A memo went out last year about all federal networks supporting IPv6 only in the coming years. Since Google's cloud doesn't really support IPv6 at all, I don't think they were going to win the contract anyway.
That was an excuse and a convenient cover story. GCP can't even serve the needs of large organizations, they definitely can't service the government. Couple that with the leaked plans to shut the thing down because it's an abject failure (it's a money pit for Google), and why would you want to be on the platform of certain disaster?
I've had demos from GCP sales reps, and the platform is shambolic. It doesn't even work during sales presentations.
Everyone bar AWS is focusing on multicloud. And VMware's offerings are utter shite and very poor features wise ( where it matters), so I doubt they'll be impacted.
( Their offerings were so bad they were forced to sell their vSphere as a service arm to a low cost hosting provider. Even with the popularity of that dumpster fire in DCs and most companies moving away from DCs they still couldn't capture any market share)
briffle|4 years ago
tgsovlerkhgsel|4 years ago
Unlike AWS and Azure, Google doesn't offer any GovCloud regions, only Fedramp which seems to apply to unclassified data only.
RKearney|4 years ago
0xy|4 years ago
I've had demos from GCP sales reps, and the platform is shambolic. It doesn't even work during sales presentations.
snug|4 years ago
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-heres-why-were-pulling-...
arenaninja|4 years ago
sofixa|4 years ago
( Their offerings were so bad they were forced to sell their vSphere as a service arm to a low cost hosting provider. Even with the popularity of that dumpster fire in DCs and most companies moving away from DCs they still couldn't capture any market share)
paulddraper|4 years ago