Google Cloud Discusses Database Migrations and Other Priorities
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