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Engineered for your enterprise. </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div>  <div class='cols-wrapper loading'> <div class='col-main-wrapper'> <div class='col-main'> <div class='section' id='main'><div class='widget Blog' data-version='1' id='Blog1'> <div class='post' data-id='6624614431317781259' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/09/small-business-big-technology-how-cloud.html' itemprop='url' title='Small business, big technology: How the cloud enables rapid growth in SMBs'> Small business, big technology: How the cloud enables rapid growth in SMBs </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Friday, September 26, 2014 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Neil Delaney, International SMB Director, Google Apps for Work</span> <br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> From the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter">typewriter</a> to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_pencil">propelling pencil</a> to our favorite, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web">world wide web</a>, inventors and innovators from the United Kingdom have brought us brilliant advances that have changed the way we work all around the world. Over the next few weeks, we’ll share a handful of stories from disrupters and trailblazers in the UK who are using <a href="https://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/">Google Apps for Work</a> to support their mission while growing at faster and faster speeds. Today, Neil Delaney, International SMB Director for Google Apps for Work, shares insights from a new <a href="http://services.google.com/fh/files/emails/smallbusiness-bigtechnology.pdf">research report</a> from Google and Deloitte on how cloud technology helps businesses overcome growth challenges. </i> <br /> <br /> Fast growth often seems an elusive concept, something a lucky few tech start ups capture for a few fleeting years before slowing to smaller, incremental advances. But a new report we commissioned with Deloitte, <a href="http://services.google.com/fh/files/emails/smallbusiness-bigtechnology.pdf">Small business, big technology: How the cloud enables rapid growth in SMBs</a>, paints both a more complex and uplifting picture — that small and medium businesses are using cloud technology to overcome growth challenges and scale and grow faster. The research explores the operating practices and strategies of businesses in the United States and Europe with up to 750 employees, and suggests that SMBs should move tools and applications to the cloud in order to free up time, capital and resources, and to establish a platform for sustainable rapid growth. Here are a few of the key insights we discovered. <br /> <br /> <b>Cloud technology unlocks faster scaling and growth opportunities </b>Eighty-five percent of SMBs reported that cloud technology enables them to scale and grow faster, while sixty-six percent said that the cloud allows them to outperform against their competitors. It’s this ability to leapfrog other companies and scale rapidly that makes cloud an essential part of any small business’s strategy. <br /> <br /> <b>Cloud technology has a bright future </b>Sixty-six percent of companies expect to increase their use of cloud-based technology in the next three years. This is another trend prevalent amongst companies who have gone Google, who begin adopting cloud services early on in their development and, through experimentation and iteration, begin to adopt more and more cloud solutions across their business processes. Businesses using an above average number of cloud services also grow 26 percent faster and drive 21 percent more profit than those that use no cloud tools. <br /> <br /> <b>The cloud is favoured by both startups and established companies </b>It’s not just startups that use the cloud as a tool for fast growth: 79 percent of relatively mature companies — those older than 5 years who are growing at less than 10% per year — believe cloud technology enables them to access new markets and revenue streams. This will become even more important as organisations adopt more digital tools in order to expand into new regions or product areas. <br /> <br /> <b>Fast growth in action </b>One businesses that knows firsthand the power of embracing digital technology to drive fast growth is <a href="http://googleforwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/madecom-designs-furniture-movement-with.html">Made.com</a>, an online retailer that’s grown to 150 employees across four countries in just four years — and become a household name in the UK along the way. Made.com has <a href="http://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2014/09/madecom-designs-furniture-movement-with.html">relied on Google Apps for Work</a> from its founding days to build a culture of collaboration and innovation, and cites the cloud tools as a key driver in its ability to grow quickly and at scale. “Google for Work” they <a href="https://twitter.com/madedotcom/status/514393808659034113">said</a> recently, “helps us connect, communicate and collaborate.” <br /> <br /> Keep your eye on the Google for Work blog over the coming weeks for three more fast growth stories from companies that have gone Google and rapidly scaled the business food chain. You can read the full report on fast growth and the impact of cloud technology on businesses <a href="http://services.google.com/fh/files/emails/smallbusiness-bigtechnology.pdf">here</a>. <br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji20x5Ro1WGazW6uquyjz0DpJ1ltrno7YyPkIjXVfdOaR_3GWJ5rgTANoZkV24_tVPkhQOw5wctQuhyphenhyphend_5gj2qUha7nTnWmdSOJrLxHuKEAbCq_nPVS-bgB-LwB_J1zAvwzLY0eNjkGh8/s1600/impact_of_the_cloud.png" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji20x5Ro1WGazW6uquyjz0DpJ1ltrno7YyPkIjXVfdOaR_3GWJ5rgTANoZkV24_tVPkhQOw5wctQuhyphenhyphend_5gj2qUha7nTnWmdSOJrLxHuKEAbCq_nPVS-bgB-LwB_J1zAvwzLY0eNjkGh8/s640/impact_of_the_cloud.png" /></a> </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Neil Delaney, International SMB Director, Google Apps for Work</span> <br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> From the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter">typewriter</a> to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_pencil">propelling pencil</a> to our favorite, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web">world wide web</a>, inventors and innovators from the United Kingdom have brought us brilliant advances that have changed the way we work all around the world. Over the next few weeks, we’ll share a handful of stories from disrupters and trailblazers in the UK who are using <a href="https://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/">Google Apps for Work</a> to support their mission while growing at faster and faster speeds. Today, Neil Delaney, International SMB Director for Google Apps for Work, shares insights from a new <a href="http://services.google.com/fh/files/emails/smallbusiness-bigtechnology.pdf">research report</a> from Google and Deloitte on how cloud technology helps businesses overcome growth challenges. </i> <br /> <br /> Fast growth often seems an elusive concept, something a lucky few tech start ups capture for a few fleeting years before slowing to smaller, incremental advances. But a new report we commissioned with Deloitte, <a href="http://services.google.com/fh/files/emails/smallbusiness-bigtechnology.pdf">Small business, big technology: How the cloud enables rapid growth in SMBs</a>, paints both a more complex and uplifting picture — that small and medium businesses are using cloud technology to overcome growth challenges and scale and grow faster. The research explores the operating practices and strategies of businesses in the United States and Europe with up to 750 employees, and suggests that SMBs should move tools and applications to the cloud in order to free up time, capital and resources, and to establish a platform for sustainable rapid growth. Here are a few of the key insights we discovered. <br /> <br /> <b>Cloud technology unlocks faster scaling and growth opportunities </b>Eighty-five percent of SMBs reported that cloud technology enables them to scale and grow faster, while sixty-six percent said that the cloud allows them to outperform against their competitors. It’s this ability to leapfrog other companies and scale rapidly that makes cloud an essential part of any small business’s strategy. <br /> <br /> <b>Cloud technology has a bright future </b>Sixty-six percent of companies expect to increase their use of cloud-based technology in the next three years. This is another trend prevalent amongst companies who have gone Google, who begin adopting cloud services early on in their development and, through experimentation and iteration, begin to adopt more and more cloud solutions across their business processes. Businesses using an above average number of cloud services also grow 26 percent faster and drive 21 percent more profit than those that use no cloud tools. <br /> <br /> <b>The cloud is favoured by both startups and established companies </b>It’s not just startups that use the cloud as a tool for fast growth: 79 percent of relatively mature companies — those older than 5 years who are growing at less than 10% per year — believe cloud technology enables them to access new markets and revenue streams. This will become even more important as organisations adopt more digital tools in order to expand into new regions or product areas. <br /> <br /> <b>Fast growth in action </b>One businesses that knows firsthand the power of embracing digital technology to drive fast growth is <a href="http://googleforwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/madecom-designs-furniture-movement-with.html">Made.com</a>, an online retailer that’s grown to 150 employees across four countries in just four years — and become a household name in the UK along the way. Made.com has <a href="http://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2014/09/madecom-designs-furniture-movement-with.html">relied on Google Apps for Work</a> from its founding days to build a culture of collaboration and innovation, and cites the cloud tools as a key driver in its ability to grow quickly and at scale. “Google for Work” they <a href="https://twitter.com/madedotcom/status/514393808659034113">said</a> recently, “helps us connect, communicate and collaborate.” <br /> <br /> Keep your eye on the Google for Work blog over the coming weeks for three more fast growth stories from companies that have gone Google and rapidly scaled the business food chain. You can read the full report on fast growth and the impact of cloud technology on businesses <a href="http://services.google.com/fh/files/emails/smallbusiness-bigtechnology.pdf">here</a>. <br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji20x5Ro1WGazW6uquyjz0DpJ1ltrno7YyPkIjXVfdOaR_3GWJ5rgTANoZkV24_tVPkhQOw5wctQuhyphenhyphend_5gj2qUha7nTnWmdSOJrLxHuKEAbCq_nPVS-bgB-LwB_J1zAvwzLY0eNjkGh8/s1600/impact_of_the_cloud.png" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji20x5Ro1WGazW6uquyjz0DpJ1ltrno7YyPkIjXVfdOaR_3GWJ5rgTANoZkV24_tVPkhQOw5wctQuhyphenhyphend_5gj2qUha7nTnWmdSOJrLxHuKEAbCq_nPVS-bgB-LwB_J1zAvwzLY0eNjkGh8/s640/impact_of_the_cloud.png" /></a> </div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/09/small-business-big-technology-how-cloud.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Small business, big technology: How the cloud enables rapid growth in SMBs&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/09/small-business-big-technology-how-cloud.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/09/small-business-big-technology-how-cloud.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='3' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/09/small-business-big-technology-how-cloud.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/09/small-business-big-technology-how-cloud.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/09/small-business-big-technology-how-cloud.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Cloud' rel='tag'> Cloud </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps%20for%20Work' rel='tag'> Google Apps for Work </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='8298265551641117959' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/10/how-to-get-to-cloud-5-easy-steps.html' itemprop='url' title='How to get to the cloud: 5 easy steps'> How to get to the cloud: 5 easy steps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, October 30, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author"><i>Posted by Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google</i></span> <br /><br />Earlier this month, I delivered a keynote at Gartner’s annual symposium and published a <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/10/rebirth-of-it.html">blog post</a> about the rapidly evolving landscape of business technology. The rise of cloud computing and ubiquitous, powerful mobile devices means that organizations can reduce their IT bills significantly while boosting employees’ productivity and collaboration. Moving to the cloud is no longer a questionable proposition — it’s inevitable.<br /><br />This led some of the organizations I work with to ask: “That all makes sense, but how do we actually get started?” <br /><br />Good question. Here are five concrete steps you can take to get started:<br /><div style="text-align: left;"></div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Start by setting up a Google Apps account for your organization.</b> This will allow you to move your standard productivity and communications work to the cloud: you’ll use Gmail for your email (with your own domain, like joe@joescoffeeshop.com); Google Calendar for your calendars; Google Drive to store files; Google Docs to create and edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations; and Hangouts to send instant messages and hold video calls. This will free your staff from spending time maintaining servers and installing upgrades. <a href="//google.com/apps" target="_blank">Google Apps</a> is free to schools and non-profits, and costs $50/person per year for businesses and government agencies.</li><li><b>Move your other standard business applications to cloud-based equivalents. </b>Popular apps include Workday (HR), Salesforce (CRM), Zendesk (customer service), Netsuite (Financials), and Wix or Weebly (websites). More companies are creating and launching cloud-based business applications every day — check out the <a href="http://chrome.google.com/webstore">Chrome Web Store</a> for more.</li><li><b>Move your custom applications to a cloud infrastructure. </b>Many organizations have built their own custom applications or need to be able to do very specialized programming. Most people use Amazon Web Services, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/">Google Cloud Platform</a> or Microsoft Azure. Choose between the first two.</li><li><b>Standardize on a modern browser, ideally Chrome.</b> Chrome is built for speed, simplicity and security — and of course it’s free. To make sure that you're protected from the latest threats, Chrome automatically updates whenever a new version of the browser is available. You can also use Chrome on all the major desktop and mobile platforms, including Android and iOS, and <a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2591582?hl=en">sync your tabs</a> and bookmarks between different devices. <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/">Chrome for Business</a> includes a cloud-based management console, which lets you customize policies and preferences for your employees easily from the web, including which apps and extensions they receive, across their devices.</li><li><b>For hardware, you can now move to a flexible, “bring your own device” policy. </b>Without servers, the only real hardware you need are computers and phones — and a true cloud architecture works well with any operating system: Windows, Mac, Chrome OS, Android, iOS. People can choose the device that suits them, and you can then reimburse their purchases and/or their own personal cell phone and internet bills. If you do decide to supply your staff with computers, consider <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/" target="_blank">Chromebooks</a>: they boot up in seconds, have built-in virus protection and are dead simple to deploy and manage.</li></ol><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-32259680-0a10-be52-5805-567f60a22228"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*    *    *</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div>Lots of companies have already moved to the cloud successfully, from local <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-apps-helps-philz-coffee-focus-on.html">coffee shops</a> to <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/04/report-from-down-under-woolworths-goes.html">major corporations with 200,000 employees</a>. For small and mid-size companies, the transition can be made in a matter of days or weeks. For larger companies, who often have custom legacy systems built over many years, the migration may take a few months. In these cases, consider working with <a href="//www.google.com/a/partnersearch/#home">experts that specialize</a> in helping companies move to the cloud using all the tools I’ve mentioned. <br /><br />The world is moving to the cloud. Now’s the time for you to move, too. </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author"><i>Posted by Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google</i></span> <br /><br />Earlier this month, I delivered a keynote at Gartner’s annual symposium and published a <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/10/rebirth-of-it.html">blog post</a> about the rapidly evolving landscape of business technology. The rise of cloud computing and ubiquitous, powerful mobile devices means that organizations can reduce their IT bills significantly while boosting employees’ productivity and collaboration. Moving to the cloud is no longer a questionable proposition — it’s inevitable.<br /><br />This led some of the organizations I work with to ask: “That all makes sense, but how do we actually get started?” <br /><br />Good question. Here are five concrete steps you can take to get started:<br /><div style="text-align: left;"></div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Start by setting up a Google Apps account for your organization.</b> This will allow you to move your standard productivity and communications work to the cloud: you’ll use Gmail for your email (with your own domain, like joe@joescoffeeshop.com); Google Calendar for your calendars; Google Drive to store files; Google Docs to create and edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations; and Hangouts to send instant messages and hold video calls. This will free your staff from spending time maintaining servers and installing upgrades. <a href="//google.com/apps" target="_blank">Google Apps</a> is free to schools and non-profits, and costs $50/person per year for businesses and government agencies.</li><li><b>Move your other standard business applications to cloud-based equivalents. </b>Popular apps include Workday (HR), Salesforce (CRM), Zendesk (customer service), Netsuite (Financials), and Wix or Weebly (websites). More companies are creating and launching cloud-based business applications every day — check out the <a href="http://chrome.google.com/webstore">Chrome Web Store</a> for more.</li><li><b>Move your custom applications to a cloud infrastructure. </b>Many organizations have built their own custom applications or need to be able to do very specialized programming. Most people use Amazon Web Services, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/">Google Cloud Platform</a> or Microsoft Azure. Choose between the first two.</li><li><b>Standardize on a modern browser, ideally Chrome.</b> Chrome is built for speed, simplicity and security — and of course it’s free. To make sure that you're protected from the latest threats, Chrome automatically updates whenever a new version of the browser is available. You can also use Chrome on all the major desktop and mobile platforms, including Android and iOS, and <a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2591582?hl=en">sync your tabs</a> and bookmarks between different devices. <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/">Chrome for Business</a> includes a cloud-based management console, which lets you customize policies and preferences for your employees easily from the web, including which apps and extensions they receive, across their devices.</li><li><b>For hardware, you can now move to a flexible, “bring your own device” policy. </b>Without servers, the only real hardware you need are computers and phones — and a true cloud architecture works well with any operating system: Windows, Mac, Chrome OS, Android, iOS. People can choose the device that suits them, and you can then reimburse their purchases and/or their own personal cell phone and internet bills. If you do decide to supply your staff with computers, consider <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/" target="_blank">Chromebooks</a>: they boot up in seconds, have built-in virus protection and are dead simple to deploy and manage.