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In Major Cloud Expansion, Google To Open 12 More Data Centers
Mickeycaskill writes: Google is to open 12 new data centers in the latest stage of a bitter war with rivals Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. The first two facilities to open will be in Oregon and Tokyo, both of which will open next year. The rest will follow in 2017. Google says the new locations will allow customers to run applications closer to home, boosting latency, and of course benefiting from any local data protection laws. At present, Google has just four cloud regions, meaning this expansion will quadruple its sphere of influence. "With these new regions, even more applications become candidates to run on Cloud Platform, and get the benefits of Google-level scale and industry leading price/performance," said Varun Sakalkar, Google Cloud's product manager. Two bits says those were not his exact words.
Dear boss,
This right here is why we can't compete with the major cloud providers. We have one real datacenter with two more "datacenters" in which we have less than 30 hypervisor hosts.
And you keep asking me why we can't compete with their prices, when Google just up and opens 12 new datacenters, probably with 10k servers each.
When we license an addition five TB of storage, Google just goes and builds a new multi-PB environment.
And you keep asking me why storage is so expensive, when you insist on bending over backwards and tacking it from IBM without lube.
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Sig?
boosting latency
So they are downgrading their services?
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
>Varun Sakalkar
I feel that the time when fluent Hindi will become a prerequisite for work there is not far away
Here's one weird old tip google doesn't want you to know.
You can boost your latency to the extreme, just by removing your ethernet cable!
I think they probably want the exact opposite of that.
GCP is not even close to compete with AWS or Azure. Their platform is 10 years behind. All they do is PR and trying really hard to sign big brands so the tech press writes about it to lure startups into a crappy platform that probably wont be around in 5 years.
move your biz to Google Cloud and get it slurped.
Why would I want to do that exactly?
answers on a pinhead please.
Ha-vent had a looked at your rectal pictures or had them taken yet, as slow painful death from malignant rectal polyps to you. Besides a nice release prevents not only prostate issues as well but procreation of you dim-wit, Just clean up after your self or go and gracefully into the night.
See subject: Why? You're wrong speaking in absolutes is why. Not everyone here "fits your mold". E.G.-> I'm a lettered 1st string NCAA athlete for a national champ collegiate Division II Lacrosse team who also is a (now semi-retired) software engineer for 23++ yrs. (& I was a starting defensive back for a state champion football team in highschool as well as part of a state-ranked lacrosse team).
* That's ALL long over now, but I wanted to make a point that your overly general statement doesn't cover everyone here either...
APK
P.S.=> Re-evaluate your position man - "absolutes" aren't absolute & there's ALWAYS outliers on analysis curves... apk
Now that construction is done, Google is providing jobs for 12 IT professionals! And they say these huge companies aren't hiring; hah!
How does one "benefit" from a local data protection law?
- In Australia you're subject to "mandatory data retention."
- In UK you'll be subject to "Snooper's Charter"
- In Europe you'll be more vulnerable to "the right to be forgotten"
- Anywhere outside the US you'll be more vulnerable to the NSA
Yet Google will still comply with "lawful" process in the US. Perhaps it makes sense to buy hosting in a country that's disinterested in you, like Iceland or Russia, but it seems you can only lose by involving a second country if you have no choice about the first.
Please, someone draw a diagram, and show me where the benefit is coming from.
I'm not one of those blowhards who goes about saying, "If the NSA wants onto your computer there's nothing you can do so let's end this discussion and give up on all mitigations since we can't arrive at a comforting absolute, and I have to get an absolute answer to everything." I understand one can increase the costs of attacks to make the attacker less likely to go through with them, depending on the target's value. I understand some strategies can make attacks easier to discover even if they're not easier to block, ex. "secret warrants" -> normal warrants would be an enormous improvement. but I don't understand the benefit here of involving a second country.
If Microsoft wins, that could be a benefit to go on the diagram:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corporation_v._United_States_of_America
I hope they win, but so far they're losing. Maybe they succeeded in making a secret warrant into a normal warrant? If so, can they do it every time they get a secret warrant? I doubt it. I think it's unrepeatable and worthless, even for that small mitigation.
Courts don't often seem to acknowledge limits to their own power, nor restrain themselves when retaliating toward subjects trying to impose limits.
A lot of European companies are demanding data storage jurisdiction, claiming fears of industrial espionage, but it's hard to see it as anything but fuzzy-headedness and sullen protectionism.
I've been the person "quoted" as saying something like that. Anyone with integrity will not have anything attributed to them that they wouldn't want to have said. But what you say for the record is not usually the first thing that comes out of your mouth. Anyone making a speech or an announcement will run through some phrasing, practice it on others, etc.
"Yeah, it's gonna let you have the local regulation laws, more people can run their stuff with lower latency, some of them care a lot about that, uh, even though we know it barely matters, and we'll be cheaper than the other guys, mostly." - becomes the quote you read.
I've given my colleagues good phrases to use and they use them, or they've asked me how something sounds and that's co-created.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled"