Google Just Showed Up Amazon And IBM

Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) is making big splashes in the cloud computing community this week. Under the leadership of Diane Greene, former VMWare co-founder, the company is striking deals left and right for its long-lagging cloud hosting business, thus attacking Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). If you follow these companies, you already know that. However, there is something else going on which is an absolutely fundamental shift in Google's strategy and it has to do with today's announced additions to cloud platform. If you are a regular reader of my articles, you might be aware of my under-the-hood series for the artificial intelligence market.