Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?
by fragmede on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:49PM
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GCP did $9 billion in revenue in 2019. Amazon and Microsoft may be ahead of them, but saying GCP is "struggling" is a weird way to put it.
Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?
by jedberg on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:54PM
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GCP did not do $9B in revenue. Google Cloud did. That includes GApps.
And by struggling I mean struggling to keep up with Amazon and Microsoft, whose cloud computing units are significantly larger and growing faster in both absolute dollars and by percentage.
In other words they are behind and falling father behind.
Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?
by mbesto on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:56PM
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> larger and growing faster in both absolute dollars and by percentage.
Where are those specific numbers? AFAIK they don't split it out from all of Google Cloud.
Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?
by jedberg on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @12:37AM
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They don't break them out publicly but they appear in private analyst reports, which are generally very well researched and pretty accurate.
Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?
by mbesto on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @12:48PM
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Which are where? Source?
EDIT: I did some quick googling and no one seems to share anything. So where are you getting your guidance may I ask?
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/05/googles-still-not-sharing-...
Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?
by jedberg on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @01:43PM
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From private analyst reports. You basically have to know someone to get them (or pay a truckload of money). Sorry I can't give you a better source.
You sure about that? GCP has hired (or acquihired - Diane Greene for example) sales/management execs from all of the big boys in the industry (VMWare, SAP, Oracle, etc).
1) I see no indication it's "failing", just lagging behind the others.
2) My theory as to why its been lagging behind AWS/Azure is because of trust. AWS was first and is now the "no one got fired for using AWS" of cloud computing. Microsoft is simply entrenched. Oh you want to migrate your on-premise Hyper-V Windows OS's to Azure, we'll gladly help you click this button. Google is notorious for lack of "can I call a person?" support and I think that's permeated itself into its enterprise sales.