‘Doubling Down’ on Data

Google Cloud positions itself as “the data cloud.” As such, Ichhpurani reviewed the company’s 2022 Data Cloud Alliance launch, which kicked off with a range of database and lakehouse vendors (which Google Cloud considers partners) as members. Ichhpurani also touched on Google Cloud’s open-source artificial intelligence development efforts and spoke of general, unnamed “new partnerships to grow our … cloud ecosystem.”

What does that mean for 2023?

“[W]e are doubling down on customer choice, and will embrace partners‘ innovation, even when their services overlap with Google Cloud’s,” Ichhpurani said.

The approach, he added, will support more innovation for end users and increase partners’ total addressable market.

Ichhpurani had more to say about data.