In 2020, the standard boilerplate for describing Google may be as a cloud company, rather than an Internet-advertising company, if a top executive has his way.
That’s because Urs Holzle, the company’s senior vice president of infrastructure and one of Google’s earliest employees, thinks cloud computing -- which involves renting out computing power and software over the Internet -- has the potential to be larger than its multibillion-dollar ad business today.