</li></ol><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-32259680-0a10-be52-5805-567f60a22228"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*    *    *</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div>Lots of companies have already moved to the cloud successfully, from local <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-apps-helps-philz-coffee-focus-on.html">coffee shops</a> to <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/04/report-from-down-under-woolworths-goes.html">major corporations with 200,000 employees</a>. For small and mid-size companies, the transition can be made in a matter of days or weeks. For larger companies, who often have custom legacy systems built over many years, the migration may take a few months. In these cases, consider working with <a href="//www.google.com/a/partnersearch/#home">experts that specialize</a> in helping companies move to the cloud using all the tools I’ve mentioned. <br /><br />The world is moving to the cloud. Now’s the time for you to move, too. </div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/10/how-to-get-to-cloud-5-easy-steps.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:How to get to the cloud: 5 easy steps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/10/how-to-get-to-cloud-5-easy-steps.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/10/how-to-get-to-cloud-5-easy-steps.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='3' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/10/how-to-get-to-cloud-5-easy-steps.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/10/how-to-get-to-cloud-5-easy-steps.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/10/how-to-get-to-cloud-5-easy-steps.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chrome' rel='tag'> Chrome </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chrome%20for%20Business' rel='tag'> Chrome for Business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Cloud' rel='tag'> Cloud </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Cloud%20Platform' rel='tag'> Google Cloud Platform </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='3402178311132513382' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/10/rebirth-of-it.html' itemprop='url' title='Rebirth of IT '> Rebirth of IT </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, October 8, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google</span> <br /><br />Yesterday I had the chance to deliver the keynote at the <a href="http://www.gartner.com/technology/symposium/orlando/" target="_blank">Gartner ITExpo</a> in Orlando. I took this opportunity to reflect on how business technology has evolved in the three years since I last spoke on this stage — and, as part of that, how Google’s commitment to enterprise customers has grown.<br /><br />In 2010, the suggestion that a company could move all of its employees to the cloud was often met with skepticism. People relied on desktop computers and Exchange servers because that was what they’d used in the workplace for the past two decades. And, the few companies that did embrace the cloud tended to see it as a more cost-effective way to do things they’d always done. But over time, they started to recognize the transformational benefits of working in the cloud.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNStG4JPy3O9Fq9fI7ORoWGCq-YaXD5WTQoKa1vhkyTnLPC-BBJyKD49nSSy_KEp2oUhLYmOglQRamJ5uZnxWkcMNR4Pyav5ReSflBH6e0sEWAM2BFu1UWrAuTNiRSuAObFgPY16ScDCk/s1600/IMG_2654+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNStG4JPy3O9Fq9fI7ORoWGCq-YaXD5WTQoKa1vhkyTnLPC-BBJyKD49nSSy_KEp2oUhLYmOglQRamJ5uZnxWkcMNR4Pyav5ReSflBH6e0sEWAM2BFu1UWrAuTNiRSuAObFgPY16ScDCk/s400/IMG_2654+%25281%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Today, moving to the cloud is not a questionable proposition — it’s inevitable. This is good news for IT staff, who don’t need to spend time maintaining servers and installing upgrades, and also for employees, since the cloud makes it easy to collaborate and get more stuff done quickly. Sooner than almost anyone thought possible, hundreds of large-scale companies have succeeded in moving their businesses to the cloud, paving the way for millions more to follow. Consider a few recent examples:<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/04/report-from-down-under-woolworths-goes.html" target="_blank">Woolworths</a> is Australia’s largest retailer, with more than 3,000 stores and a staff of 200,000. They moved to Google Apps and Chrome.</li><li>The <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/04/for-malaysia-bringing-google-apps-and.html" target="_blank">country of Malaysia</a> adopted Google Apps for 10 million students, teachers and parents, and deployed Chromebooks to schools nationwide.</li><li>And yesterday, <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/10/whirlpool-moves-to-google-apps-to-build.html" target="_blank">Whirlpool</a> — which owns Maytag and KitchenAid — announced that they’re rolling out Google Apps to help 30,000 employees collaborate and innovate more quickly.</li></ul><br />These organizations realize that the cloud is not just a cheaper way to maintain the status quo, but also a way to fundamentally transform the way a business is run and how people can get work done together. Inviting 50 people to collaborate on a Google document in real-time is an order of magnitude more efficient than sending attachments back and forth to those same people. <a href="http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Smartphone-Ownership-2013/Findings.aspx" target="_blank">More than half</a> of Americans now own smartphones, while PC sales are <a href="http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2013/07/10/pc-shipments-drops-11-in-q2-says-gartner-longest-ever-period-of-decline/" target="_blank">steadily declining</a>. In their personal lives, employees expect to check email on their phone and join a video call from their tablet, at any time, from wherever they are. Increasingly, people want to bring these habits to the workplace so they can work the way they live.<br /><br />Companies like Google play a pivotal role in this “consumerization of IT.” More than 425 million people around the world rely on Gmail in their personal lives, and now more than 5 million businesses are using Gmail as part of Google Apps at work. At Google, there are now thousands of employees — a substantial portion of the company — who help us build and support products for these business customers. <br /><br />The real beneficiaries of this rebirth of IT are not technology companies, but the rest of us — <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/06/winemakers-sip-their-way-to-success.html" target="_blank">business owners</a>, <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/07/shaw-industries-goes-lean-for-long-run.html" target="_blank">makers</a>, <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/06/st-joseph-students-create-their-own.html" target="_blank">teachers</a>, <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/01/chicago-public-schools-get-high-marks.html" target="_blank">students</a> and <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/07/city-of-omaha-and-douglas-county-join.html" target="_blank">employees</a>. Having the power of massive data centers and smart mobile devices at our fingertips makes it easier than ever to create, communicate, learn and collaborate. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /></div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google</span> <br /><br />Yesterday I had the chance to deliver the keynote at the <a href="http://www.gartner.com/technology/symposium/orlando/" target="_blank">Gartner ITExpo</a> in Orlando. I took this opportunity to reflect on how business technology has evolved in the three years since I last spoke on this stage — and, as part of that, how Google’s commitment to enterprise customers has grown.<br /><br />In 2010, the suggestion that a company could move all of its employees to the cloud was often met with skepticism. People relied on desktop computers and Exchange servers because that was what they’d used in the workplace for the past two decades. And, the few companies that did embrace the cloud tended to see it as a more cost-effective way to do things they’d always done. But over time, they started to recognize the transformational benefits of working in the cloud.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNStG4JPy3O9Fq9fI7ORoWGCq-YaXD5WTQoKa1vhkyTnLPC-BBJyKD49nSSy_KEp2oUhLYmOglQRamJ5uZnxWkcMNR4Pyav5ReSflBH6e0sEWAM2BFu1UWrAuTNiRSuAObFgPY16ScDCk/s1600/IMG_2654+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNStG4JPy3O9Fq9fI7ORoWGCq-YaXD5WTQoKa1vhkyTnLPC-BBJyKD49nSSy_KEp2oUhLYmOglQRamJ5uZnxWkcMNR4Pyav5ReSflBH6e0sEWAM2BFu1UWrAuTNiRSuAObFgPY16ScDCk/s400/IMG_2654+%25281%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Today, moving to the cloud is not a questionable proposition — it’s inevitable. This is good news for IT staff, who don’t need to spend time maintaining servers and installing upgrades, and also for employees, since the cloud makes it easy to collaborate and get more stuff done quickly. Sooner than almost anyone thought possible, hundreds of large-scale companies have succeeded in moving their businesses to the cloud, paving the way for millions more to follow. Consider a few recent examples:<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/04/report-from-down-under-woolworths-goes.html" target="_blank">Woolworths</a> is Australia’s largest retailer, with more than 3,000 stores and a staff of 200,000. They moved to Google Apps and Chrome.</li><li>The <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/04/for-malaysia-bringing-google-apps-and.html" target="_blank">country of Malaysia</a> adopted Google Apps for 10 million students, teachers and parents, and deployed Chromebooks to schools nationwide.</li><li>And yesterday, <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/10/whirlpool-moves-to-google-apps-to-build.html" target="_blank">Whirlpool</a> — which owns Maytag and KitchenAid — announced that they’re rolling out Google Apps to help 30,000 employees collaborate and innovate more quickly.</li></ul><br />These organizations realize that the cloud is not just a cheaper way to maintain the status quo, but also a way to fundamentally transform the way a business is run and how people can get work done together. Inviting 50 people to collaborate on a Google document in real-time is an order of magnitude more efficient than sending attachments back and forth to those same people. <a href="http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Smartphone-Ownership-2013/Findings.aspx" target="_blank">More than half</a> of Americans now own smartphones, while PC sales are <a href="http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2013/07/10/pc-shipments-drops-11-in-q2-says-gartner-longest-ever-period-of-decline/" target="_blank">steadily declining</a>. In their personal lives, employees expect to check email on their phone and join a video call from their tablet, at any time, from wherever they are. Increasingly, people want to bring these habits to the workplace so they can work the way they live.<br /><br />Companies like Google play a pivotal role in this “consumerization of IT.” More than 425 million people around the world rely on Gmail in their personal lives, and now more than 5 million businesses are using Gmail as part of Google Apps at work. At Google, there are now thousands of employees — a substantial portion of the company — who help us build and support products for these business customers. <br /><br />The real beneficiaries of this rebirth of IT are not technology companies, but the rest of us — <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/06/winemakers-sip-their-way-to-success.html" target="_blank">business owners</a>, <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/07/shaw-industries-goes-lean-for-long-run.html" target="_blank">makers</a>, <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/06/st-joseph-students-create-their-own.html" target="_blank">teachers</a>, <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/01/chicago-public-schools-get-high-marks.html" target="_blank">students</a> and <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/07/city-of-omaha-and-douglas-county-join.html" target="_blank">employees</a>. Having the power of massive data centers and smart mobile devices at our fingertips makes it easier than ever to create, communicate, learn and collaborate. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/10/rebirth-of-it.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Rebirth of IT &url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/10/rebirth-of-it.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/10/rebirth-of-it.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='6' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/10/rebirth-of-it.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/10/rebirth-of-it.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/10/rebirth-of-it.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Cloud' rel='tag'> Cloud </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gartner' rel='tag'> Gartner </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7040469200548617842' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/how-green-is-internet.html' itemprop='url' title='How green is the Internet?'> How green is the Internet? </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, June 11, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Michael Terrell, Senior Policy Counsel, Energy & Sustainability</span><br /><br /><i>(Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-green-is-internet.html" target="_blank">Official Google Blog</a>)</i><br /><br />More than ever, people are using the Internet to shop, read, listen to music and learn. And businesses rely on Internet-based tools to operate and deliver their services efficiently. The Internet has created all kinds of new opportunities for society and the economy—but what does it mean for the environment? <br /><br />We’ve been <a href="//www.google.com/green/efficiency/industry-collaboration/" target="_blank">working to answer</a> that question and enlisted the help of <a href="http://www.lbl.gov/" target="_blank">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</a> (Berkeley Lab) to gather more data. <a href="http://crd.lbl.gov/assets/pubs_presos/ACS/cloud_efficiency_study.pdf" target="_blank">Their study</a> (PDF), released today, shows that migrating all U.S. office workers to the cloud could save up to 87 percent of IT energy use—about 23 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, or enough to power the city of Los Angeles for a year. The savings are associated with shifting people in the workforce to Internet-based applications like email, word processing and customer relationship software. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDSKGoIgQsscFmoAekZOuEfzUsa3-vp1jOLVfNFR6eCkWSimzKL7f_idqh339q7Kgu7oXu1Vjox1qP-hqOpdFNltPV9sQZ1AgpmtmYPlE_ogb9J0SoPN7DXR22EWfcpGWolnTJdU4ESAw/s1600/movingtocloud.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDSKGoIgQsscFmoAekZOuEfzUsa3-vp1jOLVfNFR6eCkWSimzKL7f_idqh339q7Kgu7oXu1Vjox1qP-hqOpdFNltPV9sQZ1AgpmtmYPlE_ogb9J0SoPN7DXR22EWfcpGWolnTJdU4ESAw/s400/movingtocloud.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />These results indicate that the Internet offers huge potential for energy savings. We’re especially excited that Berkeley Lab has made its <a href="http://cleermodel.lbl.gov/" target="_blank">model</a> publicly available so other researchers and experts can plug in their own assumptions and help refine and improve the results. <br /><br />Of course, understanding the impact of shifting office applications to the cloud is only part of the story, which is why last week we hosted a summit called <a href="//www.google.com/green/efficiency/industry-collaboration/" target="_blank">“How Green is the Internet?”</a> to explore these questions in greater detail. At the summit, experts presented data on how the growth of Internet infrastructure, including devices like phones and tablets, can impact the environment. We also saw great excitement about the potential for entirely new Internet-enabled tools in areas like transportation, e-commerce and digital content to deliver huge energy and carbon savings. We’ve <a href="//www.google.com/green/efficiency/industry-collaboration/" target="_blank">posted the videos</a> from those sessions and invite you to take a look. <br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/wpZ4OgWgit8" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />One of our goals in hosting the summit and supporting the Berkeley Lab study was to identify and encourage new research on this topic. We’ll continue to work to answer some of these questions, and we hope others will too. </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Michael Terrell, Senior Policy Counsel, Energy & Sustainability</span><br /><br /><i>(Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-green-is-internet.html" target="_blank">Official Google Blog</a>)</i><br /><br />More than ever, people are using the Internet to shop, read, listen to music and learn. And businesses rely on Internet-based tools to operate and deliver their services efficiently. The Internet has created all kinds of new opportunities for society and the economy—but what does it mean for the environment? <br /><br />We’ve been <a href="//www.google.com/green/efficiency/industry-collaboration/" target="_blank">working to answer</a> that question and enlisted the help of <a href="http://www.lbl.gov/" target="_blank">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</a> (Berkeley Lab) to gather more data. <a href="http://crd.lbl.gov/assets/pubs_presos/ACS/cloud_efficiency_study.pdf" target="_blank">Their study</a> (PDF), released today, shows that migrating all U.S. office workers to the cloud could save up to 87 percent of IT energy use—about 23 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, or enough to power the city of Los Angeles for a year. The savings are associated with shifting people in the workforce to Internet-based applications like email, word processing and customer relationship software. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDSKGoIgQsscFmoAekZOuEfzUsa3-vp1jOLVfNFR6eCkWSimzKL7f_idqh339q7Kgu7oXu1Vjox1qP-hqOpdFNltPV9sQZ1AgpmtmYPlE_ogb9J0SoPN7DXR22EWfcpGWolnTJdU4ESAw/s1600/movingtocloud.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDSKGoIgQsscFmoAekZOuEfzUsa3-vp1jOLVfNFR6eCkWSimzKL7f_idqh339q7Kgu7oXu1Vjox1qP-hqOpdFNltPV9sQZ1AgpmtmYPlE_ogb9J0SoPN7DXR22EWfcpGWolnTJdU4ESAw/s400/movingtocloud.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />These results indicate that the Internet offers huge potential for energy savings. We’re especially excited that Berkeley Lab has made its <a href="http://cleermodel.lbl.gov/" target="_blank">model</a> publicly available so other researchers and experts can plug in their own assumptions and help refine and improve the results. <br /><br />Of course, understanding the impact of shifting office applications to the cloud is only part of the story, which is why last week we hosted a summit called <a href="//www.google.com/green/efficiency/industry-collaboration/" target="_blank">“How Green is the Internet?”</a> to explore these questions in greater detail. At the summit, experts presented data on how the growth of Internet infrastructure, including devices like phones and tablets, can impact the environment. We also saw great excitement about the potential for entirely new Internet-enabled tools in areas like transportation, e-commerce and digital content to deliver huge energy and carbon savings. We’ve <a href="//www.google.com/green/efficiency/industry-collaboration/" target="_blank">posted the videos</a> from those sessions and invite you to take a look. <br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/wpZ4OgWgit8" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />One of our goals in hosting the summit and supporting the Berkeley Lab study was to identify and encourage new research on this topic. We’ll continue to work to answer some of these questions, and we hope others will too. </div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/how-green-is-internet.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:How green is the Internet?&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/how-green-is-internet.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/how-green-is-internet.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='2' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/how-green-is-internet.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/how-green-is-internet.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/how-green-is-internet.