Google Launches Business Version Of App Engine; Collaborates With VMware
It’s no secret that Google has been ramping up its enterprise offerings. The company has made a strong push for the adoption of Google Apps, launching the Apps Marketplace, allowing Apps users to add other layers to their environments from companies like Socialwok and Zoho. Today, Google is taking it one step further. At Google I/O today, the search giant has announced that Google App Engine, a platform for building and hosting web applications in the cloud, will now include a Business version, catered towards enterprises. The new premium version allows customers to build their own business apps on Google’s cloud infrastructure. Google is also announcing a collaboration with VMware for deployment and development of apps on the new cloud infrastructure.
Announced two years ago, Google App Engine offers a full-stack, hosted, automatically scalable web application platform. Last year, Google added the ability to build Java applications off of the platform. With the newly launched Google App Engine for Business, Google is introducing new enterprise-level capabilities, including centralized administration, premium developer support and an uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA), flat monthly pricing, and soon, access to premium features like cloud-based SQL and SSL.
The new version included centralized administration, which is an administration console lets you manage all the applications in your domain. And Google promises reliability with a 99.9% uptime service level agreement, with premium developer support available. Also Google is addressing security by only allowing users from a Google Apps domain to access applications, with and administrator’s security preferences implemented on each individual app.
In terms of pricing for the new versions, each application costs $8 per user per month up to a maximum of $1000 a month. And Google is adding more enterprise-level functionality in the future, including hosted SQL databases, SSL on a company’s domain for secure communications, and access to advanced Google services.
Added to the mix of the announcement is a new collaboration with virtualization giant VMware, which just announced a partnership with Salesforce, to make it easy and fast to build apps and deploy them to either Google App Engine for Business, a VMware environment (On a vSphere infrastructure, vCloud partner, or on Salesforce’s VMforce) or other infrastructure such as Amazon EC2. The aim is to make it easy to create rich, muti-device web applications hosted in a Java-compatible hosting environment Users of Google App Engine for business can now use VMware’s SpringSource Tool Suite and Spring Roo which are integrated with Google Web Toolkit and Speed Tracer.
Google has added new data presentation widgets in Google Web Toolkit to speed development of traditional enterprise applications, increase performance and interactivity for enterprise users, and make it easier to create mobile apps. And Speed Tracer now helps developers identify and fix performance problems not only in the client and network portions of their apps, but also on the server thanks to the integration with VMware’s SpringSource tool suite.
This clearly represents Google’s big push to bring enterprise development to the cloud, by now offering a powerful and interoperable environment and toolset to developers. This should prove to be a more worthy competitor to Amazon Web Services, which is one of App Engine’s major competitors for hosting environments.
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As I commented earlier, this is another half-baked initiative by google. Enterprises should rather invest building stuff on a trusted providers like amazon. I only wish I had done that and built our app on EC2 instead of wasting a few months on Google App Engine. If you are a CIO don’t waste your time on this, just look at the rate of delivery on GAE and see if you want to bet your job on google distractions.
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Great that they Google has added SQL support – but still to be Enterprise Level most of the Advanced Enterprise App use more than SQL
Rules Engines , Thread support. File.io support etc.
Unless the Packages vendors start supporting AppEngine, you cannot really call it Enterprise Ready
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We are using Grooy on Grails that runs on top of spring as you know. However, the initialization takes about 20+ seconds and by the time it tries to do that and process the request it times out. The GAE road map talks about ability to keep instances hot to prevent the initialization cost, but where is that? Why not doubledown and deliver against the road map than try doing more. The java version has been out for a while, but it’s taking so long for google to deliver against developers requests, like text search, reserving an instance and etc. I was looking forward to IO and hoping google will provide against these long request features but google is distracted with so many projects. Everything they do know is half-baked and they’ll become a half-baked company soon as the result!
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Sa Ma, the Roo demo you saw in the Keynote was using Spring on the server side. It just replaced the JSP stuff with GWT.
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Google is doing so many thing and none of them well. This announcement is disappointing for those of us who are waiting for some critical changes for the app engine. App engine is useless now for java programmers who try to building anything on spring or groovy on grails. If you want to do 1999 style java servlets then, it’s find but any framework that requires time to initialize will fail.
This is a big let down, we invested a lot of time on google app engine and it was all a waste of time and money. Google promised changes needed, but they are constantly distracting themselves with more projects instead of double-downing on one thing and making it really good.
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Is there any idea of a self-hosted App Engine?
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