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This week, TechCrunchs Frederic Lardinois and Ron Miller offered up their analysis on the major announcements that came out of Googles Cloud Next conference this past week, as well as their opinions on the outlook for the company going forward.Google Cloud announced a series of products, packages and services that it believes will improve the companys competitive position and differentiate itself from AWS and other peers.
Frederic and Ron discuss all of Googles most promising announcements, including its product for managing hybrid clouds, its new end-to-end AI platform, as well as the companys heightened effort to improve customer service, communication, and ease-of-use.They have all of these AI and machine learning technologies, they have serverless technologies, they have containerization technologies they have this whole range of technologies.But its very difficult for the average company to take these technologies and know what to do with them, or to have the staff and the expertise to be able to make good use of them.
So, the more they do things like this where they package them into products and make them much more accessible to the enterprise at large, the more successful thats likely going to be because people can see how they can use these.Google does have thousands of engineers, and they have very smart people, but not every company does, and thats the whole idea of the cloud.
The cloud is supposed to take this stuff, put it together in such a way that you dont have to be Google, or you dont have to be Facebook, you dont have to be Amazon, and you can take the same technology and put it to use in your companyImage via Bryce Durbin / TechCrunchFrederic and Ron dive deeper into how the new offerings may impact Googles market share in the cloud ecosystem and which verticals represent the best opportunity for Google to win.
The two also dig into the future of open source in cloud and how they see customer use cases for cloud infrastructure evolving.For access to the full transcription and the call audio, and for the opportunity to participate in future conference calls, become a member of Extra Crunch.Learn more and try it for free.