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Google Compute Engine: Three Things to Know

Right as the final buzzer was going to sound for last week’s Google I/O conference, I had a really interesting chat with Craig McLuckie, the general manager of the just-launched Google Compute Engine (GCE) infrastructure-as-a-service offering. It’s extremely early days for the platform, …

Introducing Google Compute Engine: Google’s Play for IaaS Supremacy

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

The rumors are true: During today’s keynote at Google I/O, Google announced the launch (in limited preview) of Google Compute Engine, an infrastructure-as-a-service offering that enables customers to spin up Linux virtual machines with high-performance networking. And possibly more importantly, Google says …

Google Now: Bringing Big Data to the Little People

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

Google co-founder Sergey Brin definitely stole the show at Google I/O today with a demo of Google Glass that involved skydiving, BMX ramping, and urban rappelling. But before that, the search giant showed off Google Now, a Siri-like app in the just-announced …

Google Needs More Developer Mojo To Compete in the IaaS Market

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

By now, you’ve probably heard the rumors that Google is set to unveil a full-fledged infrastructure-as-a-service offering at its annual Google I/O conference, which kicks off tomorrow. If true, it’s a maneuver designed to take on Google’s cloud rivals at Amazon Web Services and …

Red Hat Announces Freemium Business Model for OpenShift PaaS

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

Back in April, Red Hat announced the release of the OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) as open source. But the big question mark has been how Red Hat was going to apply its services-oriented business model to OpenShift and monetize the solution. Well, wonder …

Netflix Brings Cluster, Application Management to Amazon Web Services with Asgard Open Source Tool

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

Netflix is continuing its habit of releasing cloud tools to the open source community with the announcement that the source code for Asgard, the video provider’s web interface for application deployment and Amazon Web Services cloud management, is now available under an …

OpenStack, Eucalyptus, CloudStack: No Easy Answers for Open Source Clouds

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

The nice thing about a conference like GigaOM Structure is that everybody who’s anybody in the cloud shows up. Representatives from just about every major vendor were there to talk about their vision for the future of cloud services. But two sessions …

EMC Consulting Chief to CIOs: Beware The Cloud U-Turn

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

EMC Consulting Chief Operating Officer Tom Roloff came to GigaOM Structure this week armed with a brand new, service provider-focused study which indicates that from storage to VDI to eCommerce and everything in between, CIOs are ready to move to the public …

Facebook Boosting Its Edge Network, Rethinking Data Center Design

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

Facebook has decided that its photo delivery needs to get even faster, and is building out its own edge network infrastructure to get there. That nugget comes from the GigaOM Structure conference by Facebook VP Frank Frankovsky, in conversation with GigaOM’s Stacey Higginbotham. Netflix, …

Core Microsoft Office 365 Exec Defects to Amazon Web Services

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

Tom Rizzo, the man who basically invented Microsoft’s strategy for the Office 365 cloud productivity suite, is leaving Redmond behind after 17 years with the company in favor of a new position with Amazon Web Services. A hat tip to Geekwire, which …

Matt Weinberger

Latest from Matt Weinberger

Google Compute Engine: Three Things to Know

Google Now: Bringing Big Data to the Little People

Facebook Boosting Its Edge Network, Rethinking Data Center Design

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