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='3908390734339859440' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/05/ushering-in-next-generation-of.html' itemprop='url' title='Ushering in the next generation of computing at Google I/O'> Ushering in the next generation of computing at Google I/O </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, May 15, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by </span><a href="https://plus.sandbox.google.com/+UrsH%C3%B6lzle/posts" target="_blank">Urs Holzle</a>, Senior Vice President<br /><br /><i>(Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Google Cloud Platform Blog</a> and <a href="http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Google Developers Blog</a>)</i><br /><br /><a href="https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/333265959" target="_blank">Watch the live stream of the Cloud track kickoff now</a><br /><br />Over the last fourteen years we have been developing some of the best infrastructure in the world to power Google’s global-scale services. With<a href="https://cloud.google.com/" target="_blank"> Google Cloud Platform</a>, our goal is to open that infrastructure and make it available to any business or developer anywhere. Today, we are introducing improvements to the platform and making <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine" target="_blank">Google Compute Engine</a> available for anyone to use. <br /><br /><b>Google Compute Engine - now available for everyone </b><br /><br />Google Compute Engine provides a fast, consistently high-performance environment for running virtual machines. Later today, you’ll be able to go online to <a href="http://cloud.google.com/">cloud.google.com</a> and start using Compute Engine. <br /><br />In addition, we’re introducing new Compute Engine features:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Sub-hour billing charges</b> for instances in one-minute increments with a ten-minute minimum, so you don’t pay for compute minutes that you don’t use </li><li><b>Shared-core instances</b> provide smaller instance shapes for low-intensity workloads </li><li><b>Advanced Routing</b> features help you create gateways and VPN servers that enable you to build applications spanning your local network and Google’s cloud </li><li>Large <b>persistent disks</b> support up to 10 terabytes per volume, which translates to 10X the industry standard</li></ul>We’ve also completed ISO 27001:2005 international security certification for Compute Engine, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/" target="_blank">Google App Engine,</a> and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage" target="_blank">Google Cloud Storage</a>. <br /><br /><b>Google App Engine adds the PHP runtime </b><br /><br /><a href="https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/w/list" target="_blank">App Engine 1.8.0</a> is now available and includes a Limited Preview of the <a href="https://gaeforphp.appspot.com/" target="_blank">PHP runtime</a> - your <a href="https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list" target="_blank">top requested feature</a>. We’re bringing one of the most popular web programming languages to App Engine so that you can run open source apps like Wordpress. It also offers deep integration with other parts of Cloud Platform including <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-sql" target="_blank">Google Cloud SQL</a> and Cloud Storage. <br /><br />We’ve also heard that we need to make building modularized applications on App Engine easier. We are <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/1qjuLxnAHQeq2YQMCMAITbC6St_NrfzHDxrbkuTqvmfY/viewform" target="_blank">introducing</a> the ability to partition apps into components with separate scaling, deployments, versioning and performance settings. <br /><br /><b>Introducing Google Cloud Datastore </b><br /><br /><a href="https://developers.google.com/appengine/" target="_blank">Google Cloud Datastore</a> is a fully managed and schemaless solution for storing non-relational data. Based on the popular <a href="https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/" target="_blank">App Engine High Replication Datastore</a>, Cloud Datastore is a standalone service that features automatic scalability and high availability while still providing powerful capabilities such as ACID transactions, SQL-like queries, indexes and more. <br /><br />Over the last year we have continued our focus on feature enhancement and developer experience across <a href="http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/04/app-engine-177-released_9.html" target="_blank">App Engine</a>, <a href="http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/04/google-compute-engine-expanded.html" target="_blank">Compute Engine</a>, <a href="http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/03/bigquery-gets-big-new-features-to-make.html" target="_blank">Google BigQuery</a>, <a href="http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/11/google-cloud-storage-more-value-for.html" target="_blank">Cloud Storage</a> and <a href="http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/11/get-started-at-no-cost-with-faster.html" target="_blank">Cloud SQL</a>. We also introduced <a href="http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/02/java-7-and-cloud-endpoints-preview.html" target="_blank">Google Cloud Endpoints</a> and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/console" target="_blank">Google Cloud Console</a>. <br /><br />With these improvements, we have seen increased usage with over 3 million applications and over 300,000 unique developers using Cloud Platform in a given month. Our developers inspire us everyday, and we can’t wait to see what you build next.<br /><br /></div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by </span><a href="https://plus.sandbox.google.com/+UrsH%C3%B6lzle/posts" target="_blank">Urs Holzle</a>, Senior Vice President<br /><br /><i>(Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Google Cloud Platform Blog</a> and <a href="http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Google Developers Blog</a>)</i><br /><br /><a href="https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/333265959" target="_blank">Watch the live stream of the Cloud track kickoff now</a><br /><br />Over the last fourteen years we have been developing some of the best infrastructure in the world to power Google’s global-scale services. With<a href="https://cloud.google.com/" target="_blank"> Google Cloud Platform</a>, our goal is to open that infrastructure and make it available to any business or developer anywhere. Today, we are introducing improvements to the platform and making <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine" target="_blank">Google Compute Engine</a> available for anyone to use. <br /><br /><b>Google Compute Engine - now available for everyone </b><br /><br />Google Compute Engine provides a fast, consistently high-performance environment for running virtual machines. Later today, you’ll be able to go online to <a href="http://cloud.google.com/">cloud.google.com</a> and start using Compute Engine. <br /><br />In addition, we’re introducing new Compute Engine features:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Sub-hour billing charges</b> for instances in one-minute increments with a ten-minute minimum, so you don’t pay for compute minutes that you don’t use </li><li><b>Shared-core instances</b> provide smaller instance shapes for low-intensity workloads </li><li><b>Advanced Routing</b> features help you create gateways and VPN servers that enable you to build applications spanning your local network and Google’s cloud </li><li>Large <b>persistent disks</b> support up to 10 terabytes per volume, which translates to 10X the industry standard</li></ul>We’ve also completed ISO 27001:2005 international security certification for Compute Engine, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/" target="_blank">Google App Engine,</a> and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage" target="_blank">Google Cloud Storage</a>. <br /><br /><b>Google App Engine adds the PHP runtime </b><br /><br /><a href="https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/w/list" target="_blank">App Engine 1.8.0</a> is now available and includes a Limited Preview of the <a href="https://gaeforphp.appspot.com/" target="_blank">PHP runtime</a> - your <a href="https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list" target="_blank">top requested feature</a>. We’re bringing one of the most popular web programming languages to App Engine so that you can run open source apps like Wordpress. It also offers deep integration with other parts of Cloud Platform including <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-sql" target="_blank">Google Cloud SQL</a> and Cloud Storage. <br /><br />We’ve also heard that we need to make building modularized applications on App Engine easier. We are <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/1qjuLxnAHQeq2YQMCMAITbC6St_NrfzHDxrbkuTqvmfY/viewform" target="_blank">introducing</a> the ability to partition apps into components with separate scaling, deployments, versioning and performance settings. <br /><br /><b>Introducing Google Cloud Datastore </b><br /><br /><a href="https://developers.google.com/appengine/" target="_blank">Google Cloud Datastore</a> is a fully managed and schemaless solution for storing non-relational data. Based on the popular <a href="https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/" target="_blank">App Engine High Replication Datastore</a>, Cloud Datastore is a standalone service that features automatic scalability and high availability while still providing powerful capabilities such as ACID transactions, SQL-like queries, indexes and more. <br /><br />Over the last year we have continued our focus on feature enhancement and developer experience across <a href="http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/04/app-engine-177-released_9.html" target="_blank">App Engine</a>, <a href="http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/04/google-compute-engine-expanded.html" target="_blank">Compute Engine</a>, <a href="http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/03/bigquery-gets-big-new-features-to-make.html" target="_blank">Google BigQuery</a>, <a href="http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/11/google-cloud-storage-more-value-for.html" target="_blank">Cloud Storage</a> and <a href="http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/11/get-started-at-no-cost-with-faster.html" target="_blank">Cloud SQL</a>. We also introduced <a href="http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/02/java-7-and-cloud-endpoints-preview.html" target="_blank">Google Cloud Endpoints</a> and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/console" target="_blank">Google Cloud Console</a>. <br /><br />With these improvements, we have seen increased usage with over 3 million applications and over 300,000 unique developers using Cloud Platform in a given month. Our developers inspire us everyday, and we can’t wait to see what you build next.<br /><br /></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/05/ushering-in-next-generation-of.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Ushering in the next generation of computing at Google I/O&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/05/ushering-in-next-generation-of.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/05/ushering-in-next-generation-of.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/05/ushering-in-next-generation-of.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/05/ushering-in-next-generation-of.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/05/ushering-in-next-generation-of.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20platform' rel='tag'> cloud platform </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4156756038150832748' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-apps-is-hit-at-classic-cinemas.html' itemprop='url' title='Google Apps Is a Hit At Classic Cinemas'> Google Apps Is a Hit At Classic Cinemas </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, February 27, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Tristan Dobbs, Managing Director of IT for Classic Cinemas</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Our guest blogger this week is Tristan Dobbs, Technical Services Team Guru for <a href="http://www.classiccinemas.com/">Classic Cinemas</a>, a family-owned movie theater chain based in Downers Grove, IL. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-ClassicCinemas02272013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90SEuWTe_17AsTnsGO32mWSDbo03rWCKHl-nji7gf_h3dc905BrInYVlzMrvbfHM8Y6uKiB7xiKMn8rzXk0o3CyU7MumQDDGMqqOfTkJtv2LpDpGfqsawm-gI-A-xjLdSvWMBpVVO1D4/s1600/classic-cinemas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90SEuWTe_17AsTnsGO32mWSDbo03rWCKHl-nji7gf_h3dc905BrInYVlzMrvbfHM8Y6uKiB7xiKMn8rzXk0o3CyU7MumQDDGMqqOfTkJtv2LpDpGfqsawm-gI-A-xjLdSvWMBpVVO1D4/s400/classic-cinemas.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Classic Cinemas has been bringing families, couples, kids and film enthusiasts together in front of the silver screen for more than thirty years – around the time Christopher Reeve donned the famous tights and cape for “Superman” in 1978. Over the years, we’ve grown to 500 employees and over 13 movie theaters in and around Chicago. We’ve also outgrown the film technology we started with. After years of using 35-millimeter film projection systems, we upgraded to 4K Ultra High-Def Digital Projectors. We’re a true 21st century cinema.<br /><br />When I joined the IT department in 2012, it was clear we were in need of another upgrade – this time, from our Microsoft Exchange server. We had ongoing issues with downtime that cost the company a lot of money and the IT team a lot of time. We looked into cloud-based systems and Google Apps was exactly what we needed – the 99.9 percent uptime sold us. <br /><br />We switched to Google Apps with the help of <a href="http://www.cloudsherpas.com/">Cloud Sherpas</a> in August 2012 and couldn’t have been in better hands. At no point did we ever have a question that they couldn't answer. Data migration? They walked us through each step along the way and made sure we didn't lose a single megabyte. Change management? They ran webinars for all of our employees about moving from Outlook to Gmail, Word to Docs and Folders to Labels. They made switching feel seamless. <br /><br />We created an employee intranet on Google Sites that houses all our necessary documents – employee schedules, upcoming screenings, movie schedules and parking lists, among others. This means everything important sits in one single place, and everyone on the team can access it. No more wild goose chases over email and no more bothering groups of people with email barrages. <br /><br />Google Apps also helped us bring our maintenance request system up to date. Before we switched over, people wrote out their problems in a Word doc and emailed them to us, then we printed them out, tracked them on a bulletin board, and took them down one by one as the maintenance team went on-site to handle each issue. With Cloud Sherpas’ help, we built a Google Form on our intranet, so now everyone submits their requests online. The Form automatically feeds into a spreadsheet, which alerts the maintenance team that work needs to be done. We’ve been able to dramatically reduce administration time and boost our productivity to a new level. We now have complete history and statistics capabilities, as well as the ability to identify trends and be more proactive. <br /><br />Just as digital technology helped us move into the modern era of film, Google Apps has helped us adapt to the future of business. It’s been a smash hit for us - just like “Superman” was back in the day. </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Tristan Dobbs, Managing Director of IT for Classic Cinemas</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Our guest blogger this week is Tristan Dobbs, Technical Services Team Guru for <a href="http://www.classiccinemas.com/">Classic Cinemas</a>, a family-owned movie theater chain based in Downers Grove, IL. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-ClassicCinemas02272013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90SEuWTe_17AsTnsGO32mWSDbo03rWCKHl-nji7gf_h3dc905BrInYVlzMrvbfHM8Y6uKiB7xiKMn8rzXk0o3CyU7MumQDDGMqqOfTkJtv2LpDpGfqsawm-gI-A-xjLdSvWMBpVVO1D4/s1600/classic-cinemas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90SEuWTe_17AsTnsGO32mWSDbo03rWCKHl-nji7gf_h3dc905BrInYVlzMrvbfHM8Y6uKiB7xiKMn8rzXk0o3CyU7MumQDDGMqqOfTkJtv2LpDpGfqsawm-gI-A-xjLdSvWMBpVVO1D4/s400/classic-cinemas.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Classic Cinemas has been bringing families, couples, kids and film enthusiasts together in front of the silver screen for more than thirty years – around the time Christopher Reeve donned the famous tights and cape for “Superman” in 1978. Over the years, we’ve grown to 500 employees and over 13 movie theaters in and around Chicago. We’ve also outgrown the film technology we started with. After years of using 35-millimeter film projection systems, we upgraded to 4K Ultra High-Def Digital Projectors. We’re a true 21st century cinema.<br /><br />When I joined the IT department in 2012, it was clear we were in need of another upgrade – this time, from our Microsoft Exchange server. We had ongoing issues with downtime that cost the company a lot of money and the IT team a lot of time. We looked into cloud-based systems and Google Apps was exactly what we needed – the 99.9 percent uptime sold us. <br /><br />We switched to Google Apps with the help of <a href="http://www.cloudsherpas.com/">Cloud Sherpas</a> in August 2012 and couldn’t have been in better hands. At no point did we ever have a question that they couldn't answer. Data migration? They walked us through each step along the way and made sure we didn't lose a single megabyte. Change management? They ran webinars for all of our employees about moving from Outlook to Gmail, Word to Docs and Folders to Labels. They made switching feel seamless. <br /><br />We created an employee intranet on Google Sites that houses all our necessary documents – employee schedules, upcoming screenings, movie schedules and parking lists, among others. This means everything important sits in one single place, and everyone on the team can access it. No more wild goose chases over email and no more bothering groups of people with email barrages. <br /><br />Google Apps also helped us bring our maintenance request system up to date. Before we switched over, people wrote out their problems in a Word doc and emailed them to us, then we printed them out, tracked them on a bulletin board, and took them down one by one as the maintenance team went on-site to handle each issue. With Cloud Sherpas’ help, we built a Google Form on our intranet, so now everyone submits their requests online. The Form automatically feeds into a spreadsheet, which alerts the maintenance team that work needs to be done. We’ve been able to dramatically reduce administration time and boost our productivity to a new level. We now have complete history and statistics capabilities, as well as the ability to identify trends and be more proactive. <br /><br />Just as digital technology helped us move into the modern era of film, Google Apps has helped us adapt to the future of business. It’s been a smash hit for us - just like “Superman” was back in the day. </div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-apps-is-hit-at-classic-cinemas.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Google Apps Is a Hit At Classic Cinemas&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-apps-is-hit-at-classic-cinemas.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-apps-is-hit-at-classic-cinemas.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='8' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-apps-is-hit-at-classic-cinemas.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-apps-is-hit-at-classic-cinemas.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-apps-is-hit-at-classic-cinemas.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Customer%20testimonial' rel='tag'> Customer testimonial </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps%20Reseller' rel='tag'> Google Apps Reseller </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/partner' rel='tag'> partner </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/partners' rel='tag'> partners </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/SMB' rel='tag'> SMB </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7907925342052770348' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-cloud-platform-introduces-new.html' itemprop='url' title='Google Cloud Platform introduces new support packages'> Google Cloud Platform introduces new support packages </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, February 21, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Brett McCully, Google Cloud Platform Team</span><br /><br />Support is as important as product features when choosing a platform for your applications. And let’s face it, sometimes we all need a bit of help. No matter which <a href="https://cloud.google.com/">Google Cloud Platform</a> services you are using—App Engine, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, etc.