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Is this a sign Google is not going to compete in Cloud anymore? Can't see how this is not going hurt customer confidence.
by tanilama 7y ago
Is this a sign Google is not going to compete in Cloud anymore?
Can't see how this is not going hurt customer confidence.
- filoleg 7y agoConsidering all the things Google has done in the past year to hurt customer confidence in GCP, this one isn’t that bad at all. I definitely couldn’t keep myself from wondering what kind of people run their PR, when they released a post late last year, saying that unless GCP hits the financial target $X by 2023, its funding will be noticeably cut. That was literally a release of a self-fulfilling prophecy in the wild.
- busterarm 7y agoAs a google cloud customer, the feature request backlog is long, almost everything useful is in Beta and doesn't have an SLA, and the Support is _absolutely useless_. They still have us by the balls as a customer, because some companies just will not allow you to put their data in AWS...and mostly in places where Azure is still a poor alternative (I'm looking at you, Central Germany).
- manigandham 7y agoIt's a basic reorganization of a trivial amount of jobs for a trillion dollar company. No it's not a sign that they're going to stop competing in one of the most profitable sectors that they've had an offering in for over a decade.
- tanilama 7y agoWhat I am worrying now is that Cloud is supposedly a fast growing sector they should double down on investing. This doesn't look to me as a hyper growth focus trajectory TBH
- manigandham 7y agoThey are increasing investment and are arguably the first "cloud" computing company to exist and offer a product to the public. They might not catch up to the others but it'll still be a highly profitable product suite. I don't see what there is to worry about. GCP also includes Google Maps and GSuite by the way, which have lots of customers.