from the using-other-people's-computers dept.
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have all seen massive growth in their cloud computing businesses:
Amazon.com Inc, Microsoft Corp, Alphabet Corp's Google and Intel Corp are all putting their chips on the cloud computing business, and it is booming. All four companies posted stellar quarterly earnings on Thursday, showing the strength of the shift in corporate computing away from company-owned data centers and to the cloud.
Microsoft's Azure business nearly doubled, with year-over-year growth of 90 percent. The company does not break out revenue figures for Azure, but research firm Canalys estimates it generated $2 billion for Microsoft.
[...] Amazon Web Services is still delivering far more revenue than any of its peers. For the quarter, AWS raked in nearly $4.6 billion -- a year-over-year increase of 42 percent. AWS may have missed out on Costco, but the company secured deals with Hulu, Toyota Racing Development, and most notably, General Electric.
Google Cloud Platform landed deals with the likes of department store retailer Kohl's and payments processor PayPal. Like Microsoft, Alphabet does not break out revenue for Google Cloud Platform, but Canalys estimates the business generated $870 million in the quarter, up 76 percent year-over-year.
Also at NYT, BBC, and Seeking Alpha.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Uncle_Al on Saturday October 28 2017, @03:52PM (3 children)
And when your net goes down, you're fucked.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday October 28 2017, @04:37PM (2 children)
But we've come so far:
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(testing for extension)
Does your organization need 99.99999% uptime? Will you lose millions of dollars if you are down for 4 hours? Can you guarantee that your intranet won't fail and break everything for hours?
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Dr Spin on Saturday October 28 2017, @09:18PM (1 child)
An Intranet does not have to be a server under the CIO's desk. With hot and cold standby servers in colos in three different timezones, each with two backbone connections, I had 100% uptime for over 5 years on my own hardware. And it was not very expensive compared to the value of the data.
Currently I host my own web sites (server in closet with UPS) and manage a pretty good reliability. Current business does not need more.
Of course I cant scale up 100 fold in milliseconds. I never anticipate any need to unless I am enrolled into someone else's botnet.
OTOH, I believe Amazon, Google, Microsoft etc have all managed extensive downtime and lost data. TOS guarantees they toss you a few peanuts if they don't get it right, not that they WILL get it right. It ain't the same.
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday October 31 2017, @03:36AM
Managing your own hardware is hard.
For 99% of companies, Amazon, Google et al can provide much higher reliability than they could with self-owned hardware even if they could hire a half-decent sysadmin and rely on half-decent on-site support. No, shipping your only sysadmin via first class personnel freight every week to different colos is not viable for most companies.
I have acquaintances that have spent hours on a weekend babysitting on-site shitters to find and plug in an Ethernet cable. Yay for managing your own hardware. You are welcome to personally subject yourself to that kind of shit.
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Saturday October 28 2017, @04:37PM (2 children)
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/richest-people-in-world-forbes/ [cbsnews.com]
Take that, Bill Gates.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday October 28 2017, @04:41PM
Too bad his space company is shit compared to Musk's. 🚀🚀🚀💥 #RocketMan
Well, at least BE-4 is looking more powerful than Raptor [arstechnica.com].
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by canopic jug on Saturday October 28 2017, @05:23PM
Take that, Bill Gates.
Does that valuation include all the money he has hamstered away in is so-called charitable foundation? He still has full access to and control over that money even if is no longer taxed. The sum available there increases by billions every year.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2017, @05:33PM
> Amazon... Toyota Racing Development
There are several car companies that compete against Toyota in various kinds of motor racing, and they would be very interested to see what TRD has stored in their "cloud".
(Score: 3, Insightful) by stormreaver on Sunday October 29 2017, @03:00AM (2 children)
This just goes to show the infinite stupidity of modern business. We outsourced our email to Office365, and have had more email outages in the last year than we had for the entire prior 15 years we manage our own email.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2017, @03:47AM
Apples and oranges. There are probably better places to outsource email than MS.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2017, @03:40PM
very good
who is tracking the costs of this? clearly not finance. it shows IT is still incompetent and they havent outsourced enough of it yet.
i am warning you, you better start giving them metrics of why it is down. because even if MS says there is a problem that cost doesnt show on the company balance sheet, but your paycheck does.
they paid to save money and believed the sales pitch. they got rid of local servers and whatever cost it takes to maintain them and turn them on and even license them with a new forward looking perpetual payment scheme since few people opt to try to run older software on fast hardware to provide a good service that works well.
that means you can't demonstrate the problem wasn't locally since you cant prove a falsehood. they wont believe that saving money was bad and in fact they will want to save more.
many many MANY businesses are going to 365 and oh so many dont have better than business dsl or comcast. what used to be gigabit and even faster local access now involves every employee going to the internet and downloading the website graphics and mail as a temporary cache to repeat forever more each day, instead of just a few servers handling mail with people on a local client reading data that exists on the local network after it has been served to them over a high speed connection.
the thrill of changing backup tapes may not be great, but eliminating the need by plummeting the performance to broadband speeds, multiplying it over many users and insulting it even more if the web client is used -- is priceless.
thus the it staff is reduced further, since the only way to solve the problem is to buy more cloud if you were to understand their logic.