| | March 20176CIOReviewThe arrival of Diane Greene at Google little over a year ago marked the beginning of a new era. With the co-founder of VMware, respected across the industry as the queen of enterprise computing, holding the reins of Google's cloud computing business, Alphabet's biggest subsidiary has been busy building its cloud muscles. Diane's division has been the fastest growing in all of Alphabet's vast portfolio. While Amazon still dominates the cloud world, Google is closing in on Microsoft for second place--Disney, HSBC, Verizon, Schlumberger, Home Depot, and eBay have all started leveraging Google Cloud Platform (GCP), substantiating the platform's enterprise-readiness.Google is bullish about its platform's reliability and five nines availability, especially in the wake of Amazon's recent cloud outage. The company has made it clear that with GCP, users run their workloads on the same proven technology that enables Google to return billions of search results in milliseconds--something the company has dominated for nearly two decades. Additionally, Google has been prioritizing its cloud platform's security by innovating in the areas of key management, compliance, data loss prevention, and multi-factor authentication.On a different note, Google is partnering with industry leaders like SAP to bring HANA to GCP. What's more, the recent partnership with Intel effectively ensured that Google beat Amazon to become the first public cloud provider to run Intel's latest Xeon Skylake processors.Besides all the GCP activity, Google has also announced major updates to G Suite offerings like Google Drive and Hangouts. The new beefed-up Google Drive now includes Google Vault, Team Drive, and Drive File Stream, holding appeal to enterprise customers. Moreover, in an attempt to orient Hangouts toward business users, the new app Meet by Google Hangouts allows businesses to conduct HD video meetings with up to 30 people.Amid these exciting developments in the Google landscape, CIOReview presents its Google Technology edition featuring insights from industry thought leaders and solutions from innovative technology providers. We hope this edition is valuable in helping you leverage the latest innovations from Google to escalate your enterprise productivity.Let us know your thoughts.Jeevan George Managing Editoreditor@cioreview.comEditorialBattle on the CloudCopyright © 2017 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.CIOReviewMARCH 31 - 2017Mailing AddressCIOReview44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.402.1463, F:510-894-8405 MARCH 31 - 2017, Vol 06 SE 35 Published by ValleyMedia, Inc.To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com CIOReviewEditorial StaffSalesT: 510-565-7560Aaron Pierce Ava GarciaJasmin Alic Joshua Parker Niko Alton Sarah FernandesJennifer Stephenjennifer.stephen@cioreview.comVisualizersStephen ThomasJohn GouthamManaging EditorJeevan GeorgeGOOGLE TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL
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