—or what time of day, you should be able to get the answers you need. While you can go to Stack Overflow or Google Groups, we realize some of you may need 24x7 coverage, phone support or direct access to a Technical Account Manager team. <br /><br />To meet your support requirements, we’re introducing a comprehensive collection of support packages for services on Google Cloud Platform, so you can decide what level best fits your needs:<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Bronze</b>: All customers get access to online documentation, community forums, and billing support. (Free) </li><li><b>Silver</b>: In addition to Bronze, you can email our support team for questions related to product functionality, best practices, and service errors. ($150/month) </li><li><b>Gold</b>: In addition to Silver, you'll receive 24x7 phone support and consultation on application development, best practices or architecture for your specific use case. (Starts at $400/month) </li><li><b>Platinum</b>: The most comprehensive and personalized support. In addition to Gold, you’ll get direct access to a Technical Account Manager team. (<a href="https://cloud.google.com/support/signup">Contact Sales</a> for more information)</li></ul><br /><a href="https://cloud.google.com/support/signup">Sign up</a> or click <a href="https://cloud.google.com/support/packages">here</a> to find out more information about the new Google Cloud Platform support options. </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Brett McCully, Google Cloud Platform Team</span><br /><br />Support is as important as product features when choosing a platform for your applications. And let’s face it, sometimes we all need a bit of help. No matter which <a href="https://cloud.google.com/">Google Cloud Platform</a> services you are using—App Engine, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, etc.—or what time of day, you should be able to get the answers you need. While you can go to Stack Overflow or Google Groups, we realize some of you may need 24x7 coverage, phone support or direct access to a Technical Account Manager team. <br /><br />To meet your support requirements, we’re introducing a comprehensive collection of support packages for services on Google Cloud Platform, so you can decide what level best fits your needs:<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Bronze</b>: All customers get access to online documentation, community forums, and billing support. (Free) </li><li><b>Silver</b>: In addition to Bronze, you can email our support team for questions related to product functionality, best practices, and service errors. ($150/month) </li><li><b>Gold</b>: In addition to Silver, you'll receive 24x7 phone support and consultation on application development, best practices or architecture for your specific use case. (Starts at $400/month) </li><li><b>Platinum</b>: The most comprehensive and personalized support. In addition to Gold, you’ll get direct access to a Technical Account Manager team. (<a href="https://cloud.google.com/support/signup">Contact Sales</a> for more information)</li></ul><br /><a href="https://cloud.google.com/support/signup">Sign up</a> or click <a href="https://cloud.google.com/support/packages">here</a> to find out more information about the new Google Cloud Platform support options. </div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-cloud-platform-introduces-new.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Google Cloud Platform introduces new support packages&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-cloud-platform-introduces-new.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-cloud-platform-introduces-new.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-cloud-platform-introduces-new.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-cloud-platform-introduces-new.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-cloud-platform-introduces-new.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/bigquery' rel='tag'> bigquery </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20platform' rel='tag'> cloud platform </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20services' rel='tag'> cloud services </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20sql' rel='tag'> cloud sql </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20App%20Engine' rel='tag'> Google App Engine </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/google%20cloud%20storage' rel='tag'> google cloud storage </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Compute%20Engine' rel='tag'> Google Compute Engine </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/support' rel='tag'> support </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1670329758267202093' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/11/google-cloud-storage-more-value-for.html' itemprop='url' title='Google Cloud Storage - more value for performance'> Google Cloud Storage - more value for performance </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, November 29, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Dave Barth, Product Manager</span><br /><br /><i>(Cross-posted to <a href="http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/11/google-cloud-storage-more-value-for.html">Google Developers Blog</a>)</i> <br /><br /><b id="internal-source-marker_0.7960947244428098" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Earlier this week, we <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/11/google-cloud-platform-new-features.html">announced</a> a collection of improvements across Google Cloud Platform including 36 new Compute Engine instances, Durable Reduced Availability (DRA) storage, Object Versioning, and European datacenter support. We also announced that we are reducing the price of standard Google Cloud Storage by over 20%.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are committed to delivering the best value in the marketplace to businesses and developers looking to operate in the cloud.  That’s why today we are reducing the price of Google Cloud Storage by an additional 10%, resulting in a total price reduction of over 30%.  This price reduction applies to all Cloud Storage regions and the new DRA Storage.</span></b><br /><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-8UGvIbj95Cw/ULcGMCYF_QI/AAAAAAAAA7k/s7Mlq9_iCpw/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-11-28+at+10.33.40+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="246" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-8UGvIbj95Cw/ULcGMCYF_QI/AAAAAAAAA7k/s7Mlq9_iCpw/s400/Screen+shot+2012-11-28+at+10.33.40+PM.png" width="400"></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Find out more about the new <a href="https://cloud.google.com/pricing/cloud-storage">Cloud Storage pricing</a> and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/console?getstarted=https://cloud.google.com">sign up</a> now to get started.</span></b></div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Dave Barth, Product Manager</span><br /><br /><i>(Cross-posted to <a href="http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/11/google-cloud-storage-more-value-for.html">Google Developers Blog</a>)</i> <br /><br /><b id="internal-source-marker_0.7960947244428098" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Earlier this week, we <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/11/google-cloud-platform-new-features.html">announced</a> a collection of improvements across Google Cloud Platform including 36 new Compute Engine instances, Durable Reduced Availability (DRA) storage, Object Versioning, and European datacenter support. We also announced that we are reducing the price of standard Google Cloud Storage by over 20%.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are committed to delivering the best value in the marketplace to businesses and developers looking to operate in the cloud.  That’s why today we are reducing the price of Google Cloud Storage by an additional 10%, resulting in a total price reduction of over 30%.  This price reduction applies to all Cloud Storage regions and the new DRA Storage.</span></b><br /><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-8UGvIbj95Cw/ULcGMCYF_QI/AAAAAAAAA7k/s7Mlq9_iCpw/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-11-28+at+10.33.40+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="246" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-8UGvIbj95Cw/ULcGMCYF_QI/AAAAAAAAA7k/s7Mlq9_iCpw/s400/Screen+shot+2012-11-28+at+10.33.40+PM.png" width="400"></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Find out more about the new <a href="https://cloud.google.com/pricing/cloud-storage">Cloud Storage pricing</a> and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/console?getstarted=https://cloud.google.com">sign up</a> now to get started.</span></b></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/11/google-cloud-storage-more-value-for.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Google Cloud Storage - more value for performance&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/11/google-cloud-storage-more-value-for.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/11/google-cloud-storage-more-value-for.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='55' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/11/google-cloud-storage-more-value-for.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/11/google-cloud-storage-more-value-for.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/11/google-cloud-storage-more-value-for.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20platform' rel='tag'> cloud platform </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20services' rel='tag'> cloud services </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/google%20cloud%20storage' rel='tag'> google cloud storage </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6979330419606862700' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/helping-smbs-save-money-with-cloud.html' itemprop='url' title='Helping SMBs save money with the cloud'> Helping SMBs save money with the cloud </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Friday, October 26, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Rich Rao, Director of Sales and Operations, Google Enterprise</span><br><br>Working with Google and <a href="http://www.analysisgroup.com/">Analysis Group</a>, MIT research scientist <a href="http://andrewmcafee.org/about/">Andrew McAfee</a> recently conducted a <a href="http://policybythenumbers.blogspot.com/2012/10/modeling-costs-of-cloud-vs-on-premise.html">study</a> to understand the comparative costs of a business moving to the cloud versus remaining with a traditional on-premise IT system. In this comparative cost model, McAfee finds that the typical small- to medium-business (SMB) will significantly reduce its IT costs by doing away with its on-premise technology and moving to the cloud. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cqe_GwUXmU4/UIrEQNtl5bI/AAAAAAAAArw/3VTIvrjNH2w/s1600/mcafee_cloud.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="291" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cqe_GwUXmU4/UIrEQNtl5bI/AAAAAAAAArw/3VTIvrjNH2w/s400/mcafee_cloud.png" width="400"></a></div><br>For example, a business with 16-100 computers can expect to save 37% by moving to the cloud – even if there’s no IT labor reduction. With savings achieved by moving to the cloud, these businesses are able to invest in areas that help expand or strengthen their business, whether it’s opening a new branch, starting a new product line, or hiring more people. <br><br>Bill Hipsher, Director of Business Development at <a href="http://www.usstoragesearch.com/">USstoragesearch.com</a> confirms, "Over a one-year period, Google Apps cost one-quarter of what we were spending on our on-premise IT before moving to the cloud – and over our business lifetime, it drops to just one-tenth of the cost. The hardware, software and time savings helped us expand our call center, which led to the creation of more than 30 new jobs this year." <br><br>In his study, McAfee also notes that SMBs' technology use is a strong indicator for the future of IT. Because SMBs are more flexible in their decision-making and aren't bogged down by legacy costs, they're able to choose an IT system that best suits their business. Thus, moving to the cloud frees up money for SMBs to drive business and job growth, and can set a precedent for how large businesses adopt cloud technology. <br><br>At Google, we’re proud to work with <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/search/label/small%20business">SMBs across the country</a> to help them save money and move to the cloud. Visit <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/campaign/smb/#carousel=tiger-lily&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-redirect-na-smb&utm_medium=redirect&utm_term=smb">our website</a> to learn more about moving your business to Google Apps and <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjFVAaH_U6vidG9EdFNrN3FyYTFhMWJERG03MERuX2c#gid=32">explore McAfee’s comparative cost model</a> in Google Sheets to adjust and tailor the model to your business. </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Rich Rao, Director of Sales and Operations, Google Enterprise</span><br><br>Working with Google and <a href="http://www.analysisgroup.com/">Analysis Group</a>, MIT research scientist <a href="http://andrewmcafee.org/about/">Andrew McAfee</a> recently conducted a <a href="http://policybythenumbers.blogspot.com/2012/10/modeling-costs-of-cloud-vs-on-premise.html">study</a> to understand the comparative costs of a business moving to the cloud versus remaining with a traditional on-premise IT system. In this comparative cost model, McAfee finds that the typical small- to medium-business (SMB) will significantly reduce its IT costs by doing away with its on-premise technology and moving to the cloud. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cqe_GwUXmU4/UIrEQNtl5bI/AAAAAAAAArw/3VTIvrjNH2w/s1600/mcafee_cloud.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="291" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cqe_GwUXmU4/UIrEQNtl5bI/AAAAAAAAArw/3VTIvrjNH2w/s400/mcafee_cloud.png" width="400"></a></div><br>For example, a business with 16-100 computers can expect to save 37% by moving to the cloud – even if there’s no IT labor reduction. With savings achieved by moving to the cloud, these businesses are able to invest in areas that help expand or strengthen their business, whether it’s opening a new branch, starting a new product line, or hiring more people. <br><br>Bill Hipsher, Director of Business Development at <a href="http://www.usstoragesearch.com/">USstoragesearch.com</a> confirms, "Over a one-year period, Google Apps cost one-quarter of what we were spending on our on-premise IT before moving to the cloud – and over our business lifetime, it drops to just one-tenth of the cost. The hardware, software and time savings helped us expand our call center, which led to the creation of more than 30 new jobs this year." <br><br>In his study, McAfee also notes that SMBs' technology use is a strong indicator for the future of IT. Because SMBs are more flexible in their decision-making and aren't bogged down by legacy costs, they're able to choose an IT system that best suits their business. Thus, moving to the cloud frees up money for SMBs to drive business and job growth, and can set a precedent for how large businesses adopt cloud technology. <br><br>At Google, we’re proud to work with <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/search/label/small%20business">SMBs across the country</a> to help them save money and move to the cloud. Visit <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/campaign/smb/#carousel=tiger-lily&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-redirect-na-smb&utm_medium=redirect&utm_term=smb">our website</a> to learn more about moving your business to Google Apps and <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjFVAaH_U6vidG9EdFNrN3FyYTFhMWJERG03MERuX2c#gid=32">explore McAfee’s comparative cost model</a> in Google Sheets to adjust and tailor the model to your business. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/helping-smbs-save-money-with-cloud.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Helping SMBs save money with the cloud&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/helping-smbs-save-money-with-cloud.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/helping-smbs-save-money-with-cloud.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/helping-smbs-save-money-with-cloud.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/helping-smbs-save-money-with-cloud.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/helping-smbs-save-money-with-cloud.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='3090843766180461882' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/streak-powers-their-business-on-google.html' itemprop='url' title='Streak powers their business on Google Cloud Platform'> Streak powers their business on Google Cloud Platform </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, October 9, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Aleem Mawani, co-founder of Streak</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editors note:</b> Today’s guest blogger is Aleem Mawani, co-founder of <a href="http://www.streak.com/">Streak</a>, a startup alum of <a href="http://ycombinator.com/">Y Combinator</a>, a Silicon Valley incubator. Streak is a CRM tool built into Gmail. Aleem shares why Streak chose Google Cloud Platform to run their business.</i><br /><br />Everyone relies on email to get work done – yet most people use separate applications from their email to help them with various business processes. Streak fixes this problem by letting you do sales, hiring, fundraising, bug tracking, product development, deal flow, project management and almost any other business process right inside Gmail. We decided to build Streak on <a href="http://cloud.google.com/">Google Cloud Platform</a> to operate at scale, to understand our users and improve the application over time, and to rapidly grow our business. <br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-kramU27E_Uc/UHRS-JY6ILI/AAAAAAAAAsw/nF-KREAn7S0/s1600/screen.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-kramU27E_Uc/UHRS-JY6ILI/AAAAAAAAAsw/nF-KREAn7S0/s400/screen.png" width="500"></a></div><br /></div><br />We chose to build Streak with <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/index">Google App Engine</a> for many reasons: it can handle tons of load; it requires no maintenance; and it guarantees 99.95% uptime. Streak’s user base grew 30% week over week for 4 consecutive months after launch. Being able to handle the load and data requirements at our scale would have required us to hire a full team of backend engineers just to keep the application running. Instead, the Streak backend on App Engine is built and maintained by a single engineer. <br /><br />All of our data is stored in the <a href="https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/">App Engine Datastore</a>, but we also mirror our data using <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage">Google Cloud Storage</a>. As a result, Cloud Storage is a conduit to route this data to other Google cloud services, such as BigQuery and the <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/more-products">Prediction API</a>. <br /><br />Last, we use <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/big-query">Google BigQuery</a> to better understand our users. It allows us to analyze large amounts of data from our usage logs and query it to answer complex questions such as: <br /><br />How much does the average request cost broken down by type? How many users are running an old version of Streak? Are there currently any abnormal error rates in our application? On average, if a user is working in a 3 person team, how many deals do they have assigned to them? <br /><br />We bundle the insights gained from BigQuery and use it to power our dashboards with key business metrics.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-5w18VEZCInY/UHRUaNhqrNI/AAAAAAAAAs4/NLO6MqEaJ9M/s1600/map+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="318" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-5w18VEZCInY/UHRUaNhqrNI/AAAAAAAAAs4/NLO6MqEaJ9M/s400/map+(1).jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.011406981851905584" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of many Streak dashboards powered by BigQuery showing current usage statistics</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br />When we first launched our business, we had gigabytes worth of data. Now, we anticipate growing to terabytes of data in just a few months. We couldn’t have scaled this easily without Google Cloud Platform. To learn more, check out our <a href="https://cloud.google.com/files/Streak.pdf">case study</a> and our post on the <a href="http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/10/streak-brings-crm-to-inbox-with-google.html" target="_blank">App Engine blog</a> for a detailed technical explaination.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Aleem Mawani, co-founder of Streak</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editors note:</b> Today’s guest blogger is Aleem Mawani, co-founder of <a href="http://www.streak.com/">Streak</a>, a startup alum of <a href="http://ycombinator.com/">Y Combinator</a>, a Silicon Valley incubator. Streak is a CRM tool built into Gmail. Aleem shares why Streak chose Google Cloud Platform to run their business.</i><br /><br />Everyone relies on email to get work done – yet most people use separate applications from their email to help them with various business processes. Streak fixes this problem by letting you do sales, hiring, fundraising, bug tracking, product development, deal flow, project management and almost any other business process right inside Gmail. We decided to build Streak on <a href="http://cloud.google.com/">Google Cloud Platform</a> to operate at scale, to understand our users and improve the application over time, and to rapidly grow our business. <br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-kramU27E_Uc/UHRS-JY6ILI/AAAAAAAAAsw/nF-KREAn7S0/s1600/screen.