CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner

Re:CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner by relaunched on Monday April 13, 2015 @01:19PM (#9368952)

I wonder if this is one of those strategic deals that would lead to an acquisition. With the push surrounding cloud and Google actively competing hard in this space, it would make a lot of sense.

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Re:CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner by dmix on Monday April 13, 2015 @02:42PM (#9369517)

Oh wow, Google is already on every site with Analytics, imagine if they were also the SSL host/WAF/CDN/DNS host for every major property?

It would fit in well with their silent yet never ending reach across the internet.

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Re:CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner by bigiain on Monday April 13, 2015 @06:25PM (#9370913)

And now we start to wonder even more - is Google just an unexpectedly profitable NSA front?

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Re:CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner by ryanlol on Monday April 13, 2015 @02:42PM (#9369520)

Problem is that (besides for the brand) Cloudflare really has nothing to offer for Google. Google has spent the last 20 years solving the same problems CF is aiming to solve, they've even got a competing service Google PageSpeed that does exactly what CF does, except better (in my personal experience.).

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Re:CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner by rgbrenner on Monday April 13, 2015 @02:47PM (#9369556)

they've even got a competing service Google PageSpeed that does exactly what CF does

You mean this service? https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service

PageSpeed Service is in a limited field trial, and is not currently accepting new signups

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Re:CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner by ryanlol on Monday April 13, 2015 @02:49PM (#9369572)

Oh, I didn't know they closed signups. I've been using it for some personal projects for a good while (Since 2011 or so?) now.

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Re:CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner by rgbrenner on Monday April 13, 2015 @03:20PM (#9369787)

Yes, announced in 2011. Looks like it was launched with limited signups: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/07/page-spee...

If google still doesnt think it has a marketable product after 4 years.. maybe a cloudflare acquisition isn't too far fetched.

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Re:CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner by kayone on Monday April 13, 2015 @03:17PM (#9369762)

it was never really open.

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Re:CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner by nostrademons on Monday April 13, 2015 @04:05PM (#9370086)

Google sucks at productizing their infrastructure expertise. The underlying tech at Google is indeed better than CloudFlare, but CloudFlare understands marketing, ease-of-use, product simplicity, all those stuff that are necessary to get people to actually use your offering.

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Re:CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner by MichaelGG on Monday April 13, 2015 @06:07PM (#9370824)

I was amazingly surprised by Google Compute Engine. I've never used such a simple IaaS provider. Especially compared to the direction Azure's new portal is taking, GCE is refreshingly simple. EC2 is alright but still feels a lot more complicated than GCE. The UI is simpler, too.

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Re:CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner by ryanlol on Monday April 13, 2015 @04:09PM (#9370115)

I don't think they need CloudFlare for that though, they just need marketing people to sell it. I can't see CloudFlare acquisition being worth it for Google just for their marketing expertise.

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