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> cloud business is synergetic with Google search The funny thing is that while it's obviously synergetic, up to 2012 it was a Urs' toy project on the back-bu
by vl 8y ago
> cloud business is synergetic with Google search
The funny thing is that while it's obviously synergetic, up to 2012 it was a Urs' toy project on the back-burner. It was mostly run from SEA/KIR with MTV leadership largely oblivious. There were gems like this, for example: once they forgot to cover cloud organization in the company OKR meetings broadcasted to all employees :) Only when they realized that external clouds grow so fast that Big G can loose it's preferential access to volume discounts GCP suddenly became the priority (to detriment of TI, which now largely is after-thought).
I'm convinced that Google going to cloud too late is going to be seen in history books in the same light as Microsoft/IE fiasco.
- didip 8y agoWhat are these abbreviations? SEA/KIR, MTV, OKR, and TI.
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- mejari 8y agoSEA/KIR is Seattle/Kirkland, a main Google headquarters, MTV is Mountain View, the Google headquarters. OKR is Objectives and Key Results, a measurement system for company/individual goals. Not sure about TI, but GCP is Google Cloud Platform.
- cletus 8y agoTI = Technical Infrastructure If memory serves this was the PA (Product Area) originally responsible for GCP before Cloud became its own PA. But TI was headed by Urs and is responsible for the internal Google infrastructure (Colossus, BigTable, Spanner, etc).
- vl 8y agoTI is Technical Infrastructure, organization responsible for management/storage/database/analytics/scheduling, etc. software in datacenters. TI and Cloud used to be different branches in the same PA (product area), but TI consumed Cloud Org once cloud became a priority and now it's a single organization (itself a part of PA which also includes G Suite). Since external-facing cloud projects have very simple and transparent metrics (unlike internal TI projects), Cloud/TI organization mostly concentrates on cloud projects nowadays.
- andybak 8y ago> SEA/KIR, MTV, OKR, and TI Please don't do this. It's alienating for people not in your gang.
- djsumdog 8y agoI get SEA only because I know the city. MTV makes me thing of that channel that use to have music videos in the 90s, before it became the shitty reality TV network, OKR makes it sound like you misspelled Chicago's airport and TI makes calculators.
- isoprophlex 8y agoMy god this abbreviated office gossip makes it sound like you're discussing some alternate version of the church of scientology