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  • Google Upgrades Platform Cloud and Joins Microsoft and Amazon's Cloud Level


    Google has upgraded its platform cloud to include a dedicated memcache, rendering the company's technology characteristically akin to the floating silos operated by Microsoft and Amazon. The open source object caching system, Memcache, is a dedicated serviced for storage of key-value data from multiple servers in pooled RAM. Its adoption by Google App Engine (GAE) comes packaged in the 1.8.2 release of the platform cloud.

    Alongside the dedicated Memcache is support for Git Push-to-Deploy, which allows developers to use the Git code management service. Google has also introduced updates relating to App Engine Modules, which enable developers to break large applications into modular components capable of sharing services. These updates also include Eclipse and PHP support.

    Dedicated memcache will bring developers performance and capacity guarantees for $0.12 cents per gigabyte per hour. They will be able to purchase in-memory data caching capacity leading to more data being cached, and with a higher cache hit rate the applications will be faster and Datastore costs reduced. This is according to a blog post Google cloud product manager Chris Ramsdale wrote.

    Google's service will be competing with Microsofts's Windows Azure Caching with memcache protocol support and Amazon's Amazon ElastiCache. Websites that use Memcache are Craigslist, Twitter, and Wikipedia.

  • SingleHop Offers 2 Gigs RAM Free


    Managed dedicated hosting provider, SingleHop, has announced that it has completed a free of charge, memory upgrade program.

    Over 900 SingleHop customers had less than 2 GB of RAM in their servers when the program commenced in July 2008.

    The company says now almost every customer has a minimum 2 GB of RAM.

    All new customers will receive a minimum of 2 GB of RAM in their servers, also free of charge.

    SingleHop allowed customers to schedule the time and date when their upgrade would be performed during the process.

    The entire program, valued at over USD $100,000, was aimed at increasing customer loyalty and satisfaction, as well as improving SingleHop’s competitiveness in the marketplace.

    Zak Boca, president of SingleHop, said two very important goals were accomplished through the upgrade program.

    “First we increased the satisfaction and loyalty of our existing clients by giving them an upgrade for free,” he said. “Second, we made our server offerings more competitive with the overall marketplace.”

    Boca said many hosting providers like to upgrade their packages for new clients, but don’t touch the packages for existing customers. He said this was counter-productive.

    “We’re just as concerned with keeping current customers happy as we are with attracting new ones,” he said.

    The third quarter of 2008 has seen a huge surge in SingleHop product offerings including:

    • the IPCast Pay-As-You-Go Content Delivery Network
    • the announcement of LEAP, the server manager webtop client portal
    • the company’s free 2GB RAM upgrade for existing clients
    • the release of Advanced Automatic Server Provisioning (AASP), a technology exclusive to SingleHop and LEAP, which drastically increases server installation time as well as reduces human error. Additionally LEAP features SingleHop’s exclusive IP ensure technology, which guarantees that clients will only receive clean IP addresses.