UPDATED 17:45 EST / JANUARY 30 2014

NEWS

Cloud player Cloudyn places a bet on the Google public cloud

Joining the list of more than 300,000 business customers, Cloudyn, a  solution for cloud monitoring and optimization, announced the general availability Cloudyn tools for use in Google Compute Engine and the addition of capabilities for managing deployments Google and Amazon cloud.

Google formally launched its Compute Engine just end of last year, a cloud service that rents small and large companies through the huge network infrastructure and search giant. This step is similar to Amazon’s efforts with their own business network service called AWS. The Google Compute Engine (GCE) is still a new product on the market for public cloud, but it is already reaping a strong audience in the market.

Sharon Wagner, chief executive of Cloudyn shared his idea as why the company joined the young public cloud. He said from an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) perspective, Google has a stronger strategy, deep pockets, infrastructure, and vision than any other player that can compete with public cloud leader AWS. As per the company’s study, Google is an attractive option for 53 percent of its AWS customers.

“When we opened up our beta program, our customer base exhibited strong interest, with 35 percent asking to participate. We’re very pleased to have extended our offering to support our customers and the slew of enterprises migrating their business to the cloud. Going forward, what we expect to unfold is akin to an “Expedia for the cloud,” where real brokerage empowerment is taking hold and the best deals are offered between sellers and buyers,” stated Sharon Wagner, CEO of Cloudyn. “I have no doubt 2014 will be an interesting year for both vendors and their customers.”

Cloudyn’s new offering enables businesses to view cost and usage analytics for GCE, as well as see the implications of changes both on the deployment and financial/sizing optimizations for GCE. It will enable enterprises to examine how their AWS deployments will compare on GCE in terms of costs, performance and location. Moreover, enterprises will get real-time and accurate porting recommendations from AWS to GCE based on cost, performance and location preferences and expand to multiple cloud computing platforms using Cloudyn’s multi-cloud support.

Better value means developers need worry less about overhead

All these benefits do have a positive impact on developers. Managers (and teams) will now have a platform where they can compare which cloud services is offering best value to their products in terms of performance, cost and location preference.

For CIOs and IT managers, Cloudyn tools for GCE would give them the access to critical ongoing analytics so they can proactively identify unnecessary spending, unused resources, and over-provisioned services. In addition, developers can easily use the cloud-based services from different vendors and then use the most cost effective way to support their deployment requirements.

Google Compute Engine became generally available in early December last year. In comparison, and Amazon AWS business enjoys an advantageous position, both in relation to the customer base as to prices. Amazon has recently lowered the prices for its cloud service, which competes directly with Compute Engine. However, many in the cloud community believe that Google cloud is one of the few companies that can go head to head with Amazon in the public cloud industry.


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