CNBC April 29, 2023
Key Points
– Google said this week that its cloud unit finally turned profitable in the first quarter.
– Since ex-Oracle exec Thomas Kurian took over the business in 2019, the company has concentrated on winning enterprise clients.
– Kurian told CNBC that Google’s cloud business focused on making its data center operations more efficient while also investing in customer success.
When Google hired Oracle’s Thomas Kurian four years ago to run its cloud business, the internet search company had a clear reason for putting its trust in a career enterprise software executive.
Google was a consumer company. Despite years spent trying to compete with Amazon and Microsoft in selling cloud-based storage, computing and other services to big corporations, it...
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