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Is Google's EC2 Competitor for Real?

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If we talk about cloud computing, first thing that knocks off our head is of course Google. Cloud computing is in Google's DNA structure, and the company has been continually pushing the technical bounds of cloud processing for longer than 10 years.

Now that the Amazon EC2 has been so popular, and turning out to be a dollar-machine for Amazon, it makes perfect sense for Google's EC2 competitor to be rolled out to tap into this unharnessed market with lot of demand, and so little competition.
Google's Connection With Cloud: Today, suggestions and utilization figures from vast sums of customers within the real-world allow Google to bring stress tested development to organization customers at an unmatched tempo. Through Google's customer user-base, all of us rapidly understand that latest features will be beneficial in the business enterprise context, making them accessible to Google Apps customers with minimum hold off.

The World Wide Web is an epicenter of development, and the multi-tenant commercial infrastructure was created so that major search engines like Google can press enhancements to the entire consumer-base on brief technology renewal cycles.

The Cloud Power

In 2009 alone, Google released over one hundred updates, but customers did not have to handle any kind of updates or apply patches to cope up with these updates. In comparison, giant corporates often revise conventional server software every 5 to 7 years because of lengthy release rounds from suppliers and the cost as well as intricacy organizations face applying updates, particularly when stronger servers are needed, like 64-bit components.

Browser-based programs are an additional key component within this recipe for quick development. Whenever Google releases latest features within their own web applications, users immediately get these types of enhancements simply by refreshing their web browsers.

Simply because data in Google Apps is kept in the cloud rather than on employee computer systems, multiple customers may obtain and give rise to projects concurrently without worrying about utilizing the same operating-system, software program, or Internet browser. For instance, rather than working together on the document through backward and forward modifications after modification as attachments, documents happen to be kept in the cloud with Google Applications. Co-workers may access the web-based document concurrently within their web browsers, as well as make modifications that other sanctioned customers can easily see in real time.

What's Next?

Google Storage went into BETA in 2010, and started accepting developer sign-ups, and 2011 looks like the perfect time to roll out Google's EC2 competitor, but we're not quite sure as to when that would really happen. So, keep an eye on the latest developments in the cloud arena, and see what is in stores for 2011.
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