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> 1) The article. That only means that the team's head is on the chopping block. That's all. > 2) How Google treats all of its other "underperforming" product
by rumanator 7y ago
> 1) The article.
That only means that the team's head is on the chopping block. That's all.
> 2) How Google treats all of its other "underperforming" products.
This assertion is utterly absurd as you're describing the world's third largest cloud provider, and thus one of the dominant players, of being "underperforming" and justifying pulling the plug on a 8 billion-dolar a year business.
- scarface74 7y agoGoogle is far from the world’s “third largest provider” https://www.techrepublic.com/article/public-cloud-market-share-numbers-keep-missing-the-point/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/public-cloud-market-sha... As far as the manager “being on the chopping block” the article talks about “losing funding”. $8 billion in revenue means nothing. Is it profitable? This is the same company that left an entire city’s streets in disarray after abandoning Google Fiber. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/google-fiber-exits-louisville-after-shoddy-installs-left-exposed-wires-in-roads/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/googl...
- bananabreakfast 7y agoJesus, talk about hyperbole. "Far"? Trailing a couple percent behind Alibaba, a chinese only hosting provider? Get real
- scarface74 7y agoLet’s take the raw numbers then. 4.8% compared to 47%.
- jhoechtl 7y agoAt what growth rate?
- scarface74 7y agoNot high enough for management obviously. Also, is it growing profitably.
- ShinTakuya 7y agoAlibaba operates and serves internationally.
- rumanator 7y ago> Google is far from the world’s “third largest provider” You're being a bit disingenuous. Your own source states quite clearly that Google is in the 3rd spot and arguably, if you cherry-pick results, you can place it in 4th. By cherry-picked results I'm referring to posting 2018 results and ignoring how GCP's revenue doubled in the last 18 months, nearly matching Azure's revenue.
- scarface74 7y agoSo let’s look at the raw marketshare. It’s 10% of AWS. Also revenue != profit. If it was profitable enough would management be complaining?
- samspenc 7y agoI believe the 8 billion a year number includes its G-Suite products. My understanding is that GCP itself makes only around 1-2 billion a year (excluding G-Suite). That doesn't seem enough to cover the CapEx, OpEx and engineering costs they are sinking into keeping GCP running. Only Amazon breaks out its AWS numbers completely today, but the other cloud providers bundle their cloud computing numbers together with other "cloud" numbers, so it makes it very confusing to keep track of what numbers people are talking about.
- oaiey 7y agoIs not Amazon also doing this. Just that no one uses Amazon's Word (I just know it exists do not know even its name) :)