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-kramU27E_Uc/UHRS-JY6ILI/AAAAAAAAAsw/nF-KREAn7S0/s400/screen.png" width="500"></a></div><br /></div><br />We chose to build Streak with <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/index">Google App Engine</a> for many reasons: it can handle tons of load; it requires no maintenance; and it guarantees 99.95% uptime. Streak’s user base grew 30% week over week for 4 consecutive months after launch. Being able to handle the load and data requirements at our scale would have required us to hire a full team of backend engineers just to keep the application running. Instead, the Streak backend on App Engine is built and maintained by a single engineer. <br /><br />All of our data is stored in the <a href="https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/">App Engine Datastore</a>, but we also mirror our data using <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage">Google Cloud Storage</a>. As a result, Cloud Storage is a conduit to route this data to other Google cloud services, such as BigQuery and the <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/more-products">Prediction API</a>. <br /><br />Last, we use <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/big-query">Google BigQuery</a> to better understand our users. It allows us to analyze large amounts of data from our usage logs and query it to answer complex questions such as: <br /><br />How much does the average request cost broken down by type? How many users are running an old version of Streak? Are there currently any abnormal error rates in our application? On average, if a user is working in a 3 person team, how many deals do they have assigned to them? <br /><br />We bundle the insights gained from BigQuery and use it to power our dashboards with key business metrics.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-5w18VEZCInY/UHRUaNhqrNI/AAAAAAAAAs4/NLO6MqEaJ9M/s1600/map+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="318" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-5w18VEZCInY/UHRUaNhqrNI/AAAAAAAAAs4/NLO6MqEaJ9M/s400/map+(1).jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.011406981851905584" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of many Streak dashboards powered by BigQuery showing current usage statistics</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br />When we first launched our business, we had gigabytes worth of data. Now, we anticipate growing to terabytes of data in just a few months. We couldn’t have scaled this easily without Google Cloud Platform. To learn more, check out our <a href="https://cloud.google.com/files/Streak.pdf">case study</a> and our post on the <a href="http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/10/streak-brings-crm-to-inbox-with-google.html" target="_blank">App Engine blog</a> for a detailed technical explaination.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/streak-powers-their-business-on-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Streak powers their business on Google Cloud Platform&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/streak-powers-their-business-on-google.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/streak-powers-their-business-on-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/streak-powers-their-business-on-google.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/streak-powers-their-business-on-google.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/streak-powers-their-business-on-google.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20platform' rel='tag'> cloud platform </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20services' rel='tag'> cloud services </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20App%20Engine' rel='tag'> Google App Engine </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/guest%20post' rel='tag'> guest post </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2263167266837410191' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/09/perry-ellis-international-brings-their.html' itemprop='url' title='Perry Ellis International brings their global team together with Google Apps'> Perry Ellis International brings their global team together with Google Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, September 20, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Ronen Lapidot, Senior Vice President of Information Technology, Perry Ellis International</span><br><br><i><b>Editors note:</b> Today’s guest blogger is Ronen Lapidot, Senior Vice President of Information Technology at Perry Ellis International, a designer, distributor and licensor of apparel and accessories for men and women. Perry Ellis International joins other retail organizations in going Google. <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/campaign/retail/index.html#utm_campaign=BTS&utm_source=en-entblog-na-us-PerryEllis_92012&utm_medium=entblog&carousel=Spyder">See what they have to say</a>.</i><br><br>Far from a typical fashion house, our apparel spans a variety of categories including men’s and women’s clothing, accessories, children’s apparel, even evening gowns for the red carpet. In total, we manage a portfolio of some of the best known brands in fashion, including Perry Ellis®, Original Penguin®, Jantzen®, Laundry by Shelli Segal®, Nike® Swim, Callaway® and more. With 2,600 associates spanning across 65 store locations and 30 offices worldwide, we rely on technology to stay connected. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-DwBb08TQQdY/UFtzGpw6nPI/AAAAAAAAAmo/HNbwBDid278/s1600/Perry%2BEllis%2BFinal%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="255" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-DwBb08TQQdY/UFtzGpw6nPI/AAAAAAAAAmo/HNbwBDid278/s400/Perry%2BEllis%2BFinal%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br>The increasingly fast-paced global economy of the past several years has made it even more important to be able to work together efficiently, act quickly and share information across the company to help us all understand the state of the business and act as one global team. We were using a popular, premise based email solution, but with so many offices around the world, we knew the only way to keep our brand fresh and our business agile was to move to the cloud. <br><br>With the help of <a href="http://www.cloudsherpas.com/">Cloud Sherpas</a>, we moved the entire company to Google Apps. Now our global teams are able to connect through Gmail’s video chat feature to meet “face to face” about upcoming projects, designs and merchandise. With so many offices in different time zones, it’s great to be able to give our associates the option to work where they’re comfortable, even if it’s just going home to have dinner with their families before a jumping on a video chat with colleagues in China or Indonesia. This has been especially helpful for offices with eight or ten hour time differences between them and has made us feel more like one cohesive team instead of siloed offices. <br><br>Being able to work together easily across offices not only brings the team closer together, it also saves significant time and costs. We recently opened two international offices in Indonesia and Bangladesh. Usually I travel to each location for weeks at a time to interview and hire employees and oversee the regional office openings. With Google Apps, we were able to interview job candidates via video chat and work with regional managers on important policies and resources that needed to be in place for these new offices and associates. I was elated to discover that what normally takes significant travel time and costs could be done right from my desk. I sat there amazed as I watched documents fill in with information from my colleagues across the world. I think that’s when I realized we were all going to be able to do things very differently, now that we were in the cloud. </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Ronen Lapidot, Senior Vice President of Information Technology, Perry Ellis International</span><br><br><i><b>Editors note:</b> Today’s guest blogger is Ronen Lapidot, Senior Vice President of Information Technology at Perry Ellis International, a designer, distributor and licensor of apparel and accessories for men and women. Perry Ellis International joins other retail organizations in going Google. <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/campaign/retail/index.html#utm_campaign=BTS&utm_source=en-entblog-na-us-PerryEllis_92012&utm_medium=entblog&carousel=Spyder">See what they have to say</a>.</i><br><br>Far from a typical fashion house, our apparel spans a variety of categories including men’s and women’s clothing, accessories, children’s apparel, even evening gowns for the red carpet. In total, we manage a portfolio of some of the best known brands in fashion, including Perry Ellis®, Original Penguin®, Jantzen®, Laundry by Shelli Segal®, Nike® Swim, Callaway® and more. With 2,600 associates spanning across 65 store locations and 30 offices worldwide, we rely on technology to stay connected. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-DwBb08TQQdY/UFtzGpw6nPI/AAAAAAAAAmo/HNbwBDid278/s1600/Perry%2BEllis%2BFinal%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="255" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-DwBb08TQQdY/UFtzGpw6nPI/AAAAAAAAAmo/HNbwBDid278/s400/Perry%2BEllis%2BFinal%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br>The increasingly fast-paced global economy of the past several years has made it even more important to be able to work together efficiently, act quickly and share information across the company to help us all understand the state of the business and act as one global team. We were using a popular, premise based email solution, but with so many offices around the world, we knew the only way to keep our brand fresh and our business agile was to move to the cloud. <br><br>With the help of <a href="http://www.cloudsherpas.com/">Cloud Sherpas</a>, we moved the entire company to Google Apps. Now our global teams are able to connect through Gmail’s video chat feature to meet “face to face” about upcoming projects, designs and merchandise. With so many offices in different time zones, it’s great to be able to give our associates the option to work where they’re comfortable, even if it’s just going home to have dinner with their families before a jumping on a video chat with colleagues in China or Indonesia. This has been especially helpful for offices with eight or ten hour time differences between them and has made us feel more like one cohesive team instead of siloed offices. <br><br>Being able to work together easily across offices not only brings the team closer together, it also saves significant time and costs. We recently opened two international offices in Indonesia and Bangladesh. Usually I travel to each location for weeks at a time to interview and hire employees and oversee the regional office openings. With Google Apps, we were able to interview job candidates via video chat and work with regional managers on important policies and resources that needed to be in place for these new offices and associates. I was elated to discover that what normally takes significant travel time and costs could be done right from my desk. I sat there amazed as I watched documents fill in with information from my colleagues across the world. I think that’s when I realized we were all going to be able to do things very differently, now that we were in the cloud. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/09/perry-ellis-international-brings-their.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Perry Ellis International brings their global team together with Google Apps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/09/perry-ellis-international-brings-their.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/09/perry-ellis-international-brings-their.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/09/perry-ellis-international-brings-their.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/09/perry-ellis-international-brings-their.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/09/perry-ellis-international-brings-their.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/gonegoogle' rel='tag'> gonegoogle </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/success%20story' rel='tag'> success story </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1877621188699687843' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/neural-network-for-breast-cancer-data.html' itemprop='url' title='Neural Network for Breast Cancer Data Built on Google App Engine'> Neural Network for Breast Cancer Data Built on Google App Engine </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, August 7, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author" style="font-weight: normal; ">Posted by Brittany Wenger, Winner of Google Science Fair 2012</span><br /><br /><i style="font-weight: normal; ">(Cross-posted from <a href="http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/08/neural-network-for-breast-cancer-data.html">Google App Engine Blog</a>)</i><br /><br /><i style="font-weight: normal; "><b>Editors note:</b> Today’s guest blog post comes from 17-year-old Brittany Wenger, the winner of this year’s <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/events/sciencefair/index.html">Google Science Fair</a>. Brittany built an application on Google App Engine called the Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer. This artificial neural network can detect complex patterns in data, learning how to classify malignant or cancerous cells it hasn’t seen before. <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/events/sciencefair/projects/gsf83.html">Learn more about her project</a>. </i><br /><br /><img height="131" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/sYFBBiw6XB2uEkQBTLCDqQvfi1vzId7q-EFvGIkeEqgaq-c7Q7HEaT5tdUIM8rU7l5-a9E_8gZzqDhnFEu7xV8MnXAeez41Ckq9DN0wO_S8nEY0rqek" width="200" /><img height="131" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/OpQSE0LmsWmYTahY3XAwb0RTPUluMhwT_FEbKhF7OU27iVxHk6on9VTruCW2loeks6HICe3Chjg4zXZxp9ko0rQhC3X_QeThTZFyaQc87RTZaGzoc7Y" width="200" /><br /><br />When a patient has a palpable breast lump, the first step a doctor takes is to determine whether the mass is malignant or benign. One relatively simple diagnostic procedure is a form of biopsy called fine needle aspiration (FNA). Though these tests are less invasive than others, they are historically less accurate as well. My goal was to create a tool for doctors to use when interpreting test results from these procedures.<br /><br />For this project, I decided to create a neural network built on Google App Engine, using <a href="http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Breast+Cancer+Wisconsin+(Original)">data</a> published to the <a href="http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/index.html">Machine Learning Repository</a> by the University of Wisconsin. A neural network attempts to replicate the brain as a form of artificial intelligence through networks of computers and can be used to detect extremely complex patterns. It learns from its mistakes, so it can classify a case it hasn’t seen before as malignant or cancerous based on specific criteria like clump thickness or bland chromatin. Because the diagnostic power of the network improves the more data it has, building on App Engine is a way to ensure the app can continue to scale easily, no matter how much information goes into the system. <br /> <br />I got started integrating my neural network application code, written in Java, with App Engine in a few hours using the <a href="https://developers.google.com/appengine/downloads">SDK’s Greeting Service</a> sample code as a starting point. The application has two main parts, a training module, that implements the neural network itself and runs the training process over the input data stored in static files, and a web interface that takes input data and returns the network’s analysis.<br /><br />Google App Engine provides the scalable infrastructure I need to collect information from every hospital in the world and run when there are many concurrent requests, as usage of my application increases. Because my network is built as a cloud service, not only is my app working on the web, but mobile tablets, smartphones, old PC systems, or new technologies can also easily access the service from any hospital with an internet connection. <br /><br />The neural network I developed is 99.11% sensitive to malignancy when using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-validation_(statistics)#Leave-one-out_cross-validation">leave-one-out testing</a> with original data. Thus far, I have run 7.6 million trials. Moving forward my goal is to make the application accessible to the global medical community so more data can be deposited and used to improve the diagnostic power of the network. </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author" style="font-weight: normal; ">Posted by Brittany Wenger, Winner of Google Science Fair 2012</span><br /><br /><i style="font-weight: normal; ">(Cross-posted from <a href="http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/08/neural-network-for-breast-cancer-data.html">Google App Engine Blog</a>)</i><br /><br /><i style="font-weight: normal; "><b>Editors note:</b> Today’s guest blog post comes from 17-year-old Brittany Wenger, the winner of this year’s <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/events/sciencefair/index.html">Google Science Fair</a>. Brittany built an application on Google App Engine called the Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer. This artificial neural network can detect complex patterns in data, learning how to classify malignant or cancerous cells it hasn’t seen before. <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/events/sciencefair/projects/gsf83.html">Learn more about her project</a>. </i><br /><br /><img height="131" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/sYFBBiw6XB2uEkQBTLCDqQvfi1vzId7q-EFvGIkeEqgaq-c7Q7HEaT5tdUIM8rU7l5-a9E_8gZzqDhnFEu7xV8MnXAeez41Ckq9DN0wO_S8nEY0rqek" width="200" /><img height="131" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/OpQSE0LmsWmYTahY3XAwb0RTPUluMhwT_FEbKhF7OU27iVxHk6on9VTruCW2loeks6HICe3Chjg4zXZxp9ko0rQhC3X_QeThTZFyaQc87RTZaGzoc7Y" width="200" /><br /><br />When a patient has a palpable breast lump, the first step a doctor takes is to determine whether the mass is malignant or benign. One relatively simple diagnostic procedure is a form of biopsy called fine needle aspiration (FNA). Though these tests are less invasive than others, they are historically less accurate as well. My goal was to create a tool for doctors to use when interpreting test results from these procedures.<br /><br />For this project, I decided to create a neural network built on Google App Engine, using <a href="http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Breast+Cancer+Wisconsin+(Original)">data</a> published to the <a href="http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/index.html">Machine Learning Repository</a> by the University of Wisconsin. A neural network attempts to replicate the brain as a form of artificial intelligence through networks of computers and can be used to detect extremely complex patterns. It learns from its mistakes, so it can classify a case it hasn’t seen before as malignant or cancerous based on specific criteria like clump thickness or bland chromatin. Because the diagnostic power of the network improves the more data it has, building on App Engine is a way to ensure the app can continue to scale easily, no matter how much information goes into the system. <br /> <br />I got started integrating my neural network application code, written in Java, with App Engine in a few hours using the <a href="https://developers.google.com/appengine/downloads">SDK’s Greeting Service</a> sample code as a starting point. The application has two main parts, a training module, that implements the neural network itself and runs the training process over the input data stored in static files, and a web interface that takes input data and returns the network’s analysis.<br /><br />Google App Engine provides the scalable infrastructure I need to collect information from every hospital in the world and run when there are many concurrent requests, as usage of my application increases. Because my network is built as a cloud service, not only is my app working on the web, but mobile tablets, smartphones, old PC systems, or new technologies can also easily access the service from any hospital with an internet connection. <br /><br />The neural network I developed is 99.11% sensitive to malignancy when using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-validation_(statistics)#Leave-one-out_cross-validation">leave-one-out testing</a> with original data. Thus far, I have run 7.6 million trials. Moving forward my goal is to make the application accessible to the global medical community so more data can be deposited and used to improve the diagnostic power of the network. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/neural-network-for-breast-cancer-data.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Neural Network for Breast Cancer Data Built on Google App Engine&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/neural-network-for-breast-cancer-data.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/neural-network-for-breast-cancer-data.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/neural-network-for-breast-cancer-data.