Google's Close To Beating Amazon, Microsoft For a Major Cloud Client: Sources (cnbc.com)

An anonymous reader shares a CNBC report: Google's aggressive push into cloud computing, where it trails Amazon.com and Microsoft, has put the internet giant in the lead position to land a marquee client: PayPal. While Google is the front-runner, according to people familiar with the matter, PayPal is evaluating the other leading providers and hasn't made any final decisions. PayPal is unlikely to move its technology infrastructure in the fourth quarter, the peak period for online commerce, said the sources, who asked not to be named because the talks are confidential. Under the leadership of VMware co-founder Diane Greene, Google is out to prove that it's a legitimate player in the rapidly expanding cloud infrastructure market.

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hybrid vigor

[Anonymous Coward]

Maintain enough presence in each provider to provide resiliency, and a big enough stick to push down pricing.

The utterly evil PayPal,

[jenningsthecat]

teaming up with with the company that drove a spike through the heart of their own "Don't be evil" motto. How appropriate...