Pursuing the ‘Digital Transformation’ Gold Mine
Every hyperscaler talks up “digital transformation,” which, frankly speaking, represents a gold mine for cloud providers. The more organizations they can get to adopt their cloud platforms, the more money they make. It’s a no-brainer. And Google Cloud, having yet to report a profit, is taking aim at helping customers “modernize in every major product area,” per Ichhpurani’s blog — aka “digital transformation.”
As such, Google Cloud now will support “all major data formats” and remove data limits for partners. Ichhpurani cited several database, business process and IT service management companies as specific examples of firms that will benefit as examples.
Presumably, all of Google Cloud’s partners will gain from the data openness. Ichhpurani did say the openness extends to “the more than 800 companies [that] have built their products on our data cloud.”
Ichhpurani told Channel Futures that an open data cloud supports a multicloud strategy and removing data limits benefits everyone, from customers to partners.
