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Google Cloud Platform Adds Load Balancing To Provide More Scale Out Capability And Control To Developers

Google has added new load balancing to Google Compute Engine, giving Google App Engine further scale-out capabilities. Google has also added new Ruby support for Datastore and improved PHP runtime. The new load balancing feature allows developers to route traffic across a collection of servers, do health checks, automatically handle spikes in data loads and […]

New Version Of Google App Engine Offers Better App Performance, But It Comes With A Cost

Google Apple Engine (GAE) released a new versionn of its cloud platform today, offering dedicated memcache that allows developers to purchase in-memory data caching for their apps at a cost of 12 cents per gigabyte per hour. The new service is in addition to new features in GAE 1.8.2 such as better Git support and […]

With Its Acquisition Of Locationary, Apple Zeros In On Maps, Big Data And Competing With Google

After breaking up with Google and forging its own way forward with its mapping service on iOS, Apple is now taking another step on that path: today it emerged that the company has bought Locationary, a big data startup that has created a platform to merge and clean up disparate information about companies’ business profiles […]

The Google Drive Paradox And Why Egnyte Is Not Complaining

A person using Google Drive in the enterprise faces a paradox: Google Drive wasn’t built from the ground up for the enterprise. It’s just not secure enough below the file level. That’s where Egnyte and its file-server technology enters the picture. Egnyte and Google are teaming up to make Google Drive more accessible as a platform that […]

Google Explains Why Its Cloud Service Is Different When It Comes To Lock-In

A Google engineer concluded on his Google+ page last week that a cloud platform can’t be built without some form of lock-in. That’s evidently true but there really is one main reason for making such a point. Google wants to show that it is not much different from its competitors when it comes to this hot topic […]

Study: LinkedIn Positioned To Become First Global Economic Graph, Business Platform On Par With Google And Facebook

LinkedIn is positioned to become the first global economic graph with the ability to mine the transactions of an emerging data economy. That’s the conclusion of a study by faberNovel, a Paris-based consulting group that has published the results of its work with a detailed 127-slide report titled: LinkedIn, The Serious Network. FaberNovel has a […]

With All That Developer Mojo, Google Is Like An Ass-Kicking Octopus

For James Governor and the RedMonk crew, craft beer is a metaphor for talking about developer communities, the cloud and all that goes with them. It’s something these guys do every day, providing their own independent analysis about the millions of programmers who RedMonk Co-Founder Stephen O’Grady calls the new kingmakers. So I asked James […]

AppScale Launches As An Open-Source Backup Equivalent To Google App Engine

Startup AppScale has launched its open-source backup up service for Google App Engine (GAE), which is compatible with standard cloud services that developers use when building apps. The company, which was one of six startups that presented at the Structure conference last week, stood out even if it did not win an award for overall best startup […]

Google App Engine Gets New Release, No Signs Of Slowing Cloud Push

Google just launched Google App Engine 1.8.1 with a host of new features, most notable among them a long-awaited search API and push-to-deploy feature similar to pushing code to a Git repository. The new features follow a busy Google I/O that witnessed the company showing its strongest push ever into the cloud services market. Until […]