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Google Compute Engine Performance Test with RightScale and Apica

Posted by Brian Adler   Ι   June 17, 2013 0 comments
With the resources and flexibility cloud computing provides, any organization can run its applications in the world’s best data centers, on the world’s best networks and servers. Organizations looking to leverage cloud infrastructures want to understand how that translates to real-world application performance. We’ve seen growing interest in Google Compute Engine (GCE) among organizations considering a cloud strategy, so we teamed up with Apica, a third-party website testing, optimization, and monitoring company, to test GCE to see what performance consumers of these resources can expect.

Google Compute Engine and RightScale Join Forces to Sell High-Performance Cloud

Last week we announced that RightScale has become Google's first partner to resell Google Compute Engine. This news marks a milestone in a long and ongoing process. We have been working with Google on Google Compute Engine since 2011, providing input on its development and integrating RightScale — and that work just won us Google's North American Partner of the Year for Cloud Platform award. We were at Google I/O last year for the launch of Google Compute Engine, and we've been impressed with the platform's power, building as it does on Google’s expertise at running global scale infrastructure. Although it is still in technical preview, we think Google Compute Engine is going to be a strong competitor in the public IaaS space, and RightScale can help customers get on board now.

How to Manage Cloud Costs and Optimize Resource Usage

Last year RightScale announced the acquisition of PlanForCloud, a cloud cost forecasting tool that enables you to model your cloud infrastructure, run it through a simulation, and get a three-year cost report showing what your deployment will cost. We know how hard it can be to figure out cloud costs and optimize your usage, so we made it easier with our free cloud cost forecasting tool. We’ve since added a number of new features, which I’ll highlight here. Plus I’ve got some tips on how you can use this powerful tool to plan and budget for your cloud costs.

RightScale Joins Google Compute Engine for Launch Day

Today we'll be demoing RightScale managing a deployment on Google Compute Engine during the launch presentation at Google I/O at 1:30pm (PT). With the release of Google Compute Engine, the year 2012 is becoming a turning point in the evolution of cloud computing. There are now multiple public megaclouds on the market, and public cloud computing is set to become the dominant form of business computing (mobile arguably becoming the dominant form of consumer computing). I'll come back to why I am convinced of this at the end, but first let's focus on Google Compute Engine.

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