Category Archives: Thomas Kurian

Google Cloud launches a new support option for mission critical workloads

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Google Cloud today announced the launch of a new support option for its Premium Support customers that run mission-critical services on its platform. The new service, imaginatively dubbed Mission Critical Services (MCS), brings Google’s own experience with Site Reliability Engineering to its customers. This is not Google completely taking over the management of these services, […] Continue reading Google Cloud launches a new support option for mission critical workloads→

Canalys: Google is top cloud infrastructure provider for online retailers

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While Google Cloud Platform has shown some momentum in the last year, it remains a distant third behind Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud infrastructure market. But Google got some good news from Canalys today when the firm reported that GCP is the number one cloud platform provider for retailers. Canalys didn’t provide specific numbers, […] Continue reading Canalys: Google is top cloud infrastructure provider for online retailers→

Thomas Kurian on his first year as Google Cloud CEO

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“Yes.” That was Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s simple answer when I asked if he thought he’d achieved what he set out to do in his first year. A year ago, he took the helm of Google’s cloud operations — which includes G Suite — and set about giving the organization a sharpened focus by […] Continue reading Thomas Kurian on his first year as Google Cloud CEO→

Google closes $2.6B Looker acquisition

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When Google announced that it was acquiring data analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion, it was a big deal on a couple of levels. It was a lot of money and it represented the first large deal under the leadership of Thomas Kurian. Today, the company announced that deal has officially closed and Looker is […] Continue reading Google closes $2.6B Looker acquisition→

Google Cloud makes strides but still has a long way to go

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In earnings reported this week, Alphabet announced that Google Cloud generated a robust $2.61 billion for the quarter, a number that includes revenue from both Google Cloud Platform and G Suite. That puts the division on a nice little run rate of $10.44 billion. It feels like a lot until you consider that Microsoft had a […] Continue reading Google Cloud makes strides but still has a long way to go→

Google picks up Microsoft veteran, Javier Soltero, to head G Suite

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Google has hired Microsoft’s former Cortana and Outlook VP, Javier Soltero, to head up its productivity and collaboration bundle, G Suite — which includes consumer and business tools such as Gmail, Hangouts, Drive, Google Docs and Sheets. He tweeted the news yesterday, writing: “The opportunity to work with this team on products that have such […] Continue reading Google picks up Microsoft veteran, Javier Soltero, to head G Suite→

Google continues to preach multi-cloud approach with Looker acquisition

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When Google announced it was buying Looker yesterday morning for $2.6 billion, you couldn’t blame some of the company’s 1,600 customers if they worried a bit if Looker would continue its multi-cloud approach. But Google Cloud chief Thomas Kurian made clear the company will continue to support an open approach to its latest purchase when […] Continue reading Google continues to preach multi-cloud approach with Looker acquisition→

Google to acquire analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion

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Google made a big splash this morning when it announced it’s going to acquire Looker, a hot analytics startup that’s raised over $280 million. It’s paying $2.6 billion for the privilege and adding the company to Google Cloud. Thomas Kurian, the man who was handed the reigns to Google Cloud at the end of last […] Continue reading Google to acquire analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion→

Google Cloud brings on 27-year SAP veteran as it doubles down on enterprise adoption

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Thomas Kurian, the newly-minted CEO of Google Cloud, used the company’s Cloud Next conference last week to lay out his vision for the future of Google’s cloud computing platform. That vision involves, in part, a hiring spree to give businesses that want to work with Google more people to talk to and get help from. […] Continue reading Google Cloud brings on 27-year SAP veteran as it doubles down on enterprise adoption→

Google Cloud makes some strong moves to differentiate itself from AWS and Microsoft

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Google Cloud held its annual customer conference, Google Cloud Next, this week in San Francisco. It had a couple of purposes. For starters it could introduce customers to new CEO Thomas Kurian for the first time since his hiring at the end of last year. And secondly, and perhaps more importantly, it could demonstrate that […] Continue reading Google Cloud makes some strong moves to differentiate itself from AWS and Microsoft→