Google has embraced the Docker container technology and expanded the Firebase mobile development platform
Continuing to keep pace with chief cloud rivals Amazon Web Services and
Microsoft Azure, Google has made a number of improvements to its Google
Cloud Platform services.
A series of announcements made to show the company
embracing the newest virtual technologies, such as Docker containers
and the Firebase platform to aid mobile developers, as it continues to
cut prices of its services.
In the realm of virtualization, the company has devised a way to make
it easy to use Docker containers, a new lightweight virtualization
technology. The company has devised the Google Container Engine service
for building and running Docker containers. The engine is based on the
open-source Kubernetes project.
The company also explained what it is doing with the mobile platform technology created by Firebase, which Google bought last month. Firebase offers a way to speed the process of connecting mobile applications to back-end data sources.
Google
has expanded the range of queries that can be made against the data
sets held by Firebase. Users can now sort the data by arbitrary fields,
as well as filter the data. The service also now offers triggers, in
which developers can define certain actions to take place if a set of
conditions are met.
Google has expanded the number of ways users can connect to the cloud service.
The
company now offers direct peering, in which corporate customers can
setup a network link directly into a Google data center. Google offers
70 points of presence in 33 countries. The company also can provide
dedicated connectivity through seven carriers: Verizon, Equinix, IX
Reach, Level 3, Tata Communications, Telx, and Zayo.
Expanding the
connectivity options even further, Google will start offering VPN
connections, which can provide a secure pipeline over the public
Internet.
Like rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, Google continues to aggressively cut prices of its services, which it vowed to continue to do as the price of hardware decreases.
The cost of copying data from the Google Cloud has been cut by 47
percent. Many cuts have been made in storage space as well: the cost of
BigQuery storage has been cut by 23 percent, persistent disk snapshots
have been cut by 79 percent, solid-state storage has been cut by 48
percent, and Cloud SQL storage costs have been cut by 25 percent.
The company introduced a number of other features to its cloud, including:
- Managed virtual machines, introduced earlier this year, is in full beta release.
- A debugger, in beta form, that could provide users with more information when services don't operate as expected.
- A type of compute engine based on solid-state disks. The "Local SSD" compute engine can execute up to 680,000 read IOPS (input/output operations per second) or 280,000 write IOPS.
- An autoscaler has been released in beta that can automatically grow or shrink a fleet of virtual machines based on customer needs.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com
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