Eye on Cloud, Google expands its marketing team in India

MUMBAI: Google is expanding its sales team in India as it looks to woo more enterprises to host applications on its cloud platform. The move comes as the search engine giant aggressively competes with rivals such as Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon Web Services in the country.

The push comes as Google sees traditional enterprises shifting their IT infrastructure towards the cloud to be agile and compete with Indian unicorns who have leveraged the pay-asyou-use model of hosting applications on the cloud. Google is also looking to tap the public cloud business in India.

Rick Harshman, MD, Google Cloud, Apac, told ET that the company’s expansion strategy in India would be driven by adoption of multi-cloud strategies by large companies and with a push of its new open cloud platform, Anthos.