{"id":658812,"date":"2013-05-17T19:30:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T23:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=646754"},"modified":"2013-05-17T19:30:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T23:30:48","slug":"new-networking-features-make-hybrid-clouds-possible-on-google-compute-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658812","title":{"rendered":"New networking features make hybrid clouds possible on Google Compute Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toward the tail end of Google I\/O<\/a> on Friday, Sunil James, a Google product manager (on left in picture), and John Cormie, a software engineer focusing on networking for Google Compute Engine<\/a> (GCE), showed off new network capabilities for GCE that can enable hybrid clouds running between GCE deployments and on-premise data centers.<\/p>\n

GCE customers are now able to do things like establish virtual private Layer 3 networks and assign static public IP addresses to instances, James said. Connecting networks will also become possible. And a load-balancing service is on the way “as part of the native fabric for Google Compute Engine,” James said.<\/p>\n

Developers interested in trying out GCE load balancing can fill out a form<\/a> to do so. Developers can also sign up for early access<\/a> to all emerging Google Cloud Platform features.<\/p>\n

The load balancing and routing services are the sorts of things that could help more businesses make the decision to try real projects on the newly publicly available<\/a> Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) piece of the Google Cloud Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And the new capabilities move Google a few steps closer campaign to becoming a top, widely used IaaS provider — if not one day bigger than Amazon Web Services<\/a> then at least No. 2. That position is already feasible<\/a> for Google as it is.<\/p>\n

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