Google Cloud Platform VP Brian Stevens

Google is shifting its focus from hosting VMs and lowering capital expenditure to allowing developers to build cloud apps at scale, according to Google Cloud Platform VP Brian Stevens. Part of Google’s value proposition to developers is its open source platform, which it intends to embrace going forward. Stevens, a former Red Hat, Inc. exec, is accustomed to the open source mindset.

The two top requirements for Google services, said Stevens, are reliability and user experience. Reliability is the bedrock of the company, he commented, saying that most customers know that if Google Search is down, much of the world is down. When it comes to the user interface, Stevens said that Google’s services “are not where they need to be” but that usability is a top priority for the tech giant. Google aims to make its products more understandable and move toward “a culture change on the infrastructure side.”

Containerization is also a point of primary focus for Google, a shift with the same magnitude as Linux, X86, and Cloud. Google sees containers as its ticket to the enterprise. Containerization, Stevens explained, is a disruption that Google is taking advantage of in order to deliver lightweight applications that are portable. Google is banking that containers will endear Google to enterprise developers because the company changes the process from a testability, reliability perspective and make cloud applications easier to build within the enterprise.

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