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Day June 28, 2012

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Google Compute Engine: Amazon Web Services competitor

Jun 28, ’12 10:04 PM

Some smart pundits say that Google Compute Engine is somewhat lacking and is clearly no match to Amazon.

Google’s Compute Engine fits in the “Infrastructure as a Service” space by offering cloud infrastructure similar to Amazon Web Services. This first effort is billed as a “limited preview”.

Google’s Compute Engine allows users to spin up virtual machines. Now coupled with Google’s App Engine, Google Apps and Drive the company is building out a very robust cloud stack and says they will provide all the access to its computing power to interested companies.

However there is competition, companies like Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, VMware, and HP also have cloud stacks in this space. Google states they are in it to win it with raw performance and sheer computing power.

There are indeed some pluses Google brings to the game like easy integration with Google Docs, allowing users to work offline in Chrome, and ultimately on Chromebooks.

Urs Holzle, senior vice president for technical infrastructure at Google, talked up Google’s infrastructure as a service effort. Holzle, also claims that Google App Engine has a million active apps, and heavily pitched the company’s service levels, value and performance.

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Apple’s iCloud: Sluggish and unresponsive

Jun 28, ’12 7:08 PM

The following may just be my own personal experience with iCloud. Your experiences may differ.

Since I have been prompted, encouraged and enticed to dump MobileMe for iClould I have had a bit of a rough time of it.

for me iClould crashes frequently and in general has been a huge step backwards from MobileMe.

I understand product pivots and corporate changes of direction, these are business decisions that often push the envelope to good places. But when users are forced to become guniea pigs to the experiment I cease to be amused or appeased.
After I lose almost a hour each day just accessing and organizing my mail I begin to lose my sense of adventure. There is enough stuff that does not work in the diverse world of computing for the few things that did work begin to function inappropriately.
The big quandry for me is why in the heck it hangs up my whole computer causing me to perform a hard restart. I have tried iCloud with various browsers with the same result. I have not given up yet but my patience is wearing real thin.

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Google…Whatever Dude!

Jun 28, ’12 6:41 PM

Take a word, any word. Now precede it with Google and you have what seems to be Google’s new naming convention and possibly more.

Google Glass, Google Now & Google Play, are a few of the first but certainly they will not be the last.

Try it. Think of a word preferably a noun and append the word Google in front of it and imagine what product it spells out.

  • Google undies
  • Google gaspump
  • Google pies
  • Google .45s

These examples are about as silly as the real products we are now being offered. Some of the products are actually quite worthy but the current naming convention causes me pause.

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Google I/O becoming a big deal event

Jun 28, ’12 4:48 PM

Google I/O is really turning out to be more of a major technology spectacle and event than ever in previous years. Google is finally revealing the fruit of all the innovations it has stimulated internally and throughout the developer community and the external innovations it has diligently monitored and tracked over the years.

Of course there are the obligatory presentations , keynotes and leading industry speakers including a whole showroom floor full of product demos and informal networking opportunities.

Google I/O 2012 has become the launch pad for a number of innovative products and accessories.

Highlights:

  • Google Nexus 7 Tablet Introduction
  • Google Glass update
  • Android 4.0 Jelly Bean preview
  • Hangouts and Google+
For an event initially and traditionally aimed at developers Google I/O now speaks to consumers and media looking to identify the better device/platform mix.

 

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