Cloud Computing: Check out what SDN can do! Google lets you load balance across regions
June 16, 2014
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Stacey Higginbotham.
Google is adding two new storage and networking features to its Google Cloud Platform ahead of its user conference next week, both designed to make its cloud offerings faster and easier when compared to competing products from Amazon Web Services or Microsoft. Google is adding persistent flash storage, which my colleague Barb Darrow has already covered, and HTTP load balancing across regions.
The load balancing is a fulfillment of the hope for automatic shifting of compute resources from data center to data center without disrupting the workload. It offers developers the opportunity to scale up compute in certain regions closest to demand and could theoretically offer a developer a chance to follow the cheapest computing costs around the globe if Google offered something like spot pricing…
This is a pretty big deal, so I asked Tom Kershaw, product management lead at Google, how the company manages it. He credited three things: the Andromeda software-defined networking platform underlying all of Google’s Cloud Platform, algorithms that can detect networking constraints and then figure out where to move them, and the fact that Google broadcasts a single IP address for its entire cloud…
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