Comments on: Google acquires an infrastructure startup Talaria. Will it help Google crush AWS?

By: sxw

sxw — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:20:54 +0000

Having being a intensive AWS developers for about a year, I can see quite a few fundamental issues with regard to AWS that someone can do a much better job. Yes, there is absolutely room for another player, targeting for enterprise. Go for 10x or better performance would be one.

By: jhesr

jhesr — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 02:21:09 +0000

Anybody that thinks that AWS owns the public cloud market is plain crazy. AWS is bringing in around $2 billion in revenue. That is miniscule.

By: Kazuya Mishima

Kazuya Mishima — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:22:34 +0000

Talaria, a company that was building a “new, dynamic web application server with a JIT-based runtime at its heart,” just announced that it has been acquired by Google. The Talaria team will become part of the Google Cloud Platform ..http://bit.ly/WpisCo

By: Rooting for google

Rooting for google — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:12:01 +0000

It is fantastic that google is finally serious about competing against aws. And to trainspotting, price would be one reason to switch, but the 20x performance on writes would be another.

http://gigaom.com/2013/03/15/by-the-numbers-how-google-compute-engine-stacks-up-to-amazon-ec2/

That enormous purchase google made of dark fiber a decade ago is looking smarter and smarter. Google has an unfair advantage over amazon here that they can leverage.

Now if google would just make google docs not suck, it will have executed on the two obvious 20b low hanging fruit opportunities that have been sitting in its face for years.

By: Yudi

Yudi — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:24:12 +0000

Hope, we can use Talaria as it support php platform.

First i heard of Talaria. Thanks for sharing this info.

We are developers from india if any one would like to seek more on PHP platform then visit: synram(dot)com

By: justincormack

justincormack — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:12:40 +0000

Note that HipHop now has a JIT compiler too as well as the ahead of time version, which is apparently more effective. Not sure of thats what Talaria are using.

By: Statspotting.com

Statspotting.com — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 06:28:14 +0000

It is not easy to move people away from AWS – it is a strange lock-in mechanism – it is a complete ecosystem with community images and all that. any case, unless you have a huge price differential, a migration is not justified. To add to all this, AWS is actually great as well.

Google / MS missed the boat on this one and allowed a retailer to own the market. Maybe they never thought it would be so big?

http://statspotting.com/aws-stats-1-5-billion-in-revenues-for-2012/