWS) nor fowl (bullet-proof and sold by a wing-tipped salesforce like Microsoft). Thomas Kurian, the Oracle executive hired to run Google Cloud earlier this year, is out to change that.

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