Land O’Lakes picked Google to run the backend when it decided to launch a new application that connects a bunch of different cloud services to one another for the sake of improving farmers’ decisions.

It’s something of a surprising choice for the decades-old company. Much of the company is built on Microsoft technology, said Teddy Bekele, the vice president of IT for Land O’Lakes’s WinField division. While Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform was in the running to host the new WinField Data Silo tool, Microsoft ended up losing out to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

It’s a major win for Google, which has been trying to entice more large companies over to its cloud platform. And Land O’Lakes’s decision is emblematic of the way that companies — especially those with decades of technology history — are approaching the public cloud. 

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