Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

Post by localhost » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 6:02 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #6

The Information is a fantastic source, and I subscribed to support the excellent original reporting that comes out of it. Most of the news will get disseminated by other blogs and news journals in the next day or so, but The Information is pretty good if you want tech news first. A big nugget from behind the paywall: "This person said the group’s leaders didn’t explicitly state what would happen to the cloud division…

Post by zelly » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 6:02 PM UTC

harryh wrote: post #85

Despegar wrote: post #7

I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I saw this headline on Twitter. It's just kisses fingers . So now that everyone knows they are waffling on whether to stay in the business (and have a deadline), Microsoft and Amazon just need to increase the competitive intensity for the next few years to drive Google out and instead of cloud computing being an oligopoly it'll be a duopoly. If you're a startup you should serio…

If you're a startup you should seriously consider colocation for as many of your workloads as possible The vast majority of startups do not succeed or fail based upon their ability to control their datacenter spend. They succeed or fail based upon their ability to attract customers and grow revenue. Colocating and managing your own servers instead of taking advantage of the ease of using the cloud will only be a dist…

Post by scarface74 » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 6:03 PM UTC

raiyu wrote: post #40

The crazy part about this is that in the meeting of setting targets one option that came up was folding the cloud unit entirely. And this was already after billions invested. I don't really believe that they will leave the cloud wars, but still goes to show you the scale and profitability of their ad business and how central it is that even after billions of invested they can still decide to shutter something. Doesn'…

Post by rb808 » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 6:04 PM UTC

Despegar wrote: post #7

I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I saw this headline on Twitter. It's just kisses fingers . So now that everyone knows they are waffling on whether to stay in the business (and have a deadline), Microsoft and Amazon just need to increase the competitive intensity for the next few years to drive Google out and instead of cloud computing being an oligopoly it'll be a duopoly. If you're a startup you should serio…

Post by jethro_tell » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 6:05 PM UTC

zelly wrote: post #93

harryh wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're a startup you should seriously consider colocation for as many of your workloads as possible The vast majority of startups do not succeed or fail based upon their ability to control their datacenter spend. They succeed or fail based upon their ability to attract customers and grow revenue. Colocating and managing your own servers instead of taking advantage of the ease of using the cloud will only be a dist…

The person you have to hire to manage that would cost 10x a public cloud bill