IDG Contributor Network: Google ups the cloud ante to go for gold

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Last week saw Google holding, for the second time, a conference dedicated to its cloud portfolio.

Roughly 12 months ago Google reorganized its products and combined its office productivity offering, GSuite, with its public cloud solution, Google Cloud Platform, to form one business unit under the management of famed enterprise IT leader, Diane Greene.

Since that time Greene has been working hard to build out enterprise muscle memory within Google, something that the company has never had before. She has been on a massive hiring spree, and the legion of executives presenting at last week's event with résumés including companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and VMware was telling.

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