Google’s decision to offer the lightweight and open source CoreOS operating system will further differentiate the company’s cloud platform by empowering developers to efficiently launch large-scale ...

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Google hopes its cloud will have greater redundancy and reliability than that provided by Amazon Web Services, thanks to some of the secretive technology the cloud sits on. Craig McLuckie, product ...

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Google Compute Engine provides infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) computing that will enable Wowza customers to run high-demand media streaming using Linux virtual machines hosted on Google ...

With its Google Compute Engine launched Thursday, Google is offering an IaaS (infrastructure as a service) cloud for running Linux virtual machines on the same infrastructure that powers the company ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on disruptive trends in technology and cloud computing. The IaaS service is very similar to Amazon's EC2 service which it ...

Google's cloud business are unlikely to be spun out -- further evidence Google is less transformative and groundbreaking than it ought to be News of Google’s massive restructuring has already gone ...

Google started work on the Google Compute Engine over a year and a half ago, and it was all Peter Magnusson could do to keep his mouth shut. Magnusson is the director of engineering for Compute Engine ...

Here is a cloud computing feature that may seem a bit odd at first but that does actually have its uses. Google’s Compute Engine today launched the beta of a new feature called “nested virtualization.