Interview: John Honeycutt, Google Cloud

Cloud computing is the biggest growth business for some of the world’s largest technology companies, such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

Amazon Web Services, of course, remains the dominant cloud service provider, with a 31.7% market share in 2018, according to Canalys research. Microsoft Azure follows with 16.8%, and Google Cloud trails in third place with 8.5%.

But it’s clear that Google is intent on closing the gap.

Last month, for example, Google Cloud rolled out Anthos, which is designed to help companies more simply manage workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Google also pitched attendees of its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco on the idea that Google Cloud can deliver AI, security and data privacy like no other provider can.

However, within the telecoms and media space, perhaps the biggest signal of Google’s ambition to catch up with its rivals is its hiring this year…