Google LLC is newer to the commercialization of its enterprise cloud support tools than some rivals, but the company is quickly carving out a differentiated strategy focused on helping software developers customize their use of Google Cloud.

“[We] have this underlying, incredibly advanced infrastructure,” said Diane Greene (pictured), chief executive officer of Google Cloud. “[We’re] taking people somewhere they can take advantage of AI, where they can be more secure than anywhere else, and [we] have the engineering to help them really exploit it and listen to customers about where they want to go.”

Greene spoke with John Furrier (@furrier) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, today during the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco. They discussed Google’s process of moving its cloud capabilities into commercialized offerings for enterprise customers and outlining where innovations are driving the market. (* Disclosure below.)

Creating a cloud roadmap

Just two years into its cloud journey, Google Cloud already boasts seven applications and more than a billion active users. Greene attributed the company’s rapid success to a combination of its core competencies in technology, infrastructure and security.

“When you combine our ability to manage data and do artificial intelligence with our open source, our security, the underlying infrastructure, which everybody acknowledges is pretty much the most advanced technology in the world, it’s a pretty unbeatable combination,” she said.

Even so, the company still had to prove itself in the new cloud landscape. In order to gain customer trust, the company created guided roadmaps as it brought these tools to market. Once customers put their faith in the company’s cloud offerings, Google was able to take a more customized approach to strategizing and developing solutions alongside customers, Greene pointed out.

“[Engineers] get requirements from the customers about what they need, but then after they get to know customers, [they] can invent things that the customer had no idea were possible but that solves their problem in a much more powerful way,” she said.

In addition to unique customer concerns, Google Cloud is focusing on security and artificial intelligence for all its enterprise users. In her keynote at today’s conference, Greene called security the No. 1 worry among enterprises migrating their operations to the cloud — which is why Google said it has integrated it deeply at every level — and AI the No. 1 opportunity thanks to its potential to eliminate tedious, challenging work systematically across every industry.

“All those really painful jobs are going away that no one wanted to do,” she said. “Then you repurpose people, because we still need so many people to do things. Free them up, and think of the discoveries they’re going to make.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s extensive coverage of the Google Cloud Next event. (* Disclosure: Google Cloud sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Google Cloud nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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