10 big announcements from Google's Cloud Conference

In San Francisco this week at Pier 48, overlooking the Giants' AT&T Ballpark, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) executives are holding a user conference to introduce products and services they hope will help make the case for choosing Google in the cloud. Sam Charrington, a cloud and big data analyst and advisor, summed up Google executives' pitch best this week on Twitter: "GCP exec team's operating thesis: 'Cloud's not done. MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Is Google pushing the cloud envelope too far? Google is seen by many as being behind Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and even IBM in the IaaS cloud market. In a new research note, Deutsche Bank investment analysts predicted that GCP is on a 400 million revenue run rate, which is roughly 20 times less than AWS's. But as cloud watcher Charrington notes: "Google came from behind to win in search, mail, maps, browser, mobile based on strength of tech/product.