Alphabet ([[GOOG]]/[[GOOGL]]) announces a deal to buy Looker for $2.6 billion, hammering Domo (DOMO), Splunk (SPLK), and Tableau (DATA), while Cloudera (CLDR) earnings were not well accepted; the Looker deal did not help. More on that later. What I do want to highlight is that Thomas Kurian, the new head of Google Cloud, is making bold moves in bringing more capability to the cloud offerings. What I think is very interesting is Kurian making a point of Looker working with all major cloud platforms, including Azure and AWS. I suspect that this belies a really