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Senior Google Cloud Exec Departs After Reorg

By Kevin McLaughlin · Feb 1, 2017 4:02pm PST · 1 comment
Carl Schachter, a Google vice president who was one of the public faces of its cloud computing business under Diane Greene, is leaving the company, The Information has learned. The move came as a surprise to many at the fast-growing Google unit, as Mr. Schachter had been promoted in 2015 and received additional responsibilities late last year.... Carl Schachter, a Google vice president who was one of the public faces of its cloud computing...
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Google Reorganizing Cloud Sales Team

By Kevin McLaughlin · Nov 28, 2016 7:02am PST · 2 comments
Google is reorganizing its Google Cloud division to combine its sales teams for Google Apps—now called G Suite—and its cloud hosting services, said two people with knowledge of the move. Google Cloud chief Diane Greene is hoping that unifying the structure will reduce costs and help the company close big deals faster to better... Google is reorganizing its Google Cloud division to combine its sales teams for Google...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman. Photo by Bloomberg.
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Private Equity Ponders Hewlett Packard Enterprise Buyout

By Kevin McLaughlin · Jul 29, 2016 10:07am PDT
Several private equity firms including KKR, Apollo Global Management and Carlyle Group are sniffing around Hewlett Packard Enterprise, contemplating a buyout of the firm, said a person who has had talks with representatives of the firms. Such a deal would be worth more than $40 billion.A buyout would allow HPE, currently the world’s... Several private equity firms including KKR, Apollo Global Management and Carlyle Group are...
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Pro Weekly: AI Pushes Cloud Vendors to New Heights

By Akash Pasricha · Nov 10, 2023 8:00am PST
Running a big cloud-hosting service is a good business. Thanks to artificial intelligence, it’s getting even better. This week, we made two big additions to our Cloud Database: OpenAI and Anthropic. OpenAI is spending more than $400 million per year on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service, according to The Information’s reporting. In... Running a big cloud-hosting service is a good business. Thanks to artificial intelligence, it’s...
Google Senior Vice President for Enterprise, Diane Greene. Photo by AP.
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Google’s Secret Weapon in Database Wars

By Steve Nellis and Amir Efrati · Jun 13, 2016 7:01am PDT · 1 comment
Looking for ways to better compete with Amazon Web Services, engineers at Google Cloud Platform have tested how to turn an internal database technology called Spanner into a product it can sell to developers, according to two people briefed on the effort. Spanner is now used to power many Google consumer products.The tests are part of a broader... Looking for ways to better compete with Amazon Web Services, engineers at Google Cloud Platform...