I saw a tweet this morning that pointed me to this article.
Google To Challenge Amazon, Microsoft In Cloud Computing War
This comes hot on the heels of this article.
Google dumps ISP email support. Virgin Media takes ball, stomps home
I use a lot of Google services and I like them. Having said that, I just can’t bring myself to take their Google Cloud Platform seriously. It’s not that I don’t believe they have the capability to do cloud. The are Google after all. 🙂 It’s more about trusting their services will exist in the future. If they are happy to dump 4.6 million email customers in one shot, why should I believe they give a crap about my IaaS stuff?
This kind of behaviour is not new from Google. They have taken an axe to many services before, but this seems so much more dramatic and significant from a company that is pushing their public cloud agenda.
Now it all comes down to money, and I guess Google couldn’t make enough off the this ISP email customer, but it is still a worrying signal. People should always have an exit strategy for every cloud project, but with Google it seems like it should be a bigger priority.
Maybe I’m just being paranoid. Maybe I’m not. I just feel unnerved.
Cheers
Tim…
