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Google Cloud’s new CEO on gaining customers, startups, supporting open source and more

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After Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud’s recently minted CEO, joined the company, he took hundreds of meetings to learn what the company’s prospective and current customers were looking for. The overarching theme of those conversations was always similar, he told me during an interview at Google’s Cloud Next conference: “Love the technology — amazed at it. […] Continue reading Google Cloud’s new CEO on gaining customers, startups, supporting open source and more→

Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market share needle

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When it comes to the cloud market, there are few known knowns. For instance, we know that AWS is the market leader with around 32 percent of market share. We know Microsoft is far back in second place with around 14 percent, the only other company in double digits. We also know that IBM and […] Continue reading Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market share needle→

Google looks to former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to move cloud business along

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Diane Greene announced on Friday that she was stepping down after three years running Google’s cloud business. She will stay on until the first of the year to help her successor, Thomas Kurian in the transition. He left Oracle at the end of September after more than 20 years with the company, and is charged with making Google’s […] Continue reading Google looks to former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to move cloud business along→

Former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to replace Diane Greene as head of Google Cloud

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Diane Greene announced in a blog post today that she would be stepping down as CEO of Google Cloud and will be helping transition former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian to take over early next year. Greene took over the position almost exactly three years ago when Google bought Bebop, the startup she was running. The […] Continue reading Former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to replace Diane Greene as head of Google Cloud→