The outside of the Google offices is seen in Manhattan in New York City, New York, US, January 18, 2019.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Google trails Amazon and Microsoft in the fast-growing business of helping companies move to the cloud, with Google Cloud holding 8.5 per cent of worldwide cloud market share at the end of 2018, according to Canalys.
Google shuts down Google+ after mass data leak
Amazon Web Services had a 31.7 per cent share and Microsoft Azure 16.8 per cent during the same period, the market research firm said.
Google in November hired former Oracle product head Thomas Kurian as the chief executive officer of the cloud division.
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.
Google to charge Android device makers up to ‘$40 per device’
The company has raised about $15 million from investors including leading venture funds such as Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed, according to Crunchbase.
Google did not disclose terms of the deal.
COMMENTS
Comments are moderated and generally will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive.
For more information, please see our Comments FAQ