Google senior VP talks about when the company nearly failed | Computerworld

Just getting started as a cloud platform player -- at least on the marketing side...

"Holzle also noted that Google has not picked up the pace of marketing for its cloud business because it wants to focus on the technology before opening the floodgates.

"We have definitely not turned up the marketing faucet as much because we want to convince people by the quality of the product and not the quality of the ad," he said. "We're actually growing very quickly and we're having trouble keeping up with the demand. You don't want to turn on the faucet and have people come to you and be disappointed."

Holzle also said the next five years will bring much greater advances to the cloud than the last five years have."

Google senior VP talks about when the company nearly failed | Computerworld