Google Cloud – Lawrence Hecht

March 10, 2022February 6, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article, The New Stack

Bad Cloud Computing News: OpenStack Use Plummets and Discounts Dry Up

In 2021, 52% of AWS customers got a discount on AWS reserved instances, now only 36% do. In 2021, 48% of Google Cloud customers negotiated an ad hoc discount; in 2022, only 10%.

March 21, 2021February 6, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article, The New Stack

Google and Oracle Cloud Adoption Doubles Among Enterprises

The numbers seem too good to be true. The Google Cloud Platform is used by 49% of enterprise respondents surveyed for Flexera’s “2021 State of the Cloud Report,” up from 20% in the 2019 study. The Oracle Infrastructure Cloud similarly skyrocketed from 16% to 32%. However, […]

March 16, 2021February 6, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article, The New Stack

Are Private Clouds Proliferating?

The average number of private clouds being used or experimented with jumped 3.9 to 4.9 in the latest study Flexera 2021 State of the Cloud Report. That’s more than the average 3.4 public clouds in the same study. Google Anthos rapidly picked up users and […]

April 28, 2020February 6, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article, The New Stack

Long-Running Study Finds Uptake of Private Clouds from Azure, AWS and GCP

By one measure, it seems obvious that the migration of workloads to the public cloud has accelerated. In last year’s study, only 33% of workloads were in the public cloud, while today the figure is 57%.

June 13, 2019February 4, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article, The New Stack

Why Salesforce and Google Bought Tableau and Looker

Salesforce is buying Tableau and Google Cloud is adding Looker to its family. After reviewing a panoply of studies about business intelligence (BI), analytics, and data warehousing, we found it evident that both acquisitions will provide best-in-class functionality addressing the needs of both business analysts and the IT department, as well as leadership in high-growth markets that are only tangentially related to artificial intelligence and machine learning.

November 1, 2018February 7, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article, The New Stack

Serverless and Hosted and Installable Platforms

The leading hosted platforms are the big three cloud providers’ FaaS offerings. AWS Lambda has twice as many users as Azure Functions and more than three times as many as Google Cloud Functions.

October 27, 2016February 5, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article, The New Stack

What We Know about Cloud Market Share

AWS has the most customers. Microsoft’s Azure and Rackspace show surprising strength per data sourced from HG Data.