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> Google is struggling with their cloud business. While what they offer is technically superior to all their competitors, they don’t have the sales team You su
by mbesto 7y ago
> Google is struggling with their cloud business. While what they offer is technically superior to all their competitors, they don’t have the sales team
You sure about that? GCP has hired (or acquihired - Diane Greene for example) sales/management execs from all of the big boys in the industry (VMWare, SAP, Oracle, etc).
1) I see no indication it's "failing", just lagging behind the others.
2) My theory as to why its been lagging behind AWS/Azure is because of trust. AWS was first and is now the "no one got fired for using AWS" of cloud computing. Microsoft is simply entrenched. Oh you want to migrate your on-premise Hyper-V Windows OS's to Azure, we'll gladly help you click this button. Google is notorious for lack of "can I call a person?" support and I think that's permeated itself into its enterprise sales.
- nonfamous 7y agoDiane Greene was fired.
- fragmede 7y agoGCP did $9 billion in revenue in 2019. Amazon and Microsoft may be ahead of them, but saying GCP is "struggling" is a weird way to put it.
- jedberg 7y agoGCP did not do $9B in revenue. Google Cloud did. That includes GApps. And by struggling I mean struggling to keep up with Amazon and Microsoft, whose cloud computing units are significantly larger and growing faster in both absolute dollars and by percentage. In other words they are behind and falling father behind.
- mbesto 7y ago> larger and growing faster in both absolute dollars and by percentage. Where are those specific numbers? AFAIK they don't split it out from all of Google Cloud.
- jedberg 7y agoThey don't break them out publicly but they appear in private analyst reports, which are generally very well researched and pretty accurate.
- mbesto 7y agoWhich are where? Source? EDIT: I did some quick googling and no one seems to share anything. So where are you getting your guidance may I ask? https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/05/googles-still-not-sharing-cloud-revenue/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/05/googles-still-not-sharing-...
- jedberg 7y agoFrom private analyst reports. You basically have to know someone to get them (or pay a truckload of money). Sorry I can't give you a better source.
- mbesto 7y agoI'm well aware of their model. So do you personally have access to one? Can you provide a specific number? Or is this all conjecture?