{"id":15308,"date":"2019-06-07T19:56:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T19:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/google-continues-to-preach-multi-cloud-approach-with-looker-acquisition.html"},"modified":"2019-06-07T19:56:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T19:56:39","slug":"google-continues-to-preach-multi-cloud-approach-with-looker-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/google-continues-to-preach-multi-cloud-approach-with-looker-acquisition.html","title":{"rendered":"Google continues to preach multi-cloud approach with Looker acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Google announced it was buying Looker yesterday morning for $2.6 billion<\/a>, you couldn\u2019t blame some of the company\u2019s 1,600 customers if they worried a bit if Looker <\/a> would continue its multi-cloud approach. But Google Cloud chief Thomas Kurian made clear the company will continue to support an open approach to its latest purchase when it joins the fold later this year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s consistent with the messaging from Google Next<\/a>, the company\u2019s cloud conference in April. It was looking to portray itself as the more open cloud. It was going to be friendlier to open-source projects, running them directly on Google Cloud. It was going to provide a way to manage your workloads wherever they live, with Anthos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ray Wang, founder and principal analyst at Constellation Research, says that in a multi-cloud world, Looker represented one of the best choices, and that could be why Google went after it. \u201cLooker\u2019s strengths include its centralized data-modeling and governance, which promotes consistency and reuse. It runs on top of modern cloud databases including Google BigQuery, AWS Redshift and Snowflake,\u201d Wang told TechCrunch. He added, \u201cThey wanted to acquire a tool that is as easy to use as Microsoft Power BI and as deep as Tableau.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patrick Moorhead, founder and principal analyst at Moor Insights Strategy, also sees this deal as part of a consistent multi-cloud message from Google. \u201cI do think it is in alignment with its latest strategy outlined at Google Next. It has talked about rich analytics tools that could pull data from disparate sources,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Kurian pushing the multi-cloud message<\/h2>\n

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, <\/a> who took over from Diane Greene<\/a> at the end of last year, was careful to emphasize the company\u2019s commitment to multi-cloud and multi-database support in comments to media and analysts yesterday. \u201cWe first want to reiterate, we\u2019re very committed to maintaining local support for other clouds, as well as to serve data from multiple databases because customers want a single analytics foundation for their organization, and they want to be able to in the analytics foundation, look at data from multiple data sources. So we\u2019re very committed to that,\u201d Kurian said yesterday.<\/p>\n

From a broader customer perspective, Kurian sees Looker providing customers with a single way to access and visualize data. \u201cOne of the things that is challenging for organizations in operationalizing business intelligence, that we feel that Looker has done really well, is it gives you a single place to model your data, define your data definitions \u2014 like what\u2019s revenue, who\u2019s a gold customer or how many servers tickets are open \u2014 and allows you then to blend data across individual data silos, so that as an organization, you\u2019re working off a consistent set of metrics,\u201d Kurian explained.<\/p>\n

In a blog post<\/a> announcing the deal, Looker CEO Frank Bien sought to ease concerns that the company might move away from the multi-cloud, multi-database support. \u201cFor customers and partners, it\u2019s important to know that today\u2019s announcement solidifies ours as well as Google Cloud\u2019s commitment to multi-cloud. Looker customers can expect continuing support of all cloud databases like Amazon Redshift, Azure SQL, Snowflake, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata and more,\u201d Bien wrote in the post.<\/p>\n

No antitrust concerns<\/h2>\n

Kurian also emphasized that this deal shouldn\u2019t attract the attention of antitrust regulators, who have been sniffing around the big tech companies<\/a> like Google\/Alphabet, Apple and Amazon as of late. \u201cWe\u2019re not buying any data along with this transaction. So it does not introduce any concentration risk in terms of concentrating data. Secondly, there are a large number of analytic tools in the market. So by just acquiring Looker, we\u2019re not further concentrating the market in any sense. And lastly, all the other cloud players also have their own analytic tools. So it represents a further strengthening of our competitive position relative to the other players in the market,\u201d he explained. Not to mention its pledge to uphold the multi-cloud and multi-database support, which should show it is not doing this strictly to benefit Google or to draw customers specifically to GCP.<\/p>\n

Just this week, the company announced a partnership with Snowflake<\/a>, the cloud data warehouse startup that has raised almost a billion dollars<\/a>, to run on Google Cloud Platform. It already runs AWS and Microsoft Azure. In fact, Wang suggested that Snowflake could be next on Google\u2019s radar as it tries to build a multi-cloud soup-to-nuts analytics offering.<\/p>\n

Regardless, with Looker the company has a data analytics tool to complement its data processing tools, and together the two companies should provide a fairly comprehensive data solution. If they truly keep it multi-cloud, that should keep current customers happy, especially those who work with tools outside of the Google Cloud ecosystem or simply want to maintain their flexibility.<\/p>\n

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Google to acquire analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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