Google India to be key in cloud services strategy: Google

With a vibrant startup ecosystem and fewer legacy systems, India will play a key role in Google's strategy as it looks to take on Amazon's AWS and Microsoft's Azure in the global enterprise cloud services space. "India is a pretty exciting place because there are so many companies growing so quickly over there and the fact that these companies do not have [legacy systems] is pretty exciting. And they can just start in the cloud. You have seen Sundar [Pichai] take a deep interest in India and so, Google overall is very interested in India," Google Cloud chief Diane Greene said, adding that there is a pool of talented manpower as well and, overall, "its vibrant and it's important to be there [in India]." Google is investing heavily in creating business tools and products, driven by open source technology and machine learning to help companies use affordable fast computing.