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Why would Google even consider this? They're an advertising company and haven't really made any money from anything but advertising. What would they do with thi

• animuchan 2y ago
  I suppose they'd add this to the GCP family of products, same as Apigee.
• krisgenre 2y ago
  Maybe this was about advertising after all ;). I now know there is a company named Wiz.
• KoftaBob 2y ago
  The proportion of their revenue that comes from segments other than advertising is growing. I would imagine like most companies, Google/Alphabet wants to diversify their source of revenue/profit over time. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1093781/distribution-of-googles-revenues-by-segment/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1093781/distribution-of-...
• sebastiennight 2y ago
  Adding a cloud security offering to your existing "cloud infrastructure" suite makes sense. Buying a strategic complement where you can multiply the company's ARR overnight by integrating with your own suite makes sense. Or commoditizing this complement by offering it for free as a differentiator to competitors (Azure, AWS) would also make sense. Plenty of options to choose from.