Google Cloud Platform Now Available to Everyone Including Businesses

It was announced by Google today at I/O that its Google Cloud Platform is now available to everyone.

Currently the service, has around 3 million users but now it can be envisaged that businesses will make use of this new general availability and will certainly be a strong competitor with its services when compared to the popular Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the emerging Microsoft Windows Azure.

The main features on the Google cloud platform announced are:

• Sub-hour billing charges for instances in one-minute increments with a 10-minute minimum, as a result developers only pay for compute minutes that they use.
• Shared-core instances provide smaller instance shapes for low-intensity workloads.
• Advanced Routing features help create gateways and VPN servers and enables developers to build applications that span local network and Google’s cloud.
• Large persistent disks support up to 10 terabytes per volume.

Google is using its attractive existing data-center infrastructure in order to attract developers and businesses. Where software app developers can benefit from APIs that allow them to integrate with apps with the usage of data centers for compute and storage development. 

Feel free to add your comments to this post, thank you.

BlackBerry Enterprise Messaging Platform New Features for Users

Today there is a new update on BlackBerry Enterprise IM 3.0, where users of BlackBerry 10 now have new messaging capabilities. The new features include integration with third-party services, such as  Microsoft Lync, Office Communication Server and IBM Lotus Sametime.

The way it works is that messaging data is encrypted from send state to read state, it then results that it not only protects BlackBerry enterprise users but also protects users on desktops and third-party platform-enabled smartphones.

It was announced today, by BlackBerry Frank Cotter of which it stated: "To be competitive in today's fast-paced marketplace, you need to enable your workers with tools that let them collaborate in real time." In this interesting development, it means that the enterprise mobility management solution now works across multi-platforms.

Furthermore, BlackBerry has plans to launch BlackBerry Messenger to iPhones, iPads and Android-based devices.

Feel free to add your comments to this post, thank you.

Google Cloud Notification Messaging Service Now Available on Chrome

Following 2012's announcement at Google I/0 on the availability for cloud push notification messaging service designed for Android. It now follows that this week, this service is now also available to Chrome and Chrome OS. 

As a result, software cloud app developers can now create Chrome apps with the capabilities built-in that allows developers to wake up their apps remotely or with a combination of either sending simultaneously notification messages directly to their all cloud app end users from a central server.

The Google chief Mark Scott wrote further details following the announcement in his blog post ”event pages keep apps and extensions efficient by allowing them to respond to a variety of events, such as timers or navigation to a particular site, without having to remain running persistently.” 

On the Chrome platform push notification messages can be delivered directly to signed-in users provided the user has the respective cloud app installed.

There are sample apps including in-depth tutorials, for any developers wishing to create software apps this new functionality.

Feel free to add your comments to this post, thank you.