Google to buy data migration firm Alooma to rival Amazon, Microsoft cloud services
6 years, 1 month ago

Google to buy data migration firm Alooma to rival Amazon, Microsoft cloud services

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Google trails Amazon and Microsoft in the fast-growing business of helping companies move to cloud. Alphabet Inc’s Google said on 19 February it will buy data migration company Alooma, as part of efforts to catch up with bigger cloud service rivals Amazon and Microsoft. Google trails Amazon and Microsoft in the fast-growing business of helping companies move to the cloud, with Google Cloud holding 8.5 percent of worldwide cloud market share at the end of 2018, according to Canalys. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Alooma helps enterprise companies streamline database migration in the cloud with a tool that enables moving data from multiple sources to a single data warehouse.

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