With bets on Looker and BigQuery Google bolsters cloud data analytics push
Less than two years after taking the helm at Google Cloud, Chief Executive Thomas Kurian has made his playbook for competing with Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Azure clear: Build for a multicloud future, democratize analytics and press the advantage offered by BigQuery. That last strategy has proved to be a major factor in Google [] The post With bets on Looker and BigQuery, Google bolste
rs cloud data analytics push appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Author: Mark Albertson
Date: 2020-11-07
URL: https://siliconangle.com/2020/11/07/bets-looker-bigquery-google-bolsters-cloud-data-analytics-push/
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