Google launches Public Datasets program

Re:Google launches Public Datasets program by dcdevito on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @07:16AM (#11388426)

Sorry Google but my trust in cloud solutions reside in AWS and Azure.

Why? Because when Amazon and Microsoft announce something I know there's a good chance it will still exist 24 months later

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Re:Google launches Public Datasets program by vgt on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @11:21AM (#11389925)

This narrative gets repeated time and time again, and it really doesn't hold up to even surface debate:

- Google TI and Cloud merged. Same teams. Per Urs Holzle in Jan2014

- Just last week Sundar (CEO), Eric Schmidt (chairman), Jeff Dean, Urs Holzle, and Diane were on stage talking about how they spent $10 billion last year investing in infrastructure and how serious Google is about cloud (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgWHeT_OwHc&list=PLIivdWyY5s...)

- In many cases, publically available technologies are actually replacing internal technologies (BigQuery and Dremel, Dataflow and FlumeJava/Millwheel for example).

- Disney, Coca Cola, Snapchat, Spotify, Home Depot are just some of the customers running on Google Cloud. It'd be very foolish to abandon these.

- If you watch the day two GCP NEXT keynote, you'll see how Google is the cloud leader in environmental responsibility and open source. We're the good guys :) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axhdIa_co2o&list=PLIivdWyY5s...)

Happy to debate further!

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