Google Cloud is a cloud computing platform launched in 2011 that is available in over 200 countries. It has two major offerings - Google Cloud Platform, which provides infrastructure as a service, and G-Suite, which offers productivity applications. In 2019, Google Cloud saw 53% year-over-year revenue growth and doubled the number of deals over $50 million. It is growing aggressively under new CEO Thomas Kurian and aims to provide industry-specific digital transformation solutions on its distributed computing platform.
2. Google Cloud - Overview
• Launched in 2011
• Available in 200+ Countries
• Two major sub-segments
- Google Cloud Platforms
- G-Suite
• Google cloud strategy
- Distributed Infrastructure as a Service
- Digital Transformation Platform
- Industry specific digital transform solutions
• Landmark Acquisition – Looker (US$ 2.6 billion)
• Cloud infrastructure spending growth of 67.6% in
2019 on annual basis
• With the arrival of Thomas Kurian on helm,
Google Cloud is expanding more aggressively
Revenue (2019)
~US$ 8.9 billion
Revenue Run Rate (2019)
>US$ 10 billion
Up by 53% Y-o-Y
In 2019, number of deals
over $50 million more than
doubled
Source – Latest 10-K, Transcript, Google Cloud Platform Event, Canalys Analysis and Web search
190% YoY increase in
partner influenced GCP
Revenue
3. Google Cloud – Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Features –
• Third in terms of revenue on cloud computing
market
• Providing solutions to large enterprises as per
their specific requirements
• Provides all type of cloud services – Public,
Private and Hybrid
• Low and simple pricing
• Whole documentation are created by a curated
community and open for free use
• Google’s Economies of Scale Let Customers
Spend Less
• Live migrations of Virtual Machines during
maintenance events
• As per SADA system Survey, GCP is most
preferred among its competitors by IT Engineers
Source – Company website, SADA Anaysis and web search
4. Google Cloud – G-Suite
Features -
• Direct tie to New Ways of Work
• Strong global brand identity and distinctive
corporate culture
• Low and simple pricing
• Compelling user experience
• Streamlined developer experience
Source: Gartner, Web search, Company website and Statista
Advantages –
• Leader in the USA with 56.97% market share as of
April 2020
• G-suite has more than 6 million paying businesses
as of April 2020
• Customers include –
- SalesForce
- Whirpool
- Colgate
- Palmolive
5. Google Cloud – Overview
Some Major Customers - Recognitions –
• Forrester names Google Cloud a Leader in the
2020 Data Management for Analytics Forrester
Wave™
• Forrester Research names Google Cloud a Leader
among Public Cloud Development and
Infrastructure Platforms
• Gartner positions Google Cloud as a Leader in
Cloud AI Developer Services
• Forrester positions Google Cloud a Leader in
Computer Vision Platforms
• Gartner names Google a Leader in the 2019
Magic Quadrant for Operational Database
Management Systems
• Forrester names Google Cloud a Leader in its
evaluation for stream analytics solutions
• Forrester names Google Cloud a Leader in the
cloud native continuous integration tools market
Source - Google Cloud Platform Event and Company website
6. Google Cloud – Major Executives
Name Previous Organisation and Position Google Position
Tom Kurian
Oacle, Presidnet of Product
Development CEO, Google Cloud
Rob Enslin
SAP, President of Cloud and Board
Member
President of Global Customer
Operations
Amit Zaveri
Oracle Cloud Pltform SVP, EVP Product
Development VP and Head of Platform
Chris Ciauri SalesForce, EVP and GM EMEA President of EMEA
Mie Daniels SVP, Public Sector Sales VP of Public sector
John Jester Microsoft, VP of Worldwide Success VP of Customer Experience
Source – Company website and Web Search
7. Google Cloud over Microsoft Azure…
• Highest market share growth rate of 83% in
comparison to Microsoft Azure (75%)
• Per second billing model in comparison to Per minute
billing model of Azure
• Fastest response time across all products. Enterprises
switching to GCP have decreased load time of up to
50%
• Preferred choice for Machine learning or Big data
analytics users
• Developer of Kubernetes app management standard
which is offered by Microsoft Azure as well
• Anthos, built on open source technologies like
Kubernetes, makes GCP a flexible and open cloud for
companies with hybrid or multi-cloud ambitions. Huge
experience in Open Source space give a big advantage
to Google over Azure
Source – Web Search, SADA Analytics
8. Google Cloud over Microsoft Azure
• GCP’s discounts are far more flexible, and customers
are not locked into proprietary, non-cloud software
• DevOps Expertise is field where no one is near to
Google Cloud
• GCP users have the choice to use a pre-defined VM or
select any configuration of CPU and memory
• Easily Convert Costly VMs to Cost-Effective
Containers
• GCP has the largest private network of any public cloud
vendor, and its undersea cable network is more than
15 times the size of Microsoft’s
• GCP encrypts all data at rest in GCP services by
default which is not available in Azure in by default
• Google stands apart is its proprietary AI chip, the
Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), which is specifically
tailored for TensorFlow. Azure has no equivalent to
the TPU.
Source – SADA Analytics