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Only way Google perhaps can take a lead in Cloud is if they invent a new paradigm - quantum cloud or something (just to illustrate the point). That is, change t
by achow 7y ago
Only way Google perhaps can take a lead in Cloud is if they invent a new paradigm - quantum cloud or something (just to illustrate the point). That is, change the game and not change themselves for the current game.
Google just can't compete with hustlers like Amazon, Alibaba and to some extent Microsoft (ex-Oracle leader not withstanding). Cloud business is commodity operational business.
- streetcat1 7y agoThey do. its called AutoML.
- sneak 7y agoJust spitballing: what if they rented compute based on sandboxed access to the huge trove of behavioral and activity data they have on their users (which amounts to everyone who uses the web)? It would be the ultimate differentiator. The only potential competitor would be Facebook, who doesn’t offer cloud services.
- londons_explore 7y agoIt's next to impossible to do this at scale while maintaining user privacy. There are some differential privacy techniques which might help, but so far they're rather hard to use and there is no tooling for such things.
- solarkraft 7y agoThe trick is to not care.
- sneak 7y agoThe United States has no data protection laws to speak of (over this kind of data). Renting/selling access to run queries over this sort of data is entirely legal. All it would take is another half dozen years of our society continuing to move in the direction it has already on privacy. It may just be de jure legal though; I bet it would be shown to be de facto illegal once people started mining data from federal judges and legislators...