Does Google Have the Ooomph to PaaS Other Vendors
June 24, 2011
Writer Derrick Harris details several potential problems for Google in Gigaom’s article, “Can Google App Engine Compete in the Enterprise?”
First and foremost, the company has discontinued the App Engine for Business. That service was specially designed to function in enterprise environments, and was created in partnership with VMware. It seems that many users balked at limitations, like the inability to gain access from outside the owner’s domain.
Google is still working on the more generic App Engine, which is currently in preview mode, but the Platform as a Service’s (PaaS) full release may come too late for the company to profit fully. Harris conferred with the senior product manager for Google App Engine, Gregory D’alesandre, before drawing his conclusions, asserting:
D’alesandre acknowledged that he’s impressed with some of the PaaS offerings that have hit the market lately. If anything, timing might be critical for Google, which will need to get the production-ready App Engine into the market before any of the myriad other PaaS offerings gather too much momentum. I thought App Engine for Business was a formidable competitor when announced, but time and new PaaS launches — including from Amazon Web Services — have dulled its edge.
Harris also points out that Google’s architecture is considered outdated by at least one insider. That’s not good.
The GOOG is still a giant, but it had better step up its game if it wants such stature in the enterprise market. Our view is that the chatter about new cloud centric platform services is increasing. At the same time, technical issues and concerns about security are capturing headlines. Once again, truth and fiction become difficult to separate. We will just PaaS. Next.
Cynthia Murrell June 23, 2011
ArnoldIT.com, the resource for enterprise search information and current news about data fusion
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