Here’s my conversation with Will Grannis of Google Cloud, and the premiere episode of “Cloud Wars Executive Insights.” As the tech companies in our Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings drive transformation not just in individual corporations but also in entire global industries, it’s essential for business executives to understand the strategic intentions of each of these vendors. That’s what this new limited series is all about.
Episode 1: Google Cloud
In this episode, I talk with Will Grannis, who is the Managing Director of the CTO Office at Google Cloud. Will shares with us his highly informed perspective on how the world’s #7 vendor is helping to simultaneously drive innovation and growth for businesses *and* breakthrough experiences for customers. Will and I discuss how data analytics and machine learning can help companies unlock the transformative power of the cloud. And finally, we explore how the cloud can and is enabling data-driven business models that would never have been feasible in the past.
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Key Concepts
Google is on the move in cloud and not from a theoretical basis but from an actual basis. – Will Grannis Click To Tweet What we see with cloud is how it gives people superpower in the strategic planning process that allows them to move quickly, not necessarily to an answer, but to take some of the risk and uncertainty away. – Will Grannis Click To Tweet A big part of being a CTO of a public company is getting technology vendors to work together, right? Google is offloading a lot of that heartache. – Will Grannis Click To Tweet
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Cloud Wars Top 10 Executive Insights
A limited interview series from Cloud Wars Live. The tech companies in the Cloud Wars Top 10 are driving the transformations of not just individual corporations but also of entire global industries. As such, it’s essential for business executives to understand the strategic intentions of each of these vendors. Our “Executive Insights” series drills down into the unique strategies, differentiated capabilities, and customer orientations of each vendor in the Cloud Wars Top 10, and offers a compelling overview of how those highly influential tech giants are changing how the world lives, works, plays, learns and dreams.
