Google’s Top Cloud Guy, Urs Hozle, Throws Down The Gauntlet With Amazon, Microsoft

Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Julie Bort.

During Google I/O, the company’s annual developers conference, the company announced a bunch of new features for its cloud computing services. Google has been in a three-way price-and-feature war with Amazon and Microsoft over the cloud. Every time one of them adds features and lowers prices, the others follow suit.

Google always mentions its flagship cloud customer, Snapchat, and this time was no exception. But this time around, Google’s top cloud guy, Urs Hozle, also name-dropped several other big names that chose Google over Amazon, including hot anonymous app Secret; the company that does instant voting for The Rising Star TV show, Screens; and online tech school Khan Academy…

Most of the new features it introduced were pretty geeky – this is a developer’s conference, after all. But one of them really stood out: "Google Cloud Dataflow." This is a "big data" service, meaning it can crunch through massive volumes of information really fast…

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