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Re: Google’s David Girouard on the company’s cloud computing ‘perception problem’

@mattmcb — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:19:29 -0000

How could anyone think Google isn't reliable?

Re: Google’s David Girouard on the company’s cloud computing ‘perception problem’

LEADSExplorer — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:09:27 -0000

The problem of Google is that Amazon (AWS) stole/snapped up their market.
They are not the leader although they have been into B2B business since ever.
Whereas Amazon is B2C business and changed over to B2B for the AWS (S3 and EC2).

Microsoft has a strong foothold in the business of medium sized companies, thus likely to get that part of the business.

Re: Google’s David Girouard on the company’s cloud computing ‘perception problem’

Alex Popescu — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:30:58 -0000

Leaving aside the obvious fact that Google services outage has a much bigger impact than in-house outages (which are not very often operated by real SLAs -- by the way I don't think I've seen a Google SLA so far, but I might have missed it), I'd like to point out that there were quite a few cases when their Apps Status Dashboard was malfunctioning. Secondly, most of their post outage clarifications are not offering any useful information (it's not about the details per se, but about showing transparency and trying to show that you care and that you'll try to avoid further issues: here is a comparison on Amazon, Microsoft and Google reactions http://themindstorms.blogsp....