Microsoft is satiating customers’ appetite for ever more affordable pricing with news today of per-minute billing, no charge for stopping virtual machines (VM) and discounted developer and test rates. Paying by the minute allows a customer to run a VM, cloud service, website or mobile service for only the minutes used in an hour. Previously a customer would be charged for the full hour even if the… → Read More
Google is bringing Debian to Google Compute Engine and is making it the default OS for developers using the service. Google will support both Debian 6.0 and 7.0, which was released this week.
There are some pretty clear reasons why Google is making Debian the default OS. First of all, it’s free, said Krishnan Subramanian, a cloud analyst and founder of Rishidot Research. “With Ubuntu and… → Read More
Julia Ferraioli runs developer relations for Google Compute Engine, the new cloud play the company now has in limited beta. I caught up with Julia at the Strata Conference yesterday to talk about her job and the change she and her colleagues are seeing in the Google developer community as more people use the cloud to build apps. → Read More
Google Compute Engine Limited Preview beta customers who want to continue using the cloud service will have to fork over their credit-card numbers after receiving emails announcing the March 1 end of their free trials. → Read More
Google has dropped cloud storage pricing 20 percent, has added a set of new features, and is expanding its availability in Europe — all in advance of rival Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) first major event this week in Las Vegas. → Read More
Cloudscaling has opened up the Google Compute Engine (GCE) APIs to OpenStack, allowing customers that use the open, federated cloud to access Google’s vast cloud infrastructure.
Cloudscaling, a San Francisco startup, is one of the pioneers in building clouds in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) style. The company will provide engineering and code development to implement GCE APIs into the OpenStack… → Read More
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