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/neural-network-for-breast-cancer-data.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/neural-network-for-breast-cancer-data.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20platform' rel='tag'> cloud platform </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20App%20Engine' rel='tag'> Google App Engine </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2738583661867622495' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/a-financial-perspective-on-moving-to.html' itemprop='url' title='A financial perspective on moving to the cloud'> A financial perspective on moving to the cloud </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, August 6, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Alandha Scott, Google Apps Team</span> <br><br><i><b>Editors note:</b> Chief Financial Officers are key decision-makers in any organization’s move to the cloud. For a financial perspective on cloud computing such as Google Apps for Business, visit our <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/campaign/cfo/">United States</a> and <a href="http://www.fiveinthecloud.com">Europe</a> websites or <a href="http://lp.google-mkto.com/CFOCloudComputingResearch.html">download the research reports</a>.</i><br><br>We often hear from CIOs and IT leaders about the benefits they've seen since moving their organizations to the cloud. The role of the CFO in this decision is sometimes overlooked, but it's an important one. <br><br>We wanted to learn more about what CFOs consider to be the benefits of moving to the cloud, as well as their concerns. We <a href="http://lp.google-mkto.com/CFOCloudComputingResearch.html">recently surveyed</a> over 800 CFOs in the United States and Europe, and we learned that almost 81% of our U.S. respondents say that they think completely implementing cloud technology would improve employee productivity, and 71% say it would reduce the time required to bring new products and services to market. In fact, in Europe 67% have adopted or are making plans to adopt cloud computing and 52% of American CFOs surveyed say their companies always include cloud-based systems in their IT decision-making processes. <br><br>Some of the benefits CFOs highlight include significant capital and operational savings, better security, and productivity gains that come from the ability to work from any device or together with others using tools like Google Docs. In our <a href="http://lp.google-mkto.com/CFO_Webcast.html">webcast</a>, even self-described "archetypal CFOs" highlighted their hopes for improved productivity when employees can work from home or elsewhere, as well as reduced costs when moving to a service model. Furthermore, 69% of surveyed CFOs in Europe believe that cloud computing increases the IT department’s ability to innovate. <br><br>But it’s not just this research that shows how CFOs can benefit from adopting cloud technology. Since adopting Google Apps for Business, Milwaukee-based Journal Communications' VP of Finance has used Google spreadsheets to do his company’s acquisition models and financial reporting, saving time and ensuring that decisions are made with team input and the most up-to-date information. <br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/DnyrmokIAUg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Alandha Scott, Google Apps Team</span> <br><br><i><b>Editors note:</b> Chief Financial Officers are key decision-makers in any organization’s move to the cloud. For a financial perspective on cloud computing such as Google Apps for Business, visit our <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/campaign/cfo/">United States</a> and <a href="http://www.fiveinthecloud.com">Europe</a> websites or <a href="http://lp.google-mkto.com/CFOCloudComputingResearch.html">download the research reports</a>.</i><br><br>We often hear from CIOs and IT leaders about the benefits they've seen since moving their organizations to the cloud. The role of the CFO in this decision is sometimes overlooked, but it's an important one. <br><br>We wanted to learn more about what CFOs consider to be the benefits of moving to the cloud, as well as their concerns. We <a href="http://lp.google-mkto.com/CFOCloudComputingResearch.html">recently surveyed</a> over 800 CFOs in the United States and Europe, and we learned that almost 81% of our U.S. respondents say that they think completely implementing cloud technology would improve employee productivity, and 71% say it would reduce the time required to bring new products and services to market. In fact, in Europe 67% have adopted or are making plans to adopt cloud computing and 52% of American CFOs surveyed say their companies always include cloud-based systems in their IT decision-making processes. <br><br>Some of the benefits CFOs highlight include significant capital and operational savings, better security, and productivity gains that come from the ability to work from any device or together with others using tools like Google Docs. In our <a href="http://lp.google-mkto.com/CFO_Webcast.html">webcast</a>, even self-described "archetypal CFOs" highlighted their hopes for improved productivity when employees can work from home or elsewhere, as well as reduced costs when moving to a service model. Furthermore, 69% of surveyed CFOs in Europe believe that cloud computing increases the IT department’s ability to innovate. <br><br>But it’s not just this research that shows how CFOs can benefit from adopting cloud technology. Since adopting Google Apps for Business, Milwaukee-based Journal Communications' VP of Finance has used Google spreadsheets to do his company’s acquisition models and financial reporting, saving time and ensuring that decisions are made with team input and the most up-to-date information. <br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/DnyrmokIAUg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/a-financial-perspective-on-moving-to.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:A financial perspective on moving to the cloud&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/a-financial-perspective-on-moving-to.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/a-financial-perspective-on-moving-to.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/a-financial-perspective-on-moving-to.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/a-financial-perspective-on-moving-to.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/a-financial-perspective-on-moving-to.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20spreadsheets' rel='tag'> Google spreadsheets </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='8301129518485333951' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/07/a-new-future-hitting-refresh-on.html' itemprop='url' title='A new future: hitting “Refresh” on business technology'> A new future: hitting “Refresh” on business technology </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, July 3, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Amit Singh, Vice President, Google Enterprise</span><br><br>Over the last two months I had the opportunity to spend time with hundreds of CIOs as we took <a href="http://www.atmosphereontour.com ">Atmosphere</a> – our annual cloud event – to 20 cities globally. What I heard from them boiled down to one simple idea: they’re looking for <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcOUWjkGBUY&feature=relmfu">a better way to do things</a>. Their employees want to work in collaborative environments without being tethered to their desks, and their IT departments are eager to shift resources from maintaining old technology to developing new ones. <br><br>These business leaders have experienced the power of living in the cloud and they want to bring that experience to the workplace. The cloud has certainly transformed my life by allowing my family to stay connected from all around the world. For example, at the São Paolo Atmosphere event, I joined a <a href="//www.google.com/+">Google+ Hangout</a> from my Android phone to wish my dad a happy birthday. This magic doesn’t need to be constrained to our personal lives. After all, we’re the same person at home and at work, and we like having access to the same devices and tools regardless. <br><br><b>A fundamental shift...</b><br>There was a time when business technology was at the forefront of innovation and productivity. Industries began to standardize around certain platforms that automated an individual’s work. But with complicated enterprise agreements, customer lock-in and limited competition, business technology lost its edge. IT professionals stopped innovating and relied on a handful of vendors who designed bloated software that was released every few <i>years</i>. At the same time, consumer technology took off. With the power of massive data centers, modern browsers and smart mobile devices at their fingertips, people found it easier than ever to communicate, create, and collaborate. Many people have fallen in love with the simplicity and freedom of these services, and they want to use them everywhere. <br><br><b>…to working in the future</b><br>This is where Google comes in. To provide a seamless transition from home to work (and back to home), we extended our popular consumer products–like Gmail and <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/04/introducing-google-drive-newest-member.html">Google Drive</a>–to meet the needs of businesses. For instance, <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/">Google Apps for Business</a> provides an additional layer of enterprise features like delegated mailboxes, granular administrative controls, a 99.9% SLA, 24x7 support, migration tools, and an ecosystem of certified resellers. <br><br>We’ve also applied the same formula to other products that were born in the cloud: <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/06/introducing-google-maps-coordinate.html">Google Maps Coordinate</a> helps companies easily manage mobile workers; <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/">Chrome for Business</a> gives you a consistent, personalized web experience on any device; <a href="http://cloud.google.com/products/">Google App Engine</a> lets you to build and host your own applications in the cloud; and <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/06/google-compute-engine-computing-without.html">Google Compute Engine</a> allows you to rent Google’s infrastructure to operate at scale. With each of these offerings, you can access the latest innovation by clicking “refresh” in your browser. <br><br>We’re humbled that 5 million businesses (including <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/01/bbva-banks-on-google-apps.html ">BBVA</a> and <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/02/roche-group-goes-google.html">Roche</a>), 66 of the top 100 U.S. universities, and government institutions in 45 of the 50 U.S. states have <a href="//www.google.com/campaigns/gonegoogle/index.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=ogb&utm_campaign=gg">gone Google</a> by choosing Google Apps to live and work in the cloud. We hear from these customers that alongside improving IT administration and individual productivity, Google Apps also helps teams of employees work better <i>together</i>. For example, Google documents let users collaborate in real-time and see each other’s edits as they happen. And now, with <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/06/get-things-done-anytime-anywhere.html">offline editing</a>, users can continue working even without an internet connection. <br><br>As people have begun to embrace the cloud, some legacy enterprise vendors have started to offer their own cloud-labeled offerings. They claim to offer a bridge between legacy solutions and the cloud. But these offerings still rely on desktop products and on-premise servers, require heavy IT investment, have limited support for mobile devices, come with complicated pricing and licences–and ultimately they’re still focused on individual productivity. If anything, they offer a bridge to the past. <br><br>With the explosion of computing devices, ubiquitous high-speed internet, and mobile workforces, there’s a fundamental shift happening in business. The question is: do you want to cross a bridge to continue working in the past...or move to the cloud so you can live and work seamlessly in the future? <br><br><i><a href="//www.google.com/a">Get started</a> with Google Apps or <a href="//google.com/gonegoogle/masters">collaborate in real-time today</a> with literary masters: Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Poe and more.</i> </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Amit Singh, Vice President, Google Enterprise</span><br><br>Over the last two months I had the opportunity to spend time with hundreds of CIOs as we took <a href="http://www.atmosphereontour.com ">Atmosphere</a> – our annual cloud event – to 20 cities globally. What I heard from them boiled down to one simple idea: they’re looking for <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcOUWjkGBUY&feature=relmfu">a better way to do things</a>. Their employees want to work in collaborative environments without being tethered to their desks, and their IT departments are eager to shift resources from maintaining old technology to developing new ones. <br><br>These business leaders have experienced the power of living in the cloud and they want to bring that experience to the workplace. The cloud has certainly transformed my life by allowing my family to stay connected from all around the world. For example, at the São Paolo Atmosphere event, I joined a <a href="//www.google.com/+">Google+ Hangout</a> from my Android phone to wish my dad a happy birthday. This magic doesn’t need to be constrained to our personal lives. After all, we’re the same person at home and at work, and we like having access to the same devices and tools regardless. <br><br><b>A fundamental shift...</b><br>There was a time when business technology was at the forefront of innovation and productivity. Industries began to standardize around certain platforms that automated an individual’s work. But with complicated enterprise agreements, customer lock-in and limited competition, business technology lost its edge. IT professionals stopped innovating and relied on a handful of vendors who designed bloated software that was released every few <i>years</i>. At the same time, consumer technology took off. With the power of massive data centers, modern browsers and smart mobile devices at their fingertips, people found it easier than ever to communicate, create, and collaborate. Many people have fallen in love with the simplicity and freedom of these services, and they want to use them everywhere. <br><br><b>…to working in the future</b><br>This is where Google comes in. To provide a seamless transition from home to work (and back to home), we extended our popular consumer products–like Gmail and <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/04/introducing-google-drive-newest-member.html">Google Drive</a>–to meet the needs of businesses. For instance, <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/">Google Apps for Business</a> provides an additional layer of enterprise features like delegated mailboxes, granular administrative controls, a 99.9% SLA, 24x7 support, migration tools, and an ecosystem of certified resellers. <br><br>We’ve also applied the same formula to other products that were born in the cloud: <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/06/introducing-google-maps-coordinate.html">Google Maps Coordinate</a> helps companies easily manage mobile workers; <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/">Chrome for Business</a> gives you a consistent, personalized web experience on any device; <a href="http://cloud.google.com/products/">Google App Engine</a> lets you to build and host your own applications in the cloud; and <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/06/google-compute-engine-computing-without.html">Google Compute Engine</a> allows you to rent Google’s infrastructure to operate at scale. With each of these offerings, you can access the latest innovation by clicking “refresh” in your browser. <br><br>We’re humbled that 5 million businesses (including <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/01/bbva-banks-on-google-apps.html ">BBVA</a> and <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/02/roche-group-goes-google.html">Roche</a>), 66 of the top 100 U.S. universities, and government institutions in 45 of the 50 U.S. states have <a href="//www.google.com/campaigns/gonegoogle/index.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=ogb&utm_campaign=gg">gone Google</a> by choosing Google Apps to live and work in the cloud. We hear from these customers that alongside improving IT administration and individual productivity, Google Apps also helps teams of employees work better <i>together</i>. For example, Google documents let users collaborate in real-time and see each other’s edits as they happen. And now, with <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/06/get-things-done-anytime-anywhere.html">offline editing</a>, users can continue working even without an internet connection. <br><br>As people have begun to embrace the cloud, some legacy enterprise vendors have started to offer their own cloud-labeled offerings. They claim to offer a bridge between legacy solutions and the cloud. But these offerings still rely on desktop products and on-premise servers, require heavy IT investment, have limited support for mobile devices, come with complicated pricing and licences–and ultimately they’re still focused on individual productivity. If anything, they offer a bridge to the past. <br><br>With the explosion of computing devices, ubiquitous high-speed internet, and mobile workforces, there’s a fundamental shift happening in business. The question is: do you want to cross a bridge to continue working in the past...or move to the cloud so you can live and work seamlessly in the future? <br><br><i><a href="//www.google.com/a">Get started</a> with Google Apps or <a href="//google.com/gonegoogle/masters">collaborate in real-time today</a> with literary masters: Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Poe and more.</i> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/07/a-new-future-hitting-refresh-on.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:A new future: hitting “Refresh” on business technology&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/07/a-new-future-hitting-refresh-on.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/07/a-new-future-hitting-refresh-on.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/07/a-new-future-hitting-refresh-on.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/07/a-new-future-hitting-refresh-on.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/07/a-new-future-hitting-refresh-on.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chrome' rel='tag'> Chrome </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20App%20Engine' rel='tag'> Google App Engine </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Compute%20Engine' rel='tag'> Google Compute Engine </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Enterprise' rel='tag'> Google Enterprise </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Maps%20Coordinate' rel='tag'> Google Maps Coordinate </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2596980968258965743' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/google-compute-engine-computing-without.html' itemprop='url' title='Google Compute Engine: Computing without limits'> Google Compute Engine: Computing without limits </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, June 28, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Craig McLuckie, Product Manager, Google Compute Engine</span><br><br><i>(Cross-posted from the <a href="http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/06/google-compute-engine-computing-without.html">Google Developers Blog</a>.)</i> <br><br>Over the years, Google has built some of the most high performing, scalable and efficient data centers in the world by constantly refining our hardware and software. Since 2008, we've been working to open up our infrastructure to outside developers and businesses so they can take advantage of our cloud as they build applications and websites and store and analyze data. So far this includes products like Google App Engine, Google Cloud Storage, and Google BigQuery. <br><br>Today, in response to many requests from developers and businesses, we're going a step further. We're introducing <a href="http://cloud.google.com/compute">Google Compute Engine</a>, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service product that lets you run Linux Virtual Machines (VMs) on the same infrastructure that powers Google. This goes beyond just giving you greater flexibility and control; access to computing resources at this scale can fundamentally change the way you think about tackling a problem. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-r2SnuosWi1I/T-yLhsy3pnI/AAAAAAAAAVk/tZuixu_Qt7c/s1600/racks%2Bat%2Bnight%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="300" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-r2SnuosWi1I/T-yLhsy3pnI/AAAAAAAAAVk/tZuixu_Qt7c/s400/racks%2Bat%2Bnight%2B2.jpg" width="400"></a></div> <br>Google Compute Engine offers: <ul><li><b>Scale</b>. At Google we tackle huge computing tasks all the time, like indexing the web, or handling billions of search queries a day. Using Google's data centers, Google Compute Engine reduces the time to scale up for tasks that require large amounts of computing power. You can launch enormous compute clusters - tens of thousands of cores or more.