Comments on: Google’s David Girouard on the company’s cloud computing ‘perception problem’ http://venturebeat.com/2009/06/09/googles-david-girouard-on-the-companys-cloud-computing-perception-problem/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:19:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: homepage http://venturebeat.com/2009/06/09/googles-david-girouard-on-the-companys-cloud-computing-perception-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-864308 homepage Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:19:29 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=108403#comment-864308 How could anyone think Google isn't reliable? How could anyone think Google isn't reliable?

]]> By: LEADSExplorer http://venturebeat.com/2009/06/09/googles-david-girouard-on-the-companys-cloud-computing-perception-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-858544 LEADSExplorer Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:09:27 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=108403#comment-858544 The problem of Google is that Amazon (AWS) stole/snapped up their market.<br>They are not the leader although they have been into B2B business since ever.<br>Whereas Amazon is B2C business and changed over to B2B for the AWS (S3 and EC2).<br><br>Microsoft has a strong foothold in the business of medium sized companies, thus likely to get that part of the business. 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.

]]> By: Alex Popescu http://venturebeat.com/2009/06/09/googles-david-girouard-on-the-companys-cloud-computing-perception-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-858542 Alex Popescu Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:30:58 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=108403#comment-858542 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 <a href="http://themindstorms.blogspot.com/2009/04/different-ways-to-react-to-outages-in.html" rel="nofollow">http://themindstorms.blogspot.com/2009/04/diffe...</a>). 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.blogspot.com/2009/04/diffe...).

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