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Google Compute Engine: Three Things to Know

Right as the final buzzer was going to sound for last week’s Google I/O conference, I had a really interesting chat with Craig McLuckie, the general manager of the just-launched Google Compute Engine (GCE) infrastructure-as-a-service offering. It’s extremely early days for the platform, and Google’s still working on refining the offering. But here are three things ...

Introducing Google Compute Engine: Google’s Play for IaaS Supremacy

The rumors are true: During today’s keynote at Google I/O, Google announced the launch (in limited preview) of Google Compute Engine, an infrastructure-as-a-service offering that enables customers to spin up Linux virtual machines with high-performance networking. And possibly more importantly, Google says that their innovation in driving the cost of computing down means that Google ...

Google Now: Bringing Big Data to the Little People

Google co-founder Sergey Brin definitely stole the show at Google I/O today with a demo of Google Glass that involved skydiving, BMX ramping, and urban rappelling. But before that, the search giant showed off Google Now, a Siri-like app in the just-announced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean takes user search habits and gives answers to questions ...

Google Needs More Developer Mojo To Compete in the IaaS Market

By now, you’ve probably heard the rumors that Google is set to unveil a full-fledged infrastructure-as-a-service offering at its annual Google I/O conference, which kicks off tomorrow. If true, it’s a maneuver designed to take on Google’s cloud rivals at Amazon Web Services and especially Microsoft. But the real key here is going to be Google’s ability ...

Red Hat Announces Freemium Business Model for OpenShift PaaS

Back in April, Red Hat announced the release of the OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) as open source. But the big question mark has been how Red Hat was going to apply its services-oriented business model to OpenShift and monetize the solution. Well, wonder no more, as Red Hat has announced a hosted OpenShift offering in free ...

Netflix Brings Cluster, Application Management to Amazon Web Services with Asgard Open Source Tool

Netflix is continuing its habit of releasing cloud tools to the open source community with the announcement that the source code for Asgard, the video provider’s web interface for application deployment and Amazon Web Services cloud management, is now available under an Apache 2.0 license. Now, Netflix is a prominent Amazon Web Services customer, and ...

OpenStack, Eucalyptus, CloudStack: No Easy Answers for Open Source Clouds

The nice thing about a conference like GigaOM Structure is that everybody who’s anybody in the cloud shows up. Representatives from just about every major vendor were there to talk about their vision for the future of cloud services. But two sessions above all generated buzz and lunchtime discussion, and not coincidentally both were on ...

EMC Consulting Chief to CIOs: Beware The Cloud U-Turn

EMC Consulting Chief Operating Officer Tom Roloff came to GigaOM Structure this week armed with a brand new, service provider-focused study which indicates that from storage to VDI to eCommerce and everything in between, CIOs are ready to move to the public cloud in a big way. I caught up with Roloff after his on-stage ...

Facebook Boosting Its Edge Network, Rethinking Data Center Design

Facebook has decided that its photo delivery needs to get even faster, and is building out its own edge network infrastructure to get there. That nugget comes from the GigaOM Structure conference by Facebook VP Frank Frankovsky, in conversation with GigaOM’s Stacey Higginbotham. Netflix, of all companies, has been repeatedly brought up here at Structure as a ...

Core Microsoft Office 365 Exec Defects to Amazon Web Services

Tom Rizzo, the man who basically invented Microsoft’s strategy for the Office 365 cloud productivity suite, is leaving Redmond behind after 17 years with the company in favor of a new position with Amazon Web Services. A hat tip to Geekwire, which noticed the update on Rizzo’s LinkedIn profile. That profile update indicates that he ...