Google Cloud Platform Blog
The need for speed: this week on Google Cloud Platform
Friday, June 10, 2016
Posted by Alex Barrett, Editor, Google Cloud Platform Blog
When people start using
Google Compute Engine
, our infrastructure as a service offering, one of the first things they notice is how fast their VMs boot up. Internally, we’ve clocked VM boot times that are anywhere from two to ten times faster than other cloud providers.
So it’s really nice when the world notices, and validates our work with an independent analysis. In a blog, Kasia Hoffman of
Cloud66
, an application deployment tool provider, compared the speed of VM creation and SSH access across ten cloud providers, and found that Compute Engine leads the pack, by significant margins for many use cases. You can read the whole report
here
.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
We also like to do things that are usually slow, fast. Cloud-based cold storage has emerged as a great way to store infrequently used data such as data backups for short money. This Data Center Knowledge report
compares cold storage
from the three leading providers, including our own
Google Cloud Storage Nearline
. The takeaway here is that just because you won’t access the data frequently doesn’t mean you won’t want to access it fast when you need it. With Nearline, you can expect to see data retrieval begin in as little as one second.
Finally, we love stories about how GCP helps folks get things done, fast. With a new site launch right around the corner, Dane Tidwell
describes
his last-minute decision to switch out the ecommerce engine for the web site for WooCommerce plus WordPress running on GCP. “But hoorah, it works,” he writes. Hoorah, indeed.
No comments :
Post a Comment
Don't Miss Next '17
Use promo code NEXT1720 to save $300 off general admission
REGISTER NOW
Free Trial
GCP Blogs
Big Data & Machine Learning
Kubernetes
GCP Japan Blog
Labels
Announcements
56
Big Data & Machine Learning
91
Compute
156
Containers & Kubernetes
36
CRE
7
Customers
90
Developer Tools & Insights
80
Events
34
Infrastructure
24
Management Tools
39
Networking
18
Open Source
105
Partners
63
Pricing
24
Security & Identity
23
Solutions
16
Stackdriver
19
Storage & Databases
111
Weekly Roundups
16
Archive
2017
Feb
Jan
2016
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2015
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2014
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2013
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2012
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2011
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2010
Dec
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2009
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2008
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Feed
Subscribe by email
Technical questions? Check us out on
Stack Overflow
.
Subscribe to
our monthly newsletter
.
Google
on
Follow @googlecloud
Follow
Follow
Follow
No comments :
Post a Comment