Google compute has taken some awesome strides in the last year. I now prefer GCE over AWS, because of pricing (per minute) and simplicity. AWS quickly can get overwhelming and overly complex.
I don't understand why the reporters hold Google in such high regard, particularly in the cloud business. Here is a statement from the article:<p>> "At the same time, analysts say, the company’s offerings in cloud development services — computing, storage, data analytics and others — are already comparable to Amazon’s."<p>AWS is far far ahead of GC and it is in no way comparable. Plus the ecosystem around AWS has evolved and is much more stable. There are a lot of articles explaining "how to fix X or how to do Y" with AWS than with GC.<p>I also don't think Google will ever have the level of customer obsession that Amazon has. Your account got hacked? No worries, AWS will waive the fee, but I honestly don't think Google will ever do that.<p>Google is a technology company and might outrun Amazon in terms of technical superiority, but I don't think they can simply outrun Amazon in cloud business.
Diane was 43 when she founded VMware, and 56(?) when she started Bebop. That's encouraging. Does anybody have details about her background in the years 1978 to 1998?
She gave a talk at Startup School 2013: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEeFxq2X_c" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEeFxq2X_c</a>
I'm glad to hear that "the cloud" is becoming less likely to mean "the Amazon cloud". Monocultures are dangerous, and I doubt that any monoculture is quite as dangerous -- or at least as unexpected -- as a monoculture for providing distribution and resilience.
Relational Databases is one key area where Google Cloud can improve. Adding support for the most used databases (Maria, Postgres and may be Google own version of SQL-like AWS Aurora to support large data stores) and easing the migration path for companies to move their databases into Cloud can ease a lot of customer pain. This can accelerate the migration to Cloud much faster. It is very difficult for companies to move to Cloud and adopt NoSQL stores simultaneously.
An easy area of improvement is documentation, samples etc. They are seriously lagging behind AWS and Azure. Becomes hard to choose Google because the cost of learning is higher.
Did Diane's bebop even launch? I can't find their website. It is kind of frustrating that everybody involved (employees, investors) in bebop are getting a payday, without really putting in much work, or verifying their ideas. Just leaves a sour taste in my mouth (old boys network) as a two-time failed entrepreneur.