Google Cloud Acquires Kaggle, Releases New Machine Learning Products

Over the past year, Greene said, Google Cloud engineers have done 500 releases on the platform, and the company has ramped up partnerships as well.

Another partnership showcased at Google Cloud Next was global bank, HSBC.

Alphabet Inc unveiled new customers and partners for its cloud storage service in an attempt to boost the standing of Google’s business sales unit, which lags behind Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

Most of Google’s revenue appears to be coming from Snap, which has a $2 billion contract with Google cloud for five years.

Google is also working on building tools for compliance and data governance to help large businesses move to the cloud in partnership with SAP. “We are excited to have Check Point back our commitment to help customers build highly secure, scalable and high-performance applications”.

One of the key announcements the company made to appeal to enterprises and businesses of all sizes was around customer support.

“The talent that come into the company are going to expect a product like this”, Alin D’Silva, a Verizon vice-president, said about the Google package. She pointed out that data analytics was Google’s strength as was machine learning, and that’s exactly what they will offer to their enterprise customers.

Likewise Colgate-Palmolive, who migrated 23,000 users to G Suite during a weekend, before eventually taking 28,000 users to Google within six months.

In addition to discussing how Google can gain ground in cloud, they also talked about Google’s Kubernetes play in cloud.

The opening keynote for Next saw Google bring out the full show for its cloud business, a side of the company that isn’t highlighted often.

Now Google has taken another step toward that future. Security policy, logging and reporting leverages Google Cloud Platform defined objects enhancing visibility.

In all likelihood, Google values Kaggle for its deep user base, rather than any proprietary technology, which is a bit of a departure from its usual penchant for cutting edge intellectual property.

Google is betting big on its dominance in machine learning and artificial intelligence to break into the cloud market, a message that was the underlying theme on the first day of the technology giant’s cloud conference that began here on Wednesday.

Moreover, the rapid innovation within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) portfolio throughout 2016 has positioned the business on an upswing, ready for accelerated growth in 2017.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Kaggle is led by chief executive and Melbourne University alumnus Anthony Goldbloom, 34, who founded the company in 2009 and relocated to Silicon Valley to run it.