Google takes ‘solutions’ route to push cloud business

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Editor's note: In the years since Google entered the cloud computing market, it’s remained a distant third behind Amazon Web Services, or AWS, and Microsoft’s Azure. However, while the world battled the pandemic, Google kicked off 2020 with a new spring in its step, especially in India. In 2019, Google’s parent Alphabet Inc. brought in Oracle Corp. executive Thomas Kurian as CEO of the cloud division. In the third edition of Oversize, I wrote about how Kurian, who spent more than two decades at Oracle, had brought about a change in the company’s culture to align it with the requirements of the enterprise businesses. The product journey of the Google Cloud Platform now reflects that transition. At the centre of his new strategy was the Asia-Pacific region, including India, where the company hired a slew of top executives. You know, all those people who know how to build for and sell to enterprises. In March 2020, the company announced the appointment of industry veteran Karan Bajwa as MD of Google Cloud in India. A senior leader with over three decades’ leadership experience, …