Cloud Just Got Real – The Race Begins
This week, Google hosted its Cloud Platform Live event. Some people were a little surprised at my enthusiastic live twitter coverage for a number of Google’s announcements. I have been waiting for them to “go big or go home” for a while now. My biggest surprise was how long it took Google to get up […]
Cloud Reviews from Real Customers: EC2, Azure, App Engine, Heroku and More
Choosing the right PaaS cloud for your application can be a confusing process. There are literally dozens of cloud providers, large and small, that offer the basic set of services you need to run your app. I founded IT Central Station to help enterprise tech users find the best service by offering hands-on reviews by […]
Google Compute Engine–Day One Analsysis
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 scale infrastructure on earth alongside the smarts to run it amazingly effectively – a potent combination […]
Google Cloud Storage–Enterprise Announcements Roll In from Panzura and 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 year we got an inkling of this direction with the release
CloudU Webinar Recap: Does Data Want to be Free?
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 one of the biggest Cloud Open Standards plays, OpenStack. As well as Sanchez, we were joined […]
VMWare Disrupts PaaS Space With Cloud Foundry – An Analysis
VMware (previous CloudAve coverage) today announced Cloud Foundry, its Open Platform as a Service product, at a special event in Palo Alto. Cloud Foundry is both hosted and available as open source. More interestingly, it can run on your laptop or a single server or 1000s of VMs or, even, hundreds of dedicated servers. Apart […]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudBees Acquires Stax Networks To Accelerate Their PaaS Strategy
CloudBees, founded in early 2010 with developers in US, Europe and Australia, today announced the acquisition of Stax Networks, the Java Application platform running on top of EC2. This acquisition accelerates CloudBees’ RUN@cloud PaaS strategy which is slated for release in January 2011. Regular readers of this blog know that I am strongly pushing the […]
Google Upgrades App Engine
Google today upgraded their PaaS offering, Google App Engine (GAE). The new version, Google App Engine 1.4.0, is a significant release with some new features long requested by the developers. The new App Engine SDK will let developers take advantage of the newly released features. After starting off with just Python, Google App Engine supported […]
Is Google App Engine Silently Gaining Traction?
When Google released its PaaS offering called Google App Engine, it attracted Web 2.0 developers in big numbers but it didn’t gain much traction like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft platform. In fact, in May 2010, Network World had an article quoting a Forrester Survey which put the percentage of developers using Google App Engine […]
Making PaaS Like Lego
Recently I was briefed by WorkXpress about their Platform as a Service that they tout as being “the world’s most functional PaaS”. That’s a pretty lofty claim given the competition in the marketplace so I thought I’d take a look under the hood. I spoke with Treff LaPlante, President and CEO of this seven year […]
Platform Interoperability: Force.com Talks To Google App Engine
In my opinion, the future of Cloud Computing will be a more federated ecosystem than few players holding a monopoly kind of dominance. In such a federated ecosystem, interoperability becomes very important. I have emphasized the importance of interoperability many times in this space. Unless we have Clouds talking to one another, we will end […]
Google App Engine’s Next Iteration
Image via CrunchBase Today, at the Campfire event to celebrate Google App Engine’s first birthday, Google made some significant announcements related to Google App Engine. The biggest news of them, though it has been anticipated for sometime now, is the support for Java in Google App Engine. This is definitely a significant move as many developers are clamoring for Java […]
PaaS, Trusting Beyond Its Initial Hype
Image via Wikipedia Friday, I wrote about the shutdown of PaaS vendor, Coghead, and wondered how one can minimize the risks involved with such scenarios. Unless we figure out a way to minimize such risks, it will be impossible to convince enterprise customers to trust their applications on top of PaaS. Let us take a detour and check out some of the players […]
Some Quiet Changes To Google App Engine
Image via CrunchBase Google has announced some quiet changes to Google App Engine. They are No more "High CPU Requests"! App Engine Apps were once allowed no more than 2 CPU-intensive requests per minute. We’ve made some adjustments to the way we handle requests, and have eliminated this limitation altogether. To learn more about how […]
Create Your App On Zoho Creator And Deploy It On Google App Engine
Disclaimer: Zoho is the sponsor of this blog but this is my independent personal opinion. I had access to the same documents that were provided to other bloggers. Today, Zoho made a major announcement about the integration between Zoho Creator and Google App Engine. Now, one can create an app on Zoho Creator and deploy […]
