Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's focus on enterprise partnerships and sales could drive a culture clash, but it's what Google needs.
that Google Cloud's sales team was one-tenth to one-fifteenth the size of those at AWS and Microsoft Azure. He plans to get that up to about half the size in the not-so-distant future.
"When tech companies run so hard defining the next wave of innovation, sometimes you leave out the basics," Lopez said."[Enterprises] want to buy something simply. They want to have the right partner and support structure...These are aren't sexy things, but if you don't do this right, your innovation almost doesn't matter."
— which will enable users to manage not only their Google Cloud infrastructure, but also their own data centers, and the rival Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services clouds.resistance from co-founder at CTO Larry Ellison"That shows how the nature of cloud is changing," Bartoletti said."Cloud used to be a place to get cheaper servers and storage. It's not that anymore.
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