Tag Archives: google compute engine

May 21, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Arise the New Public Cloud Platform – Google is for Real

By Ben Kepes

I’ve just spent a few days at the extravaganza which is Google IO. As with previous occasions, this year’s event didn’t fail to blow away the attendees with the sheer amount of “wow” that Google manages to pull out – on so many fronts Google is doing incredible stuff. My

Tagged amazon web services, AWS, cloud computing, GCE, General Certificate of Education, google, google app engine, google compute engine |

May 8, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Looking Forward to GoogleIO and SuiteWorld

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me continue my US sojourn with stops at NetSuite‘s annual event SuiteWorld and the much-heralded Google developer event, GoogleIO. I’m going to write a compendium post about what I expect to see at these two very different events. Quick disclosure first – as is customary, Google and

Tagged google, google app engine, google compute engine, larry ellison, Microsoft, netsuite, oracle, SAP AG, zach nelson |

June 28, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Google Compute Engine–Day One Analsysis

By Ben Kepes

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

Tagged Application programming interface, cloud computing, enStratus, google, google app engine, google compute engine, Google I/O, Representational State Transfer, RightScale |

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.