India Will Be Key In Cloud Services Strategy, Says Google

California: Google Cloud Chief Diane Greene has said that India will play a key role in Google’s strategy as it looks to take on Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure in the global enterprise cloud services space.

Greene said: “India is a pretty exciting place because there are so many companies growing so quickly over there and the fact that these companies do not have (legacy systems) is pretty exciting. And they can just start in the cloud. You have seen Sundar (Pichai) take a deep interest in India and so, Google overall is very interested in India.” She further added that there is a pool of talented manpower as well and, overall, “it’s vibrant and it’s important to be there (in India).”

At the Google Cloud Products (GCP) Next 2016 conference, Indian-American business executive Sundar Pichai, who serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Google, said: “As a primary thing, we have sealed up the infrastructure, and now we are opening it up so that every business across the world can use it”. He cited the example of an animation studio in Mumbai which is using the services to produce a movie, underlying the importance of emerging markets like India.

Amazon, Microsoft and IBM have a sizable presence in the cloud infrastructure market, capturing billions of dollars that businesses are spending to outsource their computing and storage needs.

Google has announced two new locations in Oregon, US and Tokyo, Japan and both will get operational later this year.