Google looks to former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to move the cloud industry together – TechCrunch

Diane Greene announced Friday that she went down after three years driving Google's sky industry. She will continue to the first year to help her successor, Thomas Kurian in transition. He left Oracle in late September after more than 20 years with the company, and is committed to making Google's clouds more business friendly, a goal that has strangely avoided the company.

Greene was boarded in 201[ads1]5 to include some orders and business knowledge for the company's cloud industry. While she helped move them along that path, and grew the cloud industry, it simply has not been enough. There have been rumors for several months that Greene's time came to an end.

So the torch is sent to Kurian, a man who spent over two decades on a company that could be the opposite of Google. He ran a product on Oracle, a traditional enterprise software. Oracle himself has struggled to make the transition to a shooting company, but Bloomberg reported in September that one of the reasons Kurian took off at that time was a disagreement with chairman Larry Ellison over the shadow strategy. According to the report, Kurian would make Oracle software available on public clouds such as AWS and Azure (and Google Cloud). Ellison apparently did not agree and a couple of weeks later Kurian announced he continued.

Although Kurian's background does not seem to be perfectly adapted to Google, it's important to keep in mind that his thinking evolved. He was also responsible for thousands of products and helped master Oracle's move to the sky. He has experience in maintaining products that companies have desired, and maybe that's the kind of knowledge Google sought after in his next cloud leader.

Ray Wang, founder and principal analyst at Constellation Research, said that Google should still learn to support the company and he believes Kurian is the right person to help the company get there. "Kurian knows what is required to get a push company to work for corporate customers," Wang said.

If he is right, it may be that a business enterprise in Old School is just what Google requires to change its Cloud division into a company-friendly power plant. Greene has always experienced that there were still early days for the cloud, and Google had plenty of time to capture some of the untapped market, a point she repeated in the blog post on Friday. "The room is early and there is a huge opportunity for it," she wrote.

She may be right, but market positions seem to be curing. AWS, which was first marketed, has a huge market share of over 30 percent of most accounts. Microsoft is the only company with market power at the moment to give them a run for their money and the only other company with twofold market share. In fact, Amazon has a larger market share than the next four companies, combined, according to data from Synergy Research.

While Google is always mentioned in the Big 3 Cloud companies with AWS and Microsoft, with around $ 4 billion revenue a year, it's a long way to go to reach the level of these other companies . Despite Grees's claim, time can run out to make a run. Perhaps Kurian is the person who drives the company to pick up some of the untapped market, as businesses move more workload to the cloud. At this point, Google is counting on him to do just that.