The cloud war moves to machine learning: Does Google have an edge? - TechRepublic

Cloud diversity: How 10 companies use the cloud 10 different ways How Amazon is planning for the second decade of the cloud revolution IT will spend more than one-third of its budget on cloud in 2017, says new report Subscribe to TechRepublic's Cloud Insights newsletter Google has been running a distant third in the cloud computing wars, with first-mover Amazon Web Services and enterprise darling Microsoft Azure outpacing it in the infrastructure-as-a-service market. But what if, as Stratechery analyst Ben Thompson has posited, infrastructure (or platform) isn't really the big deal, but rather is democratizing the ability to make sense of big data? In that battle, Google has more than a fighting chance, but new moves from AWS to democratize machine learning will make it hard to gain ground. Machine learning is a hot topic, but it's also a particularly thorny one to navigate. Put simply, most enterprises lack the technical chops to be able to master machine learning.