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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
by 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 agoMeh, 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 agoHow many of those data centers were already there for their advertising business?
- apsdsm 7y agoTo 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.