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 Compute Engine can cost as little as 50% less than the competition.
In a short presentation, Google’s Urs Hölzle discussed a customer use-case for Google Compute Engine: the Institute for Systems Biology went from a 1,000-node internal cluster to a 10,000-node Compute Engine deployment, driving the time to find associations within a genome from 10 minutes to “a few seconds.” What’s more, they did it while reducing network connectivity errors by a factor of ten.
Exact details are still slim, but Hölzle promises that Google Compute Engine provides speed, performance and value beyond that of its competition. And while he didn’t name names, it seems readily apparent that Google has Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Windows Azure. And like Microsoft, Google is promoting the benefits of using PaaS – specifically Google App Engine – in conjunction with Google Compute Engine IaaS.
The Google I/O reality distortion field is still very much in effect, and specific details (What VM format is Google using?) are still scant. But we’re going to work hard at finding out the specifics, so keep watching SiliconANGLE.
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