</li><p><li><b>Performance</b>. Many of you have learned to live with erratic performance in the cloud. We have built our systems to offer strong and consistent performance even at massive scale. For example, we have sophisticated network connections that ensure consistency. Even in a shared cloud you don’t see interruptions; you can tune your app and rely on it not degrading.</li><p><li><b>Value</b>. Computing in the cloud is getting even more appealing from a cost perspective. The economy of scale and efficiency of our data centers allows Google Compute Engine to give you 50% more compute for your money than with other leading cloud providers. You can see pricing details <a href="http://cloud.google.com/pricing/compute-engine.html">here</a>.</li></ul><br>The capabilities of Google Compute Engine include: <ul><li><b>Compute</b>. Launch Linux VMs on-demand. 1, 2, 4 and 8 virtual core VMs are available with 3.75GB RAM per virtual core.</li><p><li><b>Storage</b>. Store data on local disk, on our new persistent block device, or on our Internet-scale object store, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage.html">Google Cloud Storage</a>.</li><p><li><b>Network</b>. Connect your VMs together using our high-performance network technology to form powerful compute clusters and manage connectivity to the Internet with configurable firewalls.</li><p><li><b>Tooling</b>. Configure and control your VMs via a scriptable command line tool or web UI. Or you can create your own dynamic management system using our API.</li></ul><br>At launch, we have worked with a number of partners - such as <a href="http://www.rightscale.com/">RightScale</a>, <a href="http://puppetlabs.com/">Puppet Labs</a>, <a href="http://www.opscode.com/">OpsCode</a>, <a href="http://www.numerate.com/">Numerate</a>, <a href="http://cliqrtech.com/">Cliqr</a> and <a href="http://mapr.com/">MapR</a> - to integrate their products with Google Compute Engine. These partners offer management services that make it easy for you to move your applications to the cloud and between different cloud environments. <br><br>You can learn more about Google Compute Engine <a href="http://cloud.google.com/">here</a>. We’re going to pace ourselves and start with Google Compute Engine in limited preview (<a href="https://gce-signup.appspot.com/">sign up here</a>), but our goal is to give you all the pieces you need to build anything you want in the cloud. Whether you need a platform like Google App Engine, or virtual machines like Google Compute Engine, these days, you define your limits. We’re just at the start of what the cloud can do. </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Craig McLuckie, Product Manager, Google Compute Engine</span><br><br><i>(Cross-posted from the <a href="http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/06/google-compute-engine-computing-without.html">Google Developers Blog</a>.)</i> <br><br>Over the years, Google has built some of the most high performing, scalable and efficient data centers in the world by constantly refining our hardware and software. Since 2008, we've been working to open up our infrastructure to outside developers and businesses so they can take advantage of our cloud as they build applications and websites and store and analyze data. So far this includes products like Google App Engine, Google Cloud Storage, and Google BigQuery. <br><br>Today, in response to many requests from developers and businesses, we're going a step further. We're introducing <a href="http://cloud.google.com/compute">Google Compute Engine</a>, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service product that lets you run Linux Virtual Machines (VMs) on the same infrastructure that powers Google. This goes beyond just giving you greater flexibility and control; access to computing resources at this scale can fundamentally change the way you think about tackling a problem. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-r2SnuosWi1I/T-yLhsy3pnI/AAAAAAAAAVk/tZuixu_Qt7c/s1600/racks%2Bat%2Bnight%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="300" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-r2SnuosWi1I/T-yLhsy3pnI/AAAAAAAAAVk/tZuixu_Qt7c/s400/racks%2Bat%2Bnight%2B2.jpg" width="400"></a></div> <br>Google Compute Engine offers: <ul><li><b>Scale</b>. At Google we tackle huge computing tasks all the time, like indexing the web, or handling billions of search queries a day. Using Google's data centers, Google Compute Engine reduces the time to scale up for tasks that require large amounts of computing power. You can launch enormous compute clusters - tens of thousands of cores or more.</li><p><li><b>Performance</b>. Many of you have learned to live with erratic performance in the cloud. We have built our systems to offer strong and consistent performance even at massive scale. For example, we have sophisticated network connections that ensure consistency. Even in a shared cloud you don’t see interruptions; you can tune your app and rely on it not degrading.</li><p><li><b>Value</b>. Computing in the cloud is getting even more appealing from a cost perspective. The economy of scale and efficiency of our data centers allows Google Compute Engine to give you 50% more compute for your money than with other leading cloud providers. You can see pricing details <a href="http://cloud.google.com/pricing/compute-engine.html">here</a>.</li></ul><br>The capabilities of Google Compute Engine include: <ul><li><b>Compute</b>. Launch Linux VMs on-demand. 1, 2, 4 and 8 virtual core VMs are available with 3.75GB RAM per virtual core.</li><p><li><b>Storage</b>. Store data on local disk, on our new persistent block device, or on our Internet-scale object store, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage.html">Google Cloud Storage</a>.</li><p><li><b>Network</b>. Connect your VMs together using our high-performance network technology to form powerful compute clusters and manage connectivity to the Internet with configurable firewalls.</li><p><li><b>Tooling</b>. Configure and control your VMs via a scriptable command line tool or web UI. Or you can create your own dynamic management system using our API.</li></ul><br>At launch, we have worked with a number of partners - such as <a href="http://www.rightscale.com/">RightScale</a>, <a href="http://puppetlabs.com/">Puppet Labs</a>, <a href="http://www.opscode.com/">OpsCode</a>, <a href="http://www.numerate.com/">Numerate</a>, <a href="http://cliqrtech.com/">Cliqr</a> and <a href="http://mapr.com/">MapR</a> - to integrate their products with Google Compute Engine. These partners offer management services that make it easy for you to move your applications to the cloud and between different cloud environments. <br><br>You can learn more about Google Compute Engine <a href="http://cloud.google.com/">here</a>. We’re going to pace ourselves and start with Google Compute Engine in limited preview (<a href="https://gce-signup.appspot.com/">sign up here</a>), but our goal is to give you all the pieces you need to build anything you want in the cloud. Whether you need a platform like Google App Engine, or virtual machines like Google Compute Engine, these days, you define your limits. We’re just at the start of what the cloud can do. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/google-compute-engine-computing-without.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Google Compute Engine: Computing without limits&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/google-compute-engine-computing-without.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/google-compute-engine-computing-without.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='33' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/google-compute-engine-computing-without.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/google-compute-engine-computing-without.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/google-compute-engine-computing-without.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20platform' rel='tag'> cloud platform </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Compute%20Engine' rel='tag'> Google Compute Engine </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='3887757788084697761' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/03/google-cloud-storage-brings-more.html' itemprop='url' title='Google Cloud Storage brings more storage solutions to the enterprise'> Google Cloud Storage brings more storage solutions to the enterprise </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, March 6, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Navneet Joneja, Product Manager for Google Cloud Storage</span><br /><br /><a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/storage/#utm_campaign=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-cloudservices_021312&utm_medium=blog">Google Cloud Storage</a> enables developers to store and access massive amounts of data on Google’s infrastructure with high reliability, availability and performance. Since Google Cloud Storage <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-app-engine-cloud-storage-and.html">graduated from preview</a> last year, many developers have tapped directly into Google’s storage capabilities.<br /><br />We are also seeing lots of technology providers integrating Google Cloud Storage directly into their offerings. For example, several providers of enterprise storage solutions have integrated with Google Cloud Storage to make their products and services even better.<br /><br />Here’s how a few of these companies are helping their customers build a bridge to the cloud with Google Cloud Storage:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.panzura.com/googlecloudstorage">Panzura</a> allows globally distributed enterprises to store, collaborate and backup files in the cloud using Panzura File System and Google Cloud Storage.</li><li><a href="http://www.storsimple.com/googlecloudstorage">StorSimple</a> offers a single integrated appliance for primary storage, data protection and disaster recovery. Now, you can connect your StorSimple appliances to the cloud with Google Cloud Storage.</li><li><a href="http://www.twinstrata.com/google">TwinStrata</a>’s storage gateway can now be used in conjunction with Google Cloud Storage for data storage, backup and disaster recovery in the cloud.</li><li><a href="http://www.zmanda.com/">Zmanda </a>provides backup and disaster recovery solutions for businesses. You can now use Zmanda’s software to <a href="http://www.zmanda.com/googlecloudstorage/">backup your on-premise data to Google Cloud Storage</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gladinet.com/google-cloud-storage-access-solutions.htm">Gladinet</a> makes it easy to upload a file from your desktop to Google Cloud Storage, share it with your team and manage access controls using a web-based interface.</li></ul>I'm thrilled to see other companies building innovative products using Google Cloud Storage. Today, we're also announcing <a href="https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/pricingandterms#utm_campaign=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-cloudservices_021312&utm_medium=blog">lower storage prices</a> to make it even more affordable to store your data in Google's cloud. The new pricing will be effective retroactively from March 1st, 2012.<br /><br />If you’re interested in learning how you can tap into Google’s cloud storage capabilities to serve your company’s storage needs, we’d love to <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/contact.html#utm_campaign=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-cloudservices_021312&utm_medium=blog">have a conversation</a> or you can <a href="https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/signup#utm_campaign=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-cloudservices_021312&utm_medium=blog">get started online</a>. </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Navneet Joneja, Product Manager for Google Cloud Storage</span><br /><br /><a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/storage/#utm_campaign=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-cloudservices_021312&utm_medium=blog">Google Cloud Storage</a> enables developers to store and access massive amounts of data on Google’s infrastructure with high reliability, availability and performance. Since Google Cloud Storage <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-app-engine-cloud-storage-and.html">graduated from preview</a> last year, many developers have tapped directly into Google’s storage capabilities.<br /><br />We are also seeing lots of technology providers integrating Google Cloud Storage directly into their offerings. For example, several providers of enterprise storage solutions have integrated with Google Cloud Storage to make their products and services even better.<br /><br />Here’s how a few of these companies are helping their customers build a bridge to the cloud with Google Cloud Storage:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.panzura.com/googlecloudstorage">Panzura</a> allows globally distributed enterprises to store, collaborate and backup files in the cloud using Panzura File System and Google Cloud Storage.</li><li><a href="http://www.storsimple.com/googlecloudstorage">StorSimple</a> offers a single integrated appliance for primary storage, data protection and disaster recovery. Now, you can connect your StorSimple appliances to the cloud with Google Cloud Storage.</li><li><a href="http://www.twinstrata.com/google">TwinStrata</a>’s storage gateway can now be used in conjunction with Google Cloud Storage for data storage, backup and disaster recovery in the cloud.</li><li><a href="http://www.zmanda.com/">Zmanda </a>provides backup and disaster recovery solutions for businesses. You can now use Zmanda’s software to <a href="http://www.zmanda.com/googlecloudstorage/">backup your on-premise data to Google Cloud Storage</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gladinet.com/google-cloud-storage-access-solutions.htm">Gladinet</a> makes it easy to upload a file from your desktop to Google Cloud Storage, share it with your team and manage access controls using a web-based interface.</li></ul>I'm thrilled to see other companies building innovative products using Google Cloud Storage. Today, we're also announcing <a href="https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/pricingandterms#utm_campaign=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-cloudservices_021312&utm_medium=blog">lower storage prices</a> to make it even more affordable to store your data in Google's cloud. The new pricing will be effective retroactively from March 1st, 2012.<br /><br />If you’re interested in learning how you can tap into Google’s cloud storage capabilities to serve your company’s storage needs, we’d love to <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/contact.html#utm_campaign=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-cloudservices_021312&utm_medium=blog">have a conversation</a> or you can <a href="https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/signup#utm_campaign=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-cloudservices_021312&utm_medium=blog">get started online</a>. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/03/google-cloud-storage-brings-more.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Google Cloud Storage brings more storage solutions to the enterprise&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/03/google-cloud-storage-brings-more.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/03/google-cloud-storage-brings-more.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='6' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/03/google-cloud-storage-brings-more.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/03/google-cloud-storage-brings-more.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/03/google-cloud-storage-brings-more.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20services' rel='tag'> cloud services </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/developers' rel='tag'> developers </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/enterprise' rel='tag'> enterprise </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5560843044412442148' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/01/google-supports-european-cloud.html' itemprop='url' title='Google Supports the European Cloud Partnership'> Google Supports the European Cloud Partnership </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Friday, January 27, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div>Posted by Patrick Ryan, Policy Counsel, Open Internet <p>Last year, we were excited about the effort initiated by the U.S. government to promote cloud adoption through the <a href="http://www.cio.gov/documents/federal-cloud-computing-strategy.pdf">Cloud First</a> initiative. Through this initiative, the federal government declared that taxpayers' money should be used in a more productive way, and having the government run its own data centers (more than 2,000 of them) didn't make sense. They’ve targeted the shutdown of more than 1,000 in what they call their “<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/08/year-change-federal-it">year of change in federal IT</a>,” saving more than $2 billion in taxpayer money. Through leading by example, the federal government went Google with several large agencies including the <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/01/noaa-moves-25000-to-google-apps.html">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</a> (NOAA) and the <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/07/gsa-has-gone-google.html">Government Services Agency</a> (GSA). They join other public entities like the states of <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/06/state-of-wyoming-may-be-first-state-to.html">Wyoming</a>, and <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/01/from-mountains-to-clouds-state-of-utah.html">Utah</a>, <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JZus5bvC3M">Washington DC</a>, and the cities of <a href="http://www.govtech.com/library/case-studies/Why-Switch-to-the-Cloud-Ask-Orlando.html">Orlando</a> and <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-year-new-start-for-city-of.html">Pittsburgh</a>. Also, quasi-public entities have embraced Google Apps, including more than <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/09/tradition-meets-technology-top.html">61 of the top 100</a> U.S. universities. <p>In 2012, we hope to see the same movement in Europe. On January 26th, the European Commission's Vice President Neelie Kroes <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/12/38&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en">announced</a> at the World Economic Forum in Davos the European Cloud Partnership, and they're backing it with an investment of 10 million EUR to create "a strong common basis for cloud procurement by public authorities." Commissioner Kroes also addressed many of the concerns about local clouds in a decisive way: <blockquote>“There is one thing that does not make sense and I want to be clear about it: The Cloud Partnership, and indeed our overall Cloud Computing strategy, is not about building a European super-cloud, neither outright nor by forcing the integration of existing public cloud infrastructures. Cloud business models, and the set-up of cloud suppliers' and publicly-run data centres, should be determined by efficiency considerations on the market.”</blockquote><p>We believe that the European Cloud Partnership will be a positive thing for public authorities, not just in Europe, but around the world. According to <a href="http://www.valueoftheweb.com/">recent studies</a>, the Internet already accounts on average for 3.4% of GDP in a group of 13 emerging and developed economies, helps to spur economic growth and initiatives like this will help to promote its positive economic impact further. </script> <noscript> <div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div>Posted by Patrick Ryan, Policy Counsel, Open Internet <p>Last year, we were excited about the effort initiated by the U.S. government to promote cloud adoption through the <a href="http://www.cio.gov/documents/federal-cloud-computing-strategy.pdf">Cloud First</a> initiative. Through this initiative, the federal government declared that taxpayers' money should be used in a more productive way, and having the government run its own data centers (more than 2,000 of them) didn't make sense. They’ve targeted the shutdown of more than 1,000 in what they call their “<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/08/year-change-federal-it">year of change in federal IT</a>,” saving more than $2 billion in taxpayer money. Through leading by example, the federal government went Google with several large agencies including the <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/01/noaa-moves-25000-to-google-apps.html">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</a> (NOAA) and the <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/07/gsa-has-gone-google.html">Government Services Agency</a> (GSA). They join other public entities like the states of <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/06/state-of-wyoming-may-be-first-state-to.html">Wyoming</a>, and <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/01/from-mountains-to-clouds-state-of-utah.html">Utah</a>, <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JZus5bvC3M">Washington DC</a>, and the cities of <a href="http://www.govtech.com/library/case-studies/Why-Switch-to-the-Cloud-Ask-Orlando.html">Orlando</a> and <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-year-new-start-for-city-of.html">Pittsburgh</a>. Also, quasi-public entities have embraced Google Apps, including more than <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/09/tradition-meets-technology-top.html">61 of the top 100</a> U.S. universities. <p>In 2012, we hope to see the same movement in Europe. On January 26th, the European Commission's Vice President Neelie Kroes <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/12/38&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en">announced</a> at the World Economic Forum in Davos the European Cloud Partnership, and they're backing it with an investment of 10 million EUR to create "a strong common basis for cloud procurement by public authorities." Commissioner Kroes also addressed many of the concerns about local clouds in a decisive way: <blockquote>“There is one thing that does not make sense and I want to be clear about it: The Cloud Partnership, and indeed our overall Cloud Computing strategy, is not about building a European super-cloud, neither outright nor by forcing the integration of existing public cloud infrastructures. Cloud business models, and the set-up of cloud suppliers' and publicly-run data centres, should be determined by efficiency considerations on the market.”