Google Combines All Cloud Services

Therein he said Greene, who has been a Google board member since 2012, will take over "all our cloud businesses, including Google for Work, Cloud Platform and Google Apps".

With all of the buzz around the cloud, you'd think that a good many enterprises would have already made the move, but the reality is that it's still a greenfield. The company has four availability regions compared to Microsoft Azure's 20 and .

Greene will now be placed in charge of , as well as its efforts in business application software, where it has lately been falling behind Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and even IBM (NYSE:IBM) as well as Amazon. Pichai described Google's corporate business a "journey that has organically evolved".

The move will result in more coordination, said Google CEO Sundar Pichai in on the company's . Google will leverage Bebop's capabilities to deliver integrated cloud products for everything from end-user products such as Android and Chromebooks to products for running infrastructure and services in Google Cloud Platform and for developer frameworks for enterprise and mobile users.

That was followed by this observation on Google: "Despite excellent technology and scale, Google will only begin to develop momentum in large-enterprise business in 2016".

"The goal is for us to talk about Google as a cloud company by 2020", Hölzle said on stage at the Structure conference in San Francisco. "In fact, more than 60% of the Fortune 500 are actively using a paid Google for Work product", Pichai in his blog post. Google can further differentiate its offerings with its industry-leading core competencies, such as its current language translation and machine-learning predictive services.

The hire of one of VMware's co-founders and the virtualization giant's one-time CEO signals Google isn't loosening its resolve to push into the enterprise, Google partners told CRN.

Financial terms of the deal between bebop and Google were not disclosed. She founded VMware with her husband and Stanford professor, Mendel Rosenblum, and a few others in the late 1990s. This acquisition by Google is hoping to help more businesses find great applications and see benefits from cloud computing.