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And that’s why I’m willing to give them my money. Google’s cloud offering needs to be considered a hobby like all their non-search activity

jmb12686 7y ago
Fair enough, I agree Enterprise workloads are better off relying on Enterprise class products.
heybrendan 7y ago
Huh? A hobby? Transcript from Alphabet Q1 2019 Earnings Call; April 29, 2019 [1] > Sundar Pichai, CEO Google: > We are also deeply committed to becoming the most customer-centric cloud provider for enterprise customers, and making it easier for companies to do business with us thanks to new contracting, pricing, and more. Today, 9 of the world's 10 largest media companies, 7 of the 10 largest retailers, and more than half of the 10 largest companies in manufacturing, financial services, communications, and software use Google Cloud. > Some of the companies that we announced at Next included: The American Cancer Society and McKesson in Healthcare; Media and Entertainment companies like USA Today and Viacom; Consumer Packaged Goods brands like Unilever; Manufacturing and Industrial companies like Samsung and UPS; and Public Sector organizations like Australia Post. > Finally, to support our customers' growth, we also announced the addition of two new Cloud regions in Seoul and Salt Lake City, which we plan to open in 2020. These new Cloud regions will build on our current footprint of 19 Cloud regions and 58 data centers around the world. This doesn't seem like just a hobby to Google. [1] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2019_Q1_Earnings_Transcript.pdf https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2019_Q1_Earnings_Transcr...
- peteretep 7y ago
  Meh, I care about actions and not random words
  - 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y ago
    > our current footprint of 19 Cloud regions and 58 data centers around the world Do you understand how expensive this action is?
    - toast0 7y ago
      How many of those data centers were already there for their advertising business?
- apsdsm 7y ago
  To be fair, given their history of shutting things down, it’s easy to see anything that isn’t selling ads as a hobby for google. Even if that’s not the case, it can be hard to shake that gut-level feeling. I suspect that’ll be the hardest thing for most people to get over when considering a google stack.
cwp 7y ago
Every now and then I consider using GCP for a new project, because their tech is obviously better. I never do though, because every time, I stumble across somebody with a horror story. You know how it goes. They built their business on Google's platform, and it was a dream until some AI detected a pattern of activity it didn't like and they were excommunicated. The app was shut down, the website stopped getting traffic, and all they money they had charged customers via Google Pay was frozen. No appeals, emails go to /dev/null and after a month of campaigning on social media they finally get an email from an intern saying that after review, they won't be changing the automated decision. No thanks.
izacus 7y ago
Last I checked, Cloud is pretty much the only other thing besides Ads that makes any money at Google :)

jmb12686 7y ago

Fair enough, I agree Enterprise workloads are better off relying on Enterprise class products.

heybrendan 7y ago

Huh? A hobby? Transcript from Alphabet Q1 2019 Earnings Call; April 29, 2019 [1] > Sundar Pichai, CEO Google: > We are also deeply committed to becoming the most customer-centric cloud provider for enterprise customers, and making it easier for companies to do business with us thanks to new contracting, pricing, and more. Today, 9 of the world's 10 largest media companies, 7 of the 10 largest retailers, and more than half of the 10 largest companies in manufacturing, financial services, communications, and software use Google Cloud. > Some of the companies that we announced at Next included: The American Cancer Society and McKesson in Healthcare; Media and Entertainment companies like USA Today and Viacom; Consumer Packaged Goods brands like Unilever; Manufacturing and Industrial companies like Samsung and UPS; and Public Sector organizations like Australia Post. > Finally, to support our customers' growth, we also announced the addition of two new Cloud regions in Seoul and Salt Lake City, which we plan to open in 2020. These new Cloud regions will build on our current footprint of 19 Cloud regions and 58 data centers around the world. This doesn't seem like just a hobby to Google. [1] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2019_Q1_Earnings_Transcript.pdf https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2019_Q1_Earnings_Transcr...

peteretep 7y ago
Meh, I care about actions and not random words
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y ago
  > our current footprint of 19 Cloud regions and 58 data centers around the world Do you understand how expensive this action is?
  - toast0 7y ago
    How many of those data centers were already there for their advertising business?
apsdsm 7y ago
To be fair, given their history of shutting things down, it’s easy to see anything that isn’t selling ads as a hobby for google. Even if that’s not the case, it can be hard to shake that gut-level feeling. I suspect that’ll be the hardest thing for most people to get over when considering a google stack.

cwp 7y ago

Every now and then I consider using GCP for a new project, because their tech is obviously better. I never do though, because every time, I stumble across somebody with a horror story. You know how it goes. They built their business on Google's platform, and it was a dream until some AI detected a pattern of activity it didn't like and they were excommunicated. The app was shut down, the website stopped getting traffic, and all they money they had charged customers via Google Pay was frozen. No appeals, emails go to /dev/null and after a month of campaigning on social media they finally get an email from an intern saying that after review, they won't be changing the automated decision. No thanks.

izacus 7y ago

Last I checked, Cloud is pretty much the only other thing besides Ads that makes any money at Google :)