Google Cloud Computing
It is end of 2013 and here I’m looking back at the year and what has happened in the context of Google’s cloud computing offering.
For Google’s cloud computing offering, the Google Cloud Platform, 2013 was an exciting year. Over at their blog they currently run a review and one of the posts is around one of the key events: Google Compute Engine (GCE) becoming GA. I personally find this very exciting and want to contribute with some further material around GCE, partly stuff I stumbled upon, partly stuff produced by yours truly.
Some heads-up before we start: this is gonna be a mixed bag, some of the stories are rather low-level and tekkie while others are more general-purpose/business oriented. And off we go!
Google Ramps Up Its Amazon Cloud Rival
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/google-compute-open/
According to recent tests by a company called Scalr — an outfit that helps businesses manage their use of Amazon EC2 and other cloud services — virtual servers boot 4 to 10 times faster on Google Compute Engine than on EC2, and in some cases, the company says, you can move data onto Google as much as 20 times faster.
Google Compute Engine vs. Amazon Web Services cloud: The battle is on
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/120313-google-compute-engine-amazon-web-services-276537.html
Google will likely be in this fight for the long-haul and it may push AWS to innovate faster technically. Google’s cloud executive hinted to the New York Times that the company hopes to offer a more reliable and higher-performing cloud compared to that of AWS. RightScale, which is a company that allows customers to access public clouds from multiple providers, notes in a blog post that it has been impressed with Google cloud’s performance and that one of its customers is using GCE over AWS because of the reliability and scalability.
Hadoop-as-a-Service Provider Qubole Now Runs on Google Compute Engine
http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/12/qubole-on-gce
Qubole, a managed Hadoop-as-a-Service offering is now available on Google Compute Engine (GCE). Qubole was so far only available on Amazon’s AWS and this announcement follows only a few days after Google releasing GCE into general availability.
Deploying Storm on GCE
http://datadventures.markbox.io/2013/12/29/storm-on-gce
In this post I describe how to set up and use Storm on GCE. You can find the underlying code over on GitHub.
Hope you found the one or other resource here useful and I’m very much looking forward to the developments in GCE and Google Cloud in general, in 2014!
