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Google Compute Engine and App Engine give Evite freedom to expand services anytime

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Today’s guest blog comes from Dan Mesh, Vice President of Technology at Evite, the pioneer in online invitations and social planning. Evite has over 30 million registered users and sends more than 250 million party invitations annually.PostmarkEvite InkGoogle Compute EngineGoogle App Engine

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Now Available on Google Compute Engine

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Today's guest post comes from Michael Miller, Vice President of Global Alliances and Marketing at SUSE. In this post, Michael describes SUSE's integration with Google Compute Engine.SUSE Linux Enterprise ServerGoogle Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine is now Generally Available with expanded OS support, transparent maintenance, and lower prices

Monday, December 2, 2013

Google Cloud PlatformGoogle Compute EngineSLAExpanded operating system supportDebianCentosany out-of-the-box Linux distributionSELinuxCoreOSDockerFOGxfsaufsRed Hat Enterprise LinuxFreeBSDTransparent maintenance with live migration and automatic restarttransparent maintenancelive migration technologyautomatically restart New 16-core instances three new instance typesFaster, cheaper Persistent Disksprevious blog post10% Lower Prices for Standard InstancesCustomers and partners using Compute EngineSnapchatCooladataMendelicsEviteWixSaltStackWowzaRightscaleQuboleRed HatSUSEScalrCloud Platform Partner Program “We find that Compute Engine scales quickly, allowing us to easily meet the flow of new sequencing requests… Compute Engine has helped us scale with our demands and has been a key component to helping our physicians diagnose and cure genetic diseases in Brazil and around the world.”
- David Schlesinger, CEO of Mendelics "Google Cloud Platform provides the most consistent performance we’ve ever seen. Every VM, every disk, performs exactly as we expect it to and gave us the ability to build fast, low-latency applications."
- Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr

The new Persistent Disk - faster, cheaper and more predictable for Google Compute Engine

Monday, December 2, 2013

New lower and more predictable Persistent Disk price modelcut PD prices significantly

Old Price

New Price

Space

$0.10 / GB / month

$0.04 / GB / month

$0.10 / million IOs

Included in price of the space

New Persistent Disk performance model

Raise the overall caps: The highest performing volumes now have the following limits

2000 random read IOPS (up from 250)
2400 random write IOPS (up from 600)
180 MB/s of streaming reads (up from 120 MB/s)
120 MB/s of streaming writes (same as previous limit)

Simplify scaling of IO: As we’ve publicly discussed, PD volumes are striped across hundreds or even thousands of physical devices. With PD, we manage the RAID for you so you never have to stripe multiple small volumes together inside a VM to increase IO. You get the same performance for a single 1 TB volume as for 10 x 100 GB volumes

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Red Hat and Google Compute Engine – Extending the Datacenter

Monday, December 2, 2013

Today’s guest blogger is Jim Totton, vice president and general manager of the Platform Business Unit at Red Hat. the most capableGoogle Cloud Platform

Extended Choice: As a member of the Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider program, Google Compute Engine is a trusted and supported destination for developers, application owners, and administrators looking to benefit from the value of Red Hat. Additionally, as part of Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud ecosystem, Google Compute Engine provides the added choice of an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform for customers looking to extend their environment in conjunction with a service provider.

Consistency: Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances on Google Compute Engine deliver the same features (e.g., performance and security), and lifecycle (release and update cycles) as on-premise environments. If an application needs the latest development and run-time packages provided by Red Hat Software Collections, or security provided by SELinux, Google Compute Engine provides the consistent features and capabilities for robust application deployments.

Certification and Support: A core value of Red Hat offerings is the assurance of support and certification for the platforms on which they are deployed. This promise spans from hardware platforms to virtual and cloud environments, providing customers with support at all levels of the stack and across all deployment models. Red Hat and Google have worked together to ensure that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) platform that Google Compute Engine is built upon, is powerful, capable, and supported when running application workloads on Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the guest operating system.

Google Compute Engine helps Mendelics diagnose genetic diseases

Monday, December 2, 2013

Today’s guest blog comes from Rodrigo Borges, senior bioinformatician of Mendelics, a molecular diagnostics company based in São Paulo, Brazil. The company diagnoses genetic diseases by sequencing the human genome to identify mutations that cause inherited diseases. While the company currently has fewer than 20 employees, it tackles a multi-billion dollar problem by helping the over 100,000 children that are born with genetic diseases in Brazil.Google App EngineGoogle Cloud PlatformGoogle Compute EngineGoogle Cloud StorageGoogle BigQuery

CoolaData digs into the “why” of online consumer behavior with help from Google Compute Engine

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Today’s guest blogger is Nick Terner, backend team leader at CoolaData, based in Tel Aviv, Israel. CoolaData provides fully actionable, unified behavioral analytics solutions for online companies. The company recently raised $7.5 million in Series A funding.Google Compute Engine

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