While there is a great deal of evidence that enterprises are moving en masse to the cloud, one key piece of data puts the transformation in perspective. According to statistics cited by Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian, 80% of workloads are still on-premises. This percentage alone offers a reason why Google Cloud introduced ...

Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian’s twin brother, George, shares a lot more than the same personal features. Both are now CEOs of major technology businesses, both grew up together in India and both possess a strong affinity for the hybrid, multicloud world. For George Kurian (pictured), CEO of NetApp Inc., the hybrid model ...

When Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian took the stage at Next ’19 in San Francisco on Tuesday, he described how Google was listening to its customers. From the subsequent flow of announcements during the conference this week, developers must have figured prominently in those customer conversations. Signs of Google’s developer courtship can be ...

Whether it’s in response to concerns from large enterprise customers or from their own global threat intelligence, security is very much on the minds of top executives for the leading cloud providers these days. At the Amazon Web Services Summit in March, Amazon.com Inc Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels devoted a significant amount of time in his ...

Businesses with big ambitions had better be able to fund them. Google Cloud’s top executive made it a point today to ensure there would not be any doubts about the level of his company’s commitment as a major cloud provider. Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian opened his keynote remarks at the company’s Cloud Next conference in ...

Before software is going to eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously declared, video is going to eat the Internet. A report from Cisco Systems Inc., released in February, showed that IP video traffic would comprise 82% of the Internet by 2022. The bottom line is that streaming of live events and a tidal wave ...

Google LLC rebranded its Cloud Services Platform today under the name of Anthos, the Greek term for “flowers.” Anthos will have general availability on 30 launch partners, including Cisco Systems Inc. and Dell EMC, according to Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian, raising hopes that the hybrid platform will blossom into a multicloud engine that can drive ...

There is a school of thought among some analysts in the enterprise world that edge computing will eat the cloud. This notion was further reinforced during the keynote discussion by several executives at Fortinet Inc. on the opening day of the Fortinet Accelerate conference in Orlando, Florida. Yet, other analysts have a slightly different view ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald once memorably wrote that there are “no second acts in American lives.” We are about to find out if there are second acts for cloud computing providers. When the curtain goes up for Google Cloud Next ’19 this morning in San Francisco, two questions will be foremost on the minds of attendees: What ...

The time may finally have arrived when CIO no longer means “career is over.” As technology drives nearly every business imaginable today, the role of the chief information officer in managing enterprise information technology is not only becoming more important, it is beginning to be viewed as a key stepping stone to top corporate leadership. ...