Google Upgrades Its IaaS, Analytics Offerings at I/O
May 18, 2013
Grazed from Slashdot.org. Author: Editorial Staff.
Google’s I/O conference in San Francisco didn’t just offer new products and services for consumers: the company used the event to unveil upgraded software for developers and those who deal with IT infrastructure.
For example, Google Compute Engine (which the company first announced last year) is now available to everyone in preview, with a bevvy of just-announced features. The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering gives developers access to Google’s enormous computing power, the better to crunch data and build applications…
According to Google’s Cloud Platform Blog, new Google Compute Engine features include sub-hour billing (“charges for instances in one-minute increments with a ten-minute minimum,” the blog posting explained, “so you don’t pay for compute minutes you don’t use”), shared-core instances for low-intensity workloads, advanced routing for those IT pros with a need to create gateways and VPN servers, and large persistent disks that support up to 10 terabytes per volume…
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