As Google readies itself for the next frontier to take over the enterprise, it can’t help but prepare its arsenal in the cloud and app domain. According to reports, the search giant is looking to buy its way into the enterprise with a list of possible acquisitions in the pipeline.
Re/code has reported that Google might scoop up a large number of startups which include Metavine — an automated app services startup; Shopify which is a Canadian e-commerce public company and Namely — a payroll and health benefits services provider startup. The list might also include CallidusCloud and Xactly, adds the report.
However, sources revealed in the report that the approaches are still in its preliminary stages and there have been no formalities done yet. The news site also shared that most of the companies including Google, Shopify, Namely and Metavine declined to comment on the matter while Xactly and Callidus did not return their requests for comment.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s inclination towards cloud is no surprise. Late last year, Google hired VMware co-founder and industry veteran Diane Greene to run its cloud business. Along with the hire, Google had bought Greene’s startup bebop Technologies Inc, a development platform that helps build and maintain enterprise applications.
Pichai has made selling cloud storage space to enterprises a growing priority for the company to take on rivals Amazon.com and Microsoft. “Every business in the world is going to run on cloud eventually,” he had said in October last year. Amazon’s cloud business is now its fastest-growing business, while Microsoft is banking on cloud computing to make up for slowing sales of personal computers.
Greene, a Google director for three years, was roped in to lead a new role combining the company’s cloud business including Google for Work, Cloud Platform and Google Apps.
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