Google Cloud acquires Bitium

Re:Google Cloud acquires Bitium by kyrra on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @04:37PM (#15342294)

I have no clue the intent of this buy, but Google Cloud does have an IAM feature today[0]. I'd bet they are looking to pull in talent to help improve that feature, or maybe to make the IAM more than just IAM and handle all the things that Bitium does today.

You have to remember that Google Cloud also has bought StackDriver and Firebase and continues to grow those products.

(disclaimer: Google employee that wishes he worked on cloud)

[0] https://cloud.google.com/iam/

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Re:Google Cloud acquires Bitium by vgt on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @04:46PM (#15342349)

and Kaggle and api.ai and apigee and Qwiklabs and Orbitera and Anvato and you get the point :)

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Re:Google Cloud acquires Bitium by arunpn123 on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @05:20PM (#15342619)

Apologies for taking it offtopic, but can't you just move internally?

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Re:Google Cloud acquires Bitium by kyrra on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @05:57PM (#15342872)

Lateral movement here is really easy. But I'm at a smaller Google office, which limits the options I have for other teams without moving to a different location.

EDIT: I ranked location over product area when I picked where to interview, and I'm still happy with my choice. I ended up in payments, which I was not thrilled about when I started, but I've come to enjoy it. There are lots of technical challenges when you are dealing with the payment volume Google moves.

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