The Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and the larger Google Apps business were combined into one Cloud division. The respective Sales and Marketing functions were also combined, such that customers now have a single rep selling both GCP and Google Apps. Rival Microsoft is doing something similar, by bundling Office 365 and Azure and motivating its partners to sell both.
Under Diane Greene, the Cloud product development and infrastructure teams have also been combined, to include both engineers working on new products as well as security and network engineers working on the underlying data center infrastructure.
This should help Google build and iterate Cloud products at a faster clip.
Google has been ?hiring very aggressively? to scale its enterprise sales rep capacity and also retrofitting existing sales reps from elsewhere in Google into GCP. Bottom line, some checks do flag some progress on the GCP sales and support front, but many other checks counter that they are NOT seeing a material capacity build-out and that this gap is still making it tough for GCP to gain mindshare relative to AWS and Microsoft
