And within days, he said, the company delivered access to millions of students in Italy following a request from that country's ministry of education. Google made Meet and Google Classroom available to 1.3 million New York City students in just days as the city's education department sought to stop the use of Zoom, Soltero said.

'The growth rate of GCP was meaningfully higher than that of cloud overall,' Alphabet finance chief Ruth Porat told analysts in February, noting that G Suite growth comes from increase in the number of seats and the amount of revenue the company pulls in from each seat. The total includes contributions from Google Cloud Platform, the cloud infrastructure for running third-party applications that competes with Microsoft's Azure and Amazon Web Services. Services that compete with Meet, like Cisco's Webex, Zoom and Microsoft's Teams, have also taken on new users in the past few months.Īlphabet had $2.61 billion in cloud revenue in the fourth quarter, up 53% on an annualized basis, representing 5.7% of total revenue. Now that's been extended until September 30. Last month, as cases of COVID-19 were ramping up, Google extended features of Meets - including space for up to 250 participants on any given call and live streaming for up to 100,000 viewers on a domain - that are normally reserved for customers of the G Suite enterprise tier of service to all of its G Suite customers until July 1. Google Meet is separate from the consumer-focused Hangouts, which is available to anyone with a Google account. The service has 25 times more users than it did in January, Soltero said. That has boosted adoption of the Google Meet productivity-oriented video-calling service, one component of G Suite alongside Gmail, Google Drive and other services. Millions of people have been working from home to reduce the spread of coronavirus. Soltero joined Google in October after working at Microsoft, where he had been corporate vice president for the Office product group, among other roles. 'The business of G Suite is growing at an incredibly healthy and, frankly for me, surprising rate,' Javier Soltero, vice president and general manager of G Suite at Google, told CNBC in an interview on Tuesday.

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