Google To Acquire Bebop, Hires VMware CEO To Lead Its Cloud Business

Pushing further into the cloud computing business, Google announced on Thursday that they are bringing in Diane Greene, co-founder and CEO of VMware, to lead a new team combining all Google’s cloud businesses, including Google for Work, Cloud Platform, and Google Apps. This new business will bring together product, engineering, marketing and sales, thereby enabling more integrated and coordinated operations.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai made the announcement in a blog post. He said that Google has significantly larger data center capacity as compared to other public cloud providers, which facilitates offering best price and performance to customers.

Diane will also continue with her role on Google’s Board of Directors, having served three years already in the said position and has a huge amount of operational experience that will continue to help the company.

Pichai also announced that Google has entered into an agreement to acquire bebop, a company founded by Diane. Bebop is a new development platform that simplifies building and maintaining enterprise applications.

“We think this will help many more businesses find great applications, and reap the benefits of cloud computing”, he said.

As a result of the acquisition, bebop and its team will help the tech giant to provide integrated cloud products at every level: end-user platforms like Android and Chromebooks, infrastructure and services in Google Cloud Platform, developer frameworks for mobile and enterprise users, and end-user applications like Gmail and Docs.

“Both Diane and the bebop team will join Google upon close of the acquisition”, Pichai added.