Azure, and of course AWS, appear to be crushing GCP (in market share at least - which is arguably the best metric)... Why is this? What does the future hold? Is this article believable? https://itnext.io/where-google-cloud-is-going-wrong-729e78f6c160
Says the Amazon guy. In all fairness though, I really look at the two clouds like this. AWS is the land of potential use cases and GCP is the land of academic conformity.
I work for gcp, only been here a year and already looking elsewhere...so is everyone competent on my team and yes, the hiring bar is embarrassingly low. Gcp is the new old msft.
In his blind fanboyism the author forgot Google has been terrible with data privacy. They tend to regard anything on their platform as their data. Google also likes to dabble in everything. If I’m running trade secrets for my tech company or marketing data for retail I can’t risk google looking at that data for their own purposes. This is also why smart companies don’t use Google Apps.
While google cloud is still lagging aws or azure, google is seriously ramping up its gcp business. Since Q42017, cloud is bringing in 1B in revenues per quarter. Capex in cloud for google is much higher than amazon or msft both in absolute dollars and as a % of sales. Google is also hiring aggressively for cloud. Netflix and Spotify have recently moved to hosting their services on gcp. I think the next 6-10 months are crucial of google wants to gain ground in the cloud business.
AWS has first mover advantage. Also, it's hard to compete with AWS support when their support people can and regularly do page any engineer to debug some bullshit issue (source: had to deal with some of those bs pages when I worked for AWS). Microsoft is already heavily ingrained in Enterprise sails with most companies which helps them.
Hopefully we change our eng culture to compete.
Microsoft is ingrained in "desktop" enterprise. Their server products were laughably bad and no serious enterprise ever trusted the server side. I see lot of MS guys beating their "enterprise" chest here which is plain rubbish.
That article is old. While you don't use old stats to discuss, it's a fair question and almost still valid... only diff is that MSFT has gained much better ground in the past 8 or so months. And my simple answer to the point in question is Enterprise-class. GCP simply lacks it and they need to do a lot more groundwork before they invest in huge DCs like the other two leaders in Cloud. Ground work = Innovation, customer confidence/pipeline, security (image) bump, investor lineup etc. Investing in data centers is the easy part.
It’s prices suck, that’s why.
azure is pounding both aws and gcp the last 2 quarters or so. It’s actually raising some concerns here
I have to say. I’m surprised to here this from an Amazonian. Go on, tell us more about why you think that and what you’re hearing. ???
This dude is on PIP for sure
The same reason why BING failed. To gain market share you must be far better than your competitor. GCP is just playing catchup just like MS Was.
Author is right. Google has no clue of enterprise sales & marketing execution. I love working at Google, so all of us that concluded everything in the article stay patient and don't bother pointing out how to 'help' anymore, since sr mgt does not want to listen. It's easy to realize the culture is great to rest and vest. Only frustration when you try to compete in an org that does not GET the game of enterprise s&m.
Gcp is for developers by developers and that’s not what enterprises want. Additionally their support is a bit of a joke. Their technology is probably the best and if I was a startup I’d use them, but for enterprise they don’t pass the ‘nobody ever gets fired for choosing IBM’ test...
Even for a startup, I would argue they will go for AWS.
True, but it’s more feasible for a startup since gcp does have some nice accelerators, it’s cheaper and cost matters for a startup. The problem is google is counting on multicloud for enterprises and I am skeptical how many companies will really do multicloud vs just a 95/5 split of cloud spend.... and gcp will be the 5%