Google on board as 2nd Gold Sponsor of The Cloud Circle July Forum!

We are delighted to announce that one of the key players in the Cloud Computing market place, Google, will be joining us at The 2nd Cloud Circle Forum, 8 July 2010.

Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising programme provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Furthermore, last Wednesday Google announced its new development tools and opportunities to more than 5,000 attendees at annual developer conference (Google IO 2010) which took place in San Francisco.

This year's I/O event stood as a recognition and celebration of the web's evolution into the software development platform of choice as well as an opportunity for Google to share its work in moving the web forward and keeping it open. The web has become more powerful in more places -- from enterprise deployments to mobile handsets.

"Think of how far the web has come since last year's Google I/O, where we demonstrated the potential of HTML5," said Vic Gundotra, Google vice president of developer platforms. "Since calling attention to HTML5 last year, we've been thrilled to see the industry rally around making the web faster, more capable, and available in more places. From enterprises to consumers, from the smallest form factors to the largest, the web's reach and increasing capability make it the platform for the future."

Google's announcements enable developers to take full advantage of the web platform:

An open, global platform means better performance and broader access for all applications

•    Chrome Web Store: Google is announcing the Chrome Web Store, an open marketplace for web apps that helps people find the best web applications across the internet and allows developers to reach new users.
•    WebM Project: Google joined a broad array of companies and web community members to announce WebM, an open web media format project. We have open-sourced VP8, a high-quality, web-optimised video codec, and are contributing to the project under a royalty-free license.
•    Wave open sign-ups: Google Wave is open to all users at wave.google.com, as a Google Labs product -- no invitation needed. Google Apps administrators will also have the option to add Wave as a Labs feature for their domains, helping groups of people communicate and work together more productively.

The web is ready for enterprise-class app development

•    App Engine for Business: Google App Engine for Business lets companies build and maintain their own applications on the same scalable infrastructure that powers Google applications, with added management and support features tailored specifically for the enterprise. New capabilities for businesses include the ability to manage all the apps in an organisation from one place, simple pricing based on users and applications, premium developer support, a 99.9% uptime service level agreement, and coming later this year, access to premium features like cloud-based SQL and SSL.

VMware Collaboration: Google and VMware introduce cloud portability, which makes it easy for Java developers to use familiar tools to rapidly develop and deploy rich web apps in the environments of their choice. In just one click, users of the new versions of SpringSource Tool Suite and Google Web Toolkit can deploy their application onto Google App Engine for Business, or a VMware environment, or other infrastructure such as Amazon EC2.

More information about Google I/O 2010 is available at http://code.google.com/events/io/.

If you and colleagues would like to opportunity to meet with Google and discuss their new tools and offerings at The 2nd Cloud Circle Forum, 8 July 2010, contact Hannah or call 0207 202 7480 and register today!