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> Let's hope so for their sake. Personally I'll believe it when I see it. You can hire all the sales reps you want... If your top leadership doesn't understand

> Let's hope so for their sake. Personally I'll believe it when I see it. You can hire all the sales reps you want... If your top leadership doesn't understand or respect enterprise buyers, or know how to scale the entreprise distribution "machine", then it won't matter. Diane Greene knows the enterprise... she has hired an experienced team on the product, sales, and marketing side. > I've spoken to several enterprise IT buyers - commanding billions of dollars in aggregate budget - comparing the benefits of AWS and Azure. When I asked them "what about Google Cloud", the room burst out laughing. This happened several times. I too can play the anecdote game - I have senior relationships with at least a few major international banks with aggregate budgets in the billions, and they are betting on GCP. I also know a very large bank betting on AWS, and a couple are straddling the fence with multi-cloud between their on-prem, Azure, and GCP. I see Azure commitments in a big way in insurance. Of course, it depends what you're trying to do as to which cloud is the better fit. We saved a pile of money moving our AWS workloads to GCP and got better performance for it. I think laughing at Google is a mistake, but clearly they have work to do.

zapita 9y ago
> I have senior relationships with at least a few major international banks with aggregate budgets in the billions, and they are betting on GCP If several banks are in fact betting on GCP as a primary provider, that would be encouraging news. I will believe it when I see it! Do you expect any of them to be referenceable anytime soon? By the way: I myself think GCP is great, and I use it for various non-enterprise projects. It looks like we agree that they have a lot of work to do.
- parasubvert 9y ago
  There are a couple that are public (ie. conference talks and/or tweets) about their use I believe but likely aren’t references... only one I see on GCP’s website is a subsidiary of BNP Paribas. That said, take a look at Google Summit Toronto’s schedule, or a glance on YouTube for google cloud banking for another.

zapita 9y ago

> I have senior relationships with at least a few major international banks with aggregate budgets in the billions, and they are betting on GCP If several banks are in fact betting on GCP as a primary provider, that would be encouraging news. I will believe it when I see it! Do you expect any of them to be referenceable anytime soon? By the way: I myself think GCP is great, and I use it for various non-enterprise projects. It looks like we agree that they have a lot of work to do.

parasubvert 9y ago
There are a couple that are public (ie. conference talks and/or tweets) about their use I believe but likely aren’t references... only one I see on GCP’s website is a subsidiary of BNP Paribas. That said, take a look at Google Summit Toronto’s schedule, or a glance on YouTube for google cloud banking for another.