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Google Picks Diane Greene to Expand Its Cloud Business

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Re: Google Picks Diane Greene to Expand Its Cloud Business

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Post by devsquid »

obulpathi wrote: post #7

Relational Databases is one key area where Google Cloud can improve. Adding support for the most used databases (Maria, Postgres and may be Google own version of SQL-like AWS Aurora to support large data stores) and easing the migration path for companies to move their databases into Cloud can ease a lot of customer pain. This can accelerate the migration to Cloud much faster. It is very difficult for companies to mo…

Their managed SQL service doesn't support Postgresql and POSTGIS, its the only thing stopping me from move over to GCN.

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Post by obulpathi »

mikecb wrote: post #10
obulpathi wrote: post #7

Relational Databases is one key area where Google Cloud can improve. Adding support for the most used databases (Maria, Postgres and may be Google own version of SQL-like AWS Aurora to support large data stores) and easing the migration path for companies to move their databases into Cloud can ease a lot of customer pain. This can accelerate the migration to Cloud much faster. It is very difficult for companies to mo…

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/introduction

I know. Compared to Amazon's offering of MySQL, MariaDb, Aurora, SQL Server and Oracle, Google MySQL offering looks not so good. It's hard to persuade everyone to migrate to MySQL. Everyone has their own reason to use different databases.

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nodesocket wrote: post #12

Google compute has taken some awesome strides in the last year. I now prefer GCE over AWS, because of pricing (per minute) and simplicity. AWS quickly can get overwhelming and overly complex.

Pricing is fine. Tech support is a joke. I wish I could pay more for Google to actually offer good support. We tried GCE for a while but it just didn't cut it in terms of mean response time to questions. AWS really leads on support.

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Post by obulpathi »

nodesocket wrote: post #12

Google compute has taken some awesome strides in the last year. I now prefer GCE over AWS, because of pricing (per minute) and simplicity. AWS quickly can get overwhelming and overly complex.

Not just Compute, Google Network, Cloud Storage, Container Engine (Kubernetese is OpenSource, so you can run it internally too), Cloud Shell, Pub/Sub, their new Cloud Console, are awesome.

Re: Google Picks Diane Greene to Expand Its Cloud Business

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Post by nodesocket »

Did Diane's bebop even launch? I can't find their website. It is kind of frustrating that everybody involved (employees, investors) in bebop are getting a payday, without really putting in much work, or verifying their ideas. Just leaves a sour taste in my mouth (old boys network) as a two-time failed entrepreneur.

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Post by x5n1 »

nodesocket wrote: post #16

Did Diane's bebop even launch? I can't find their website. It is kind of frustrating that everybody involved (employees, investors) in bebop are getting a payday, without really putting in much work, or verifying their ideas. Just leaves a sour taste in my mouth (old boys network) as a two-time failed entrepreneur.

It is who you know.

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Post by boulos »

slashink wrote: post #14
nodesocket wrote: post #12

Google compute has taken some awesome strides in the last year. I now prefer GCE over AWS, because of pricing (per minute) and simplicity. AWS quickly can get overwhelming and overly complex.

Pricing is fine. Tech support is a joke. I wish I could pay more for Google to actually offer good support. We tried GCE for a while but it just didn't cut it in terms of mean response time to questions. AWS really leads on support.

We do have paid support tiers (https://cloud.google.com/support/) with explicit time-to-response targets. Which were you using?

Disclaimer: I work on GCE.

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