Google Cloud Next ’19 took place last week in San Francisco, barely eight months after the 2018 event — but a lot has changed in that time. The event marked the first major public appearance of new CEO Thomas Kurian, who took the reins of the company from predecessor Diane Greene earlier this year. It’s a critical moment in the company’s history: It remains in third-place in the hyper-competitive cloud wars against AWS and Microsoft. But Kurian used the opportunity to share a glimpse of the new direction he is taking the company.
