Googles cloud business under Greene was plagued by internal clashes and missed acquisitions
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In some sense, VMware helped kick off the cloud revolution by pioneering a technology called "virtualization," which allowed the operators of data centers to squeeze more functionality out of the server hardware they bought and maintained.During Greenes tenure, Google increased its annual capital expenditures from $10 billionto over $13 billion, and went on a hiring spree — the cloud group has added more people than any other at Alphabet over the last two years.Clash of leaders One big challenge for Googles cloud business has been an unclear direction, highlighted by tension between Pichai and Greene, according to former employees and other people with knowledge of their relationship who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the topic.Tariq Shaukat, president of partner and industry platforms in the cloud business, told CNBC that representatives under Greene have increasingly been joining other Google teams, like advertising and maps, in potential customer conversations.Googles bid for GitHub, whose cloud software lets programmers collaborate and share code, came in at just under $6 billion, and it declined to raise the price after being told of Microsofts offer, the person said.