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24 Jun 08
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In April, Google introduced Google App Engine, a service that lets developers write Python-based applications and host them on Google infrastructure at no cost with up to 500 MB of storage
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Google charges 10 to 12 cents per "CPU core hour" and 15 to 18 cents per gigabyte of storage
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Yet Google, like Amazon, has demonstrated the risks of cloud computing. Google App Engine last week was crippled for several hours
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More than half a million organizations have signed up for Google Apps--including General Electric and Procter & Gamble--and there are now some 10 million Google Apps users
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But keep that in perspective: The majority of those users are consumers, college students, and employees of small businesses, not the corporate crowd.
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Google has taken steps to make its applications, originally aimed at consumers, more attractive to IT departments
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April it partnered with Salesforce.com to integrate Salesforce CRM and Google Apps,
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Google is also adjusting to the reality that users sometimes need to work offline. Google Gears is a browser plug-in for doing that
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Google has teamed with IBM to provide cloud computing to university students and researchers
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