Google’s graveyard haunts Compute Engine
October 9, 2013
Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Nancy Gohring.
In case you missed it, there’s been a bit of a hubbub about whether Google is serious about its Compute Engine offering or likely to shut it down on a whim, like it did with Google Reader and countless other services. The question popped up when analyst Rene Buest raised the alarm after reading a GigaOm story that said Google Cloud Platform manager Greg DeMichillie “wouldn’t guarantee services like Compute Engine will be around for the long haul.”
DeMichellie went on to say that given Google’s compute services also run internal offerings, the company is unlikely to shut them down. ”There’s no scenario in which Google suddenly decides, ‘Gee, I don’t think we need to think about storage anymore or computing anymore,’” he said, according to GigaOm…
Given Google’s track record, you really can’t blame people for wondering how serious it is about just about any new service. Just search for Google graveyard and you’ll find a number of sites that list the many Google services that have been shut down over the years (including this one at Slate, which lets you drop a virtual flower on the tombstone of your favorite dead service)…
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