Thomas Kurian, the incoming head of Google Cloud and formerly president of product development at Oracle, speaks at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Sept. 24, 2013. Google is restructuring its Cloud group internally, which will include eliminating some roles, a Google spokesperson confirmed to CNBC. "We made the difficult, but necessary decision to notify a small number of employees that their roles will be eliminated." The restructuring comes as CEO Thomas Kurian has been at the helm for one year. The company would not comment on how many employees are affected or which areas within the Cloud business would be affected, only saying it is working with internal "mobility teams" to find the employees new roles within the company.

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