Of all the major cloud vendors, perhaps Google is the one with the biggest brand recognition, due to its ubiquity and use by consumers. It is only surpassed by Apple as the most valuable brand according to Forbes. Google is also the youngest of the five cloud vendors. Few companies can be said to be more embedded in the Internet and its development. Whereas other companies adapted to the cloud, Google was born in the cloud and drove the development of many technologies that help power the cloud today. To understand how, let’s consider how a small science project grew to be a dominating force in cloud ...
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