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

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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.

VMware sells its "virtualization" technology for improving the efficiency of data centres to many of the same customers that Google Cloud is targeting. Many …