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Google Compute Engine is now Generally Available

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Re: Google Compute Engine is now Generally Available

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Post by philip1209 »

This strikes me as an odd time to release the platform. My impression is that most companies avoid major infrastructure changes during the holiday season to maintain uptime for the surge in revenue. Even for B2B companies, it is the final month of the quarter. I would think that early January would be the best time launch and promote a new service that requires major infrastructure changes by clients.

Re: Google Compute Engine is now Generally Available

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Post by shuzchen »

People looking to test this out might want to try apply for the starterpack (https://cloud.google.com/developers/starterpack/ promo code brdo-in). I know a few people with pretty vague ideas that still got accepted, although I'm not sure if they'll be more selective now that the service is generally available.

Re: Google Compute Engine is now Generally Available

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Post by k3n »

philip1209 wrote: post #3

This strikes me as an odd time to release the platform. My impression is that most companies avoid major infrastructure changes during the holiday season to maintain uptime for the surge in revenue. Even for B2B companies, it is the final month of the quarter. I would think that early January would be the best time launch and promote a new service that requires major infrastructure changes by clients.

You'd be surprised, for a lot of industries -- and for select departments of others -- the holidays are a source of relative slowdown. I've done more than one migration, roll-out, or refresh over the holidays, since there's usually less users to concurrently support (and thus downtime is less disruptive).
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