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  • Doubting Google’s Cloud Commitment

    October 21, 2013

    Business
    cloud computing, Companies, data center, Forbes, google, google app engine, Search Engine, Searching
     

    After a recent Forbes post, I was asked to appear on SDRNews to talk about my view on why Google needs to get more serious about its commitment to its cloud infrastructure customers. Here’s the interview in its entirety…

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  • Buzzword overload from FatFractal – But a Telling Glimpse of the Future of PaaS

    July 11, 2013

    Business
    cloud, cloud computing, DevOps, Donnie Berkholz, google app engine, Platform as a service, RedMonk, Savvis
     

    Warning – If you’re the sort of person who chokes on industry buzzwords, then the press release I just got from FatFractal (a pretty cool name for a company) will make you gag. Here’s the headline: FatFractal announces ‘Cloud-in-a-Box’…

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  • Arise the New Public Cloud Platform – Google is for Real

    May 21, 2013

    Business
    amazon web services, AWS, cloud computing, GCE, General Certificate of Education, google, google app engine, google compute engine
     

    I’ve just spent a few days at the extravaganza which is Google IO. As with previous occasions, this year’s event didn’t fail to blow away the attendees with the sheer amount of “wow” that Google manages to pull out…

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  • Looking Forward to GoogleIO and SuiteWorld

    May 8, 2013

    Business
    google, google app engine, google compute engine, larry ellison, Microsoft, netsuite, oracle, SAP AG, zach nelson
     

    Next week sees me continue my US sojourn with stops at NetSuite‘s annual event SuiteWorld and the much-heralded Google developer event, GoogleIO. I’m going to write a compendium post about what I expect to see at these two very…

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  • Speaking in Tech Podcast

    April 29, 2013

    Business
    cloud computing, CloudConnect, google app engine, hewlett packard, Margaret Dawson, platform services, San Francisco Bay Area, Savvis
     

    While I was in the Bay Area recently for Cloud Connect, I took the opportunity to spend half an hour or so recording a podcast with Ed Saipetch from Savvis and Margaret Dawson, newly appointed VP of Marketing and…

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  • Google Compute Engine–Day One Analsysis

    June 28, 2012

    Business
    Application programming interface, cloud computing, enStratus, google, google app engine, google compute engine, Google I/O, Representational State Transfer, RightScale
     

    At GoogleIO today, Google announced the limited launch of its Infrastructure as a Service product, Google Compute Engine. This comes as no surprise, the move has been rumored for months and Google does undeniably have some of the largest…

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  • Google Cloud Storage–Enterprise Announcements Roll In from Panzura and Zmanda

    March 6, 2012

    Business
    box, Cloud storage, dropbox, google, google app engine, Google Cloud Storage, panzura, Zmanda
     

    We’ve been talking for years about Google offering a storage system to take on the likes of Box and DropBox. It’s an obvious development for the company who arguable has the best economics around data storage on earth. Last…

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  • CloudU Webinar Recap: Does Data Want to be Free?

    October 14, 2011

    Business
    cloudcomputing, google app engine, Open standard, OpenStack, Sam Johnston
     

    Last week we had the latest CloudU webinar, this time looking at the role of Open Standards in Cloud Computing. I was really excited to be joined on the call by Scott Sanchez, someone who is intimately involved with…

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  • On the Battle Lines of PaaS–The Future is Bifurcated

    June 14, 2011

    Business
    aPaaS, cloudcomputing, Force.Com, google app engine, Heroku, iPaaS, PaaS, Salesforce.com, Software as a Service
     

    Friend and one-time colleague Krishnan Subramanian posted recently his view of the different ways PaaS products can be differentiated. Very briefly, Krish classed products in three distinct categories; Traditional PaaS models (push your app to the PaaS and all…

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  • Google app engine pricing

    June 3, 2008

    Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0
    amazon web services, google app engine
     

    Google has finally opened App Engine to the public and released pricing information. In a case of “following the leader”, Google’s pricing closely follows that of Amazon’s; Google App Engine Free quota to get started: 500MB storage and enough…

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