Google playing catch-up with Amazon and Microsoft in cloud computing
It is likely to rely on faster networks, lower prices and lots of artificial intelligence in what will be an uphill climb
New York
WHEN it comes to cloud computing, Google is in a very unfamiliar position: seriously behind.
Google is chasing Amazon and Microsoft for control of the next generation of business technology, in enormous cloud-computing data centres. Cloud systems are cheap and flexible, and companies are quickly shifting their technologies for that environment. According to analysts at Gartner, the global cloud-computing business will be worth US$67 billion by 2020, compared with US$23 billion at the end of this year.
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