Google's Greene scores on catch up with Amazon's cloud

San Francisco

GOOGLE Inc, long an also-ran in cloud services, has scored an important victory in its effort to win corporate clients: Home Depot is moving some of its data to Google's cloud.

The deal - which was flagged on Tuesday by Google executive Greg DeMichillie in a briefing and was expected to be announced formally on Wednesday - highlights the momentum that Google Cloud Platform has gained under the leadership of Diane Greene, a co-founder of VMware who joined Google late last year.