UPDATED 01:37 EDT / SEPTEMBER 14 2016

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Evernote to take up residence in Google’s cloud

Evernote has said it will migrate its entire infrastructure onto Google’s Cloud Platform.

The deal is a big win for the search giant’s effort to make headway against Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, the leaders in public cloud computing.

In a blog post discussing the move, Evernote’s Vice President of Operations Ben McCormack said that while the company’s own infrastructure is doing just fine at present, “it lacks the speed and flexibility we need for tomorrow. In reviewing our options, the benefits of adopting a modern cloud solution for our data quickly became clear,” McCormack added.

Evernote already has an existing relationship with Google, as its solution was previously integrated with Google Drive. By switching to Google’s infrastructure, Evernote will be able to take advantage of what it said are “significant improvements in performance, security, efficiency and scalability.” In addition, moving to Google Cloud Platform will give the company more room to “focus time and resources on the things that matter most.”

McCormack noted that one of the major benefits for Evernote is that it will be able to access all of Google’s machine learning technologies that it uses to power things like photo management, translation, voice search and so on. “We look forward to taking advantage of these technologies to help you more easily connect your ideas, search for information in Evernote, and find the right note at the moment you need it,” he wrote.

One of Evernote’s main concerns when assessing various cloud providers was security, and it decided that Google’s platform was the safest bet thanks to features such as encryption at rest. Evernote plans to maintain its “three laws of data protection” following the migration, which state that user’s data belongs to them, is protected and is portable.

Google has been racing to build out its machine learning capabilities as a way of attracting large enterprises like Evernote into its cloud, rather than into those of rivals Amazon.com Inc. Microsoft Corp. Those capabilities should make it easier for Evernote to build new, intelligent applications that can sit atop of its note-taking application and deliver more value to its users.

“The proximity of strong developer services around data science is a key capability,” said International Data Corp. (IDC) analyst Al Hilwa in a statement to Computerworld. “Google has clearly invested greatly in this space in many ways because of it generates enormous amount of data and because of its investments in other AI initiatives over the years. What is new and interesting here is using these capabilities as a lever to attract customers like Evernote to its public cloud.”

Migrating Evernote’s data will be a mammoth undertaking. Its servers currently host around three petabytes of data belonging to more than 200 million customers. The operation will start in October, and should be completed by the end of the year.

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