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Google partners with VMWare to adopt GAE for Enterprise
May 20, 2010 | Author: Michael Stromann
In response to the recent launch of VMForce, Google today announced the upcoming version of its cloud platform for enterprise users - Google App Engine for Business. Until now, GAE was actually not suitable for hosting enterprise applications. First, GAE does not provides enterprise-ready support, security and service level guarantees. Besides, it supports only one database - Big Table, which is not used in existing business applications, and locks clients into one platform. The enterprise version of GAE, which is scheduled for 4 quarter of 2010, will fix these issues. Corporate customers will be offered a premium support, 99.9% SLA, administration panel for managing security policies. In addition, GAE will add support for SSL and SQL databases. Instead of difficult-to-forecast scheme of payment for computer resources, the clients will pay a flat rate - $8/month for app user.
Like VMForce, Google App Engine for Business utilizes VMWare's technology. However, in this case Google and VMware partnership is less about them working together. Just Google added support for VMWare's Spring framework to its Google Web Toolkit. In result any Java-application developed on Spring can be quickly moved from in-house server to the GAE cloud. Besides, it can be quickly moved from GAE to another provider, that supports VMWare's vCloud (in particular, VMForce).
In addition, thanks to Spring widgets, any Java-application on GAE can be easily adapted to any mobile device with a browser.
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