Google Responds to AWS Price Cuts: We’re Still the Lowest Cost in Cloud
When Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced yet another price reduction for some of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances last week, many viewed the cuts as …
Price Wars
Shots Fired: Google Offers Apps for Work Free to Customers Under Contract With Competitors
Just when you thought the cloud wars might be quieting down as margins thin, Google fires off a new salvo of unorthodox price cuts on the Software as a …
Preemptible VM Instances Now Generally Available for Google’s Compute Engine
As of yesterday, Google’s preemptible virtual machine (VM) instances for the search giant’s Compute Engine cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) …
Gartner’s 2015 Cloud Storage Magic Quadrant: Our Key Takeaways
Analysis and research firm Gartner, Inc. has released the latest iteration of its yearly report, Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage Services, Worldwide. …
Oracle ‘Cloud Services Complete,’ But Can They Compete?
Just seven years after Oracle’s Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison called cloud computing “gibberish,” “insane,” and …
Amazon Announces Next Gen M4 Instances for EC2
Amazon Web Services announced last week the newest instance type for its EC2 cloud computing service: M4 general purpose instances. Amazon claims that M4 …
Google Drops Cloud Prices 30%, Puts AWS In Crosshairs
Google just fired the latest, loudest shot in the cloud computing price war. Yesterday, the tech giant announced that it is lowering the pricing from …