Google's Cloud-Computing Boss, Diane Greene, to Step Down
November 16 2018 - 2:52PM
Dow Jones News
By Douglas MacMillan
Google said its top cloud-computing executive is departing the
company and will be replaced by a former executive of
business-software rival Oracle Corp.
Diane Greene will step down from her role as CEO of Google Cloud
in January, she said in a blog post Friday. Thomas Kurian, a former
president of product development at Oracle, will take over next
year. Ms. Greene, who ran Google's cloud division for three years,
will retain her seat on the board of Google parent Alphabet
Inc.
Ms. Greene, a Silicon Valley veteran who co-founded
corporate-software pioneer VMware Inc., joined Google in 2015 to
help it take on Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in the growing
market for cloud-computing software and services.
Google doesn't disclose revenue from cloud computing, but
analysts at Credit Suisse Group AG expect the unit to generate $6.9
billion, or about 6% of Alphabet's total revenue this year -- up
from just 3% last year, the analysts estimate.
Write to Douglas Macmillan at Douglas.Macmillan@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
November 16, 2018 14:37 ET (19:37 GMT)
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