Google cloud strategy focuses on analyzing big data
June 1, 2015
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Sharon Gaudin.
Google may not have caught up to Amazon in the cloud market, but that’s OK, according to a Google executive. The company is heading in a slightly different direction with cloud computing that involves helping customers analyze their data. "It’s not about catching up to [Amazon]," said Brian Stevens, vice president of cloud platform at Google.
"It’s not just about lifting and shifting servers and such. It’s not about doing exactly the same thing you’ve been doing. It’s about doing things in a new cloud way." That could change the way companies do business. It also could help Google become a cloud powerhouse. Stevens, who spoke with Computerworld during Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, said he wants the company’s cloud offering to do more than simply enable enterprises to stop buying their own servers…
It also should be about more than having someone else worry about storing data and maintaining hardware…
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