Google Reassures Customers Looker Will Keep Its Multi-Cloud Strategy
Google pays $2.6 billion for Looker and promises to maintain the analytics platform's multi-cloud and multi-database capabilities.
Google acquires Looker for $2.6 billion and immediately reassures the analytics company's 1,600 customers that it maintains its open, multi-cloud approach. Google Cloud chief Thomas Kurian emphasizes that Looker continues to support various cloud platforms and databases, reinforcing the broader open strategy Google outlines at its recent Google Next conference.
Industry analysts view this purchase as a logical step for Google's multi-cloud strategy. Ray Wang of Constellation Research notes that Looker excels in centralized data modeling and runs seamlessly on modern cloud databases like Google BigQuery, AWS Redshift, and Snowflake. Patrick Moorhead agrees the acquisition aligns perfectly with Google's goal of providing rich analytics tools that pull data from disparate sources.
Kurian highlights that organizations struggle to operationalize business intelligence across different systems, and Looker solves this by providing a single analytics foundation. By integrating Looker while preserving its multi-cloud nature, Google delivers a tool that gives customers a unified way to access and visualize data regardless of where that data lives.