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Google Cloud Discusses Database Migrations and Other Priorities

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John Foley
Aug 03, 2021
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Andi Gutmans, GM and VP of engineering for databases at Google Cloud, says the database market has reached a tipping point as businesses transition from traditional database systems to cloud-native platforms. Gutmans, who oversees development of Bigtable, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Firestore, and other Google Cloud database technologies, has a lot of influence over what happens next.

In our latest Cloud Database Report Podcast, Gutmans says Google Cloud is focused on three areas in the second half of 2021: database migrations; enterprise capabilities in areas such as security, governance, and high availability; and the developer experience.

Based on our conversation, I have identified five areas where I believe Google Cloud has, or potentially could have, an advantage in the hotly contested cloud database market: 

  • Purpose-built modernization

  • Low-fuss migration

  • Integrated data clouds

  • Enterprise-class capabilities in the cloud

  • Transformative developer experience

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