</blockquote><p>We believe that the European Cloud Partnership will be a positive thing for public authorities, not just in Europe, but around the world. According to <a href="http://www.valueoftheweb.com/">recent studies</a>, the Internet already accounts on average for 3.4% of GDP in a group of 13 emerging and developed economies, helps to spur economic growth and initiatives like this will help to promote its positive economic impact further. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/01/google-supports-european-cloud.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Google Supports the European Cloud Partnership&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/01/google-supports-european-cloud.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/01/google-supports-european-cloud.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='14' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/01/google-supports-european-cloud.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/01/google-supports-european-cloud.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/01/google-supports-european-cloud.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/government' rel='tag'> government </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1427332325832536677' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2011/10/geoeye-using-google-earth-builder-for.html' itemprop='url' title='GeoEye Using Google Earth Builder for Commercial Distribution of their Data'> GeoEye Using Google Earth Builder for Commercial Distribution of their Data </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, October 18, 2011 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Dylan Lorimer, Google Earth and Maps for Business Product Manager</span><br /><br />Since 2008, Google has worked with <a href="http://www.geoeye.com/GeoEye101/GeoEye-Google/Default.aspx "> GeoEye</a> to publish millions of square kilometers of satellite imagery to Google Earth and Maps users. In addition to the imagery the company shares with Google, GeoEye also collects satellite imagery for licensing by numerous governments and business customers around the world. <br /><br /><a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/builder.html#utm_campaign=en&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=gebgeoeye1018">Google Earth Builder </a>is designed to make it easy for a geospatial data provider to securely publish its data to specific users or developers. For example, during a crisis response effort such as a forest fire, a government agency might need a particular group of employees to be able to access recent satellite images of the forest on their tablets or smartphones in real time. <br /><br />Today we’re delighted to announce that GeoEye is the first commercial satellite imagery provider to adopt the Google Earth Builder platform. By using Google Earth Builder, GeoEye will rely on Google's cloud infrastructure to process, host, and securely publish their satellite imagery and mapping layers. Doing so will make it easy for their customers to access GeoEye’s geospatial data from their computers, tablets and other internet-connected devices. <br /><br />This also means GeoEye will be able to create new business models around hosted, subscription access to their data, and will be able to provide Google Enterprise customers with the option to license additional imagery from GeoEye for use within Google Maps, Google Earth and APIs.<br /><br />We’re really excited to have GeoEye using Google Earth Builder and looking forward to them publishing a host of new subscription imagery layers to our Google Enterprise Maps and Earth customers. Learn more about GeoEye’s plans to create subscription imagery services with Google Earth Builder <a href="http://www.geoeye.com/GeoEye101/GeoEye-Google/Default.aspx">here</a>. </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Dylan Lorimer, Google Earth and Maps for Business Product Manager</span><br /><br />Since 2008, Google has worked with <a href="http://www.geoeye.com/GeoEye101/GeoEye-Google/Default.aspx "> GeoEye</a> to publish millions of square kilometers of satellite imagery to Google Earth and Maps users. In addition to the imagery the company shares with Google, GeoEye also collects satellite imagery for licensing by numerous governments and business customers around the world. <br /><br /><a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/builder.html#utm_campaign=en&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=gebgeoeye1018">Google Earth Builder </a>is designed to make it easy for a geospatial data provider to securely publish its data to specific users or developers. For example, during a crisis response effort such as a forest fire, a government agency might need a particular group of employees to be able to access recent satellite images of the forest on their tablets or smartphones in real time. <br /><br />Today we’re delighted to announce that GeoEye is the first commercial satellite imagery provider to adopt the Google Earth Builder platform. By using Google Earth Builder, GeoEye will rely on Google's cloud infrastructure to process, host, and securely publish their satellite imagery and mapping layers. Doing so will make it easy for their customers to access GeoEye’s geospatial data from their computers, tablets and other internet-connected devices. <br /><br />This also means GeoEye will be able to create new business models around hosted, subscription access to their data, and will be able to provide Google Enterprise customers with the option to license additional imagery from GeoEye for use within Google Maps, Google Earth and APIs.<br /><br />We’re really excited to have GeoEye using Google Earth Builder and looking forward to them publishing a host of new subscription imagery layers to our Google Enterprise Maps and Earth customers. Learn more about GeoEye’s plans to create subscription imagery services with Google Earth Builder <a href="http://www.geoeye.com/GeoEye101/GeoEye-Google/Default.aspx">here</a>. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2011/10/geoeye-using-google-earth-builder-for.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:GeoEye Using Google Earth Builder for Commercial Distribution of their Data&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2011/10/geoeye-using-google-earth-builder-for.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2011/10/geoeye-using-google-earth-builder-for.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='4' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2011/10/geoeye-using-google-earth-builder-for.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2011/10/geoeye-using-google-earth-builder-for.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2011/10/geoeye-using-google-earth-builder-for.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/earth%20and%20maps' rel='tag'> earth and maps </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2204088526517605181' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2011/09/helping-larger-businesses-make-most-of.html' itemprop='url' title='Helping larger businesses make the most of Google’s cloud services'> Helping larger businesses make the most of Google’s cloud services </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Friday, September 30, 2011 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Rahul Sood, Global Head of Enterprise Partnerships</span><br /><br />Today, we’re making it easier for larger businesses to use <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-entblog-na-us_CTP09262011&utm_medium=blog">Google’s cloud services</a> by announcing the Cloud Transformation Program.<br /><br />With the Cloud Transformation Program, we’ve identified select Google partners that can help you get the most out of Google’s cloud services, including <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/appengine/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-entblog-na-us_CTP09262011&utm_medium=blog">Google App Engine</a>, <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/storage/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-entblog-na-us_CTP09262011&utm_medium=blog">Google Storage for Developers</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-entblog-na-us_CTP09262011&utm_medium=blog">Google Apps Script</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/prediction/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-entblog-na-us_CTP09262011&utm_medium=blog">Google Prediction API</a>. Initially, Cloud Transformation Program partners will offer customized solutions in the following areas:<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cloud-based applications</span> such as websites, mobile apps, social media apps, business process apps and customer-facing web apps built using Google App Engine and Google Apps Script</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Predictive solutions</span> such as fraud detection, customer sentiment analysis, and customer churn prediction built using Google Prediction API</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enterprise storage solutions</span> such as storage for applications, data sharing and high-reliability backup built using Google Storage for Developers</li></ul>Over time, we expect that partners will expand their focus as we add new cloud services.<br /><br />We’re excited to have <a href="http://www.csc.com/">CSC</a>, <a href="http://www.cloudsherpas.com/">Cloud Sherpas</a>, <a href="http://www.cognizant.com/">Cognizant</a>, <a href="http://www.operasolutions.com/">Opera Solutions</a>, <a href="http://www.razorfish.com/">Razorfish</a>, <a href="http://www.sadasystems.com/">SADA Systems</a> and <a href="http://www.tempusnova.com/tncloud.nsf/Home?OpenForm">TempusNova</a> as our initial Cloud Transformation Program partners. These partners all have deep expertise and a proven track record of success helping businesses make the most of their IT investments, so we appreciate their support. To learn how you can use Google’s cloud services in your business, please contact one of our partners directly. </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Rahul Sood, Global Head of Enterprise Partnerships</span><br /><br />Today, we’re making it easier for larger businesses to use <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-entblog-na-us_CTP09262011&utm_medium=blog">Google’s cloud services</a> by announcing the Cloud Transformation Program.<br /><br />With the Cloud Transformation Program, we’ve identified select Google partners that can help you get the most out of Google’s cloud services, including <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/appengine/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-entblog-na-us_CTP09262011&utm_medium=blog">Google App Engine</a>, <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/storage/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-entblog-na-us_CTP09262011&utm_medium=blog">Google Storage for Developers</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-entblog-na-us_CTP09262011&utm_medium=blog">Google Apps Script</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/prediction/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-entblog-na-us_CTP09262011&utm_medium=blog">Google Prediction API</a>. Initially, Cloud Transformation Program partners will offer customized solutions in the following areas:<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cloud-based applications</span> such as websites, mobile apps, social media apps, business process apps and customer-facing web apps built using Google App Engine and Google Apps Script</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Predictive solutions</span> such as fraud detection, customer sentiment analysis, and customer churn prediction built using Google Prediction API</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enterprise storage solutions</span> such as storage for applications, data sharing and high-reliability backup built using Google Storage for Developers</li></ul>Over time, we expect that partners will expand their focus as we add new cloud services.<br /><br />We’re excited to have <a href="http://www.csc.com/">CSC</a>, <a href="http://www.cloudsherpas.com/">Cloud Sherpas</a>, <a href="http://www.cognizant.com/">Cognizant</a>, <a href="http://www.operasolutions.com/">Opera Solutions</a>, <a href="http://www.razorfish.com/">Razorfish</a>, <a href="http://www.sadasystems.com/">SADA Systems</a> and <a href="http://www.tempusnova.com/tncloud.nsf/Home?OpenForm">TempusNova</a> as our initial Cloud Transformation Program partners. These partners all have deep expertise and a proven track record of success helping businesses make the most of their IT investments, so we appreciate their support. 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Ms. Neelie Kroes, the Vice President of the European Commission and European Digital Agenda Commissioner, summarised Europe’s ambition quite well when she declared in a <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/11/50">recent speech</a>, that “the goal is to make Europe not just cloud-friendly but also cloud-active.”<br /><br />At Google, we fully support the European Commission’s efforts in this area. Cloud computing is gaining traction in Europe and elsewhere. The cloud saves users money and it creates jobs. According to a <a href="http://www.intertic.org/Policy%20Papers/JManEc.pdf">recent study</a> from Professor Federico Etro of the University of Venice, cloud computing in the EU will contribute 0.4% of GDP and create a million jobs by 2016. Similarly, in the United States Vivek Kundra, previously the Obama administration’s Chief Information Officer, recently pointed out in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/opinion/tight-budget-look-to-the-cloud.html?_r=1&src=tp">New York Times</a> that U.S. government agencies can gain significant economic benefits by moving their IT services to the cloud. And, as we said in July, the United States has <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/07/cloud-2-commission-releases-report-on.html">reached out to industry</a> for input. We’re thrilled that governments in Europe and the United States are so enthusiastic about cloud computing. <br /><br />For these reasons, Google has submitted its contribution to this important debate in Europe. In particular, we have provided our <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BxmmhvhSXSTlYjIxNDk2NjItZmEwNi00YjE2LWE5MmMtMDg1Zjc1MjE1YzM5&hl=en">point of view</a> on what we consider key issues, namely:<br /><ul><li>The legislative framework: We suggest proposals to facilitate cloud adoption and to remove the legislative and administrative barriers service providers are facing in Europe, and still preserve consumer values and data protection.</li><li>Embracing interoperability and data portability: Google has put a lot of effort into tools and solutions aimed at giving users <a href="https://www.google.com/dashboard/">control over their data</a> in the cloud and making <a href="//google.com/takeout">data genuinely portable</a>.</li><li>Public sector clouds: the public sector should lead by example in important fields like security and procurement, at the EU, national and local levels (similar to the “Cloud First” strategy in the United States).</li><li>Global solutions for global problems: one of the advantages of the cloud is scalability, which needs to be fostered by setting global standards, in particular in the areas of data protection and security.</li></ul>At the end of the day, the European Commission has a great opportunity to come up with a proposal that modernizes the EU legislative framework and especially the EU data protection regime. The cloud offers the possibility to truly leverage the digital single market to the benefit of all Europeans, both users and providers, and we at Google hope our proposals will help the Commission take the right steps going forward. </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Marco Pancini, Senior Policy Counsel, Europe</span><br /><br />In May, the European Commission launched a <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/575&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en">Public Consultation</a> on cloud computing to collect stakeholders’ input on opportunities and barriers to the adoption of cloud computing. Ms. Neelie Kroes, the Vice President of the European Commission and European Digital Agenda Commissioner, summarised Europe’s ambition quite well when she declared in a <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/11/50">recent speech</a>, that “the goal is to make Europe not just cloud-friendly but also cloud-active.”<br /><br />At Google, we fully support the European Commission’s efforts in this area. Cloud computing is gaining traction in Europe and elsewhere. The cloud saves users money and it creates jobs. According to a <a href="http://www.intertic.org/Policy%20Papers/JManEc.pdf">recent study</a> from Professor Federico Etro of the University of Venice, cloud computing in the EU will contribute 0.4% of GDP and create a million jobs by 2016. Similarly, in the United States Vivek Kundra, previously the Obama administration’s Chief Information Officer, recently pointed out in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/opinion/tight-budget-look-to-the-cloud.html?_r=1&src=tp">New York Times</a> that U.S. government agencies can gain significant economic benefits by moving their IT services to the cloud. And, as we said in July, the United States has <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/07/cloud-2-commission-releases-report-on.html">reached out to industry</a> for input. We’re thrilled that governments in Europe and the United States are so enthusiastic about cloud computing. <br /><br />For these reasons, Google has submitted its contribution to this important debate in Europe. In particular, we have provided our <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BxmmhvhSXSTlYjIxNDk2NjItZmEwNi00YjE2LWE5MmMtMDg1Zjc1MjE1YzM5&hl=en">point of view</a> on what we consider key issues, namely:<br /><ul><li>The legislative framework: We suggest proposals to facilitate cloud adoption and to remove the legislative and administrative barriers service providers are facing in Europe, and still preserve consumer values and data protection.</li><li>Embracing interoperability and data portability: Google has put a lot of effort into tools and solutions aimed at giving users <a href="https://www.google.com/dashboard/">control over their data</a> in the cloud and making <a href="//google.com/takeout">data genuinely portable</a>.</li><li>Public sector clouds: the public sector should lead by example in important fields like security and procurement, at the EU, national and local levels (similar to the “Cloud First” strategy in the United States).</li><li>Global solutions for global problems: one of the advantages of the cloud is scalability, which needs to be fostered by setting global standards, in particular in the areas of data protection and security.</li></ul>At the end of the day, the European Commission has a great opportunity to come up with a proposal that modernizes the EU legislative framework and especially the EU data protection regime. The cloud offers the possibility to truly leverage the digital single market to the benefit of all Europeans, both users and providers, and we at Google hope our proposals will help the Commission take the right steps going forward. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2011/09/supporting-europes-efforts-for-more.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Supporting Europe’s Efforts for More Cloud Adoption&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2011/09/supporting-europes-efforts-for-more.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> 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