Google's Cloud outage could undercut the platform's two key selling points:
This is an excerpt from a story delivered exclusively to Business Insider Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers.Google experienced an outage to its cloud computing network over the weekend that took down a range of its services, and those of its customers,
TechCrunch. The issues that caused Google Cloud to go down for more than four hours — primarily network congestion — have since been resolved, and the service is up and running.But as the company continues to try to build up its presence in the IoT platform space on the back of its cloud service, it faces questions about its reliability that could be difficult to answer.
At a Google Cloud event in April, Google SVP of technical infrastructure Urs Hölzle highlighted the service's reliability. Hethat Google Cloud had been down for only 208 minutes in 2018, compared to 312 minutes for Amazon Web Services and 2,033 minutes for Microsoft's Azure. But with this weekend's cloud outage — which impacted not just Google's cloud business, but also its popular services like Gmail, YouTube, and the Nest smart home platform — that reputation for reliability could go out the window.
Reliability is a key factor for companies deciding on a cloud platform to house and analyze the data streaming from IoT devices and other monitoring systems. When systems go down, any automation or alerting that helps operations continue smoothly go down with them, which can have a cascading effect and cause all sorts of headaches and mayhem.
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