Google Pumps Up Cloud Platform With Machine Learning - InformationWeek

Google executives on Tuesday took turns extolling the capabilities and potential of the company's cloud computing infrastructure, with an eye toward dethroning cloud computing leader Amazon. "In the future, almost everything will be done in the cloud because it simply is a better way of doing computing," said Google CEO Sundar Pichai in opening remarks at the Google Cloud Platform Next 2016 conference. Such sentiment is expected at a cloud evangelism event. But Google wrapped its hard sell in an alluring package, the promise of machine learning. "This platform is not the end, it's the bottom," said Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google parent company Alphabet.