Google Gives Early-Stage Startups Cloud Credit

by Laurie Sullivan , September 12, 2014

Google announced a program Friday that gives $100,000 cloud credit to startups. Google Cloud Platform for Startups aims to help early-stage companies quickly launch and scale their businesses. The support comes in the form of continual access to the technical solutions team. Media agencies that qualify will have the digital storage they need to store and share files with clients.

At the Google for Entrepreneurs Global Partner Summit, Google Fellow Urs Holzle said the offer becomes available to startups worldwide through incubators, accelerators and investors. "We are currently working with over 50 global partners to provide this offer to startups [with] less than $5 million dollars in funding and have less than $500,000 in annual revenue," he wrote in a blog post.

Forrester Research in February published a report titled "What The Evolution Of Cloud Storage Means For I&O." In it, the research firm lists average prices. "Pricing ranges from just under $0.10 per GB per month to as low as $0.04 per GB per month for customers with over 5 PB of data that can tolerate a reduced availability service-level agreement (SLA)," per the study. "New entrants such as Google Cloud Storage have attempted to set lower price points to undercut incumbents and create differentiation, only to see those price cuts matched, which has prevented pricing from being a major point of differentiation."

Approximately 39% of cloud-focused developers are planning to use cloud resources to stand up the Web application infrastructure or 38% to support mobile apps, per the Forrester report. Data and storage use will both increase. Data at enterprises has grown 45% during the last two years, with the average enterprise storage footprint increasing from 2,200 TB to 3,200 TB, per the report.

Enterprises worldwide will spend more than $235 billion on cloud architecture and services by 2017 -- up 35% from the $174 billion projected this year -- and triple the $78 billion spent in 2011, per research firm HIS. The amount spent on cloud support will rise 20% from $145 billion last year, per the company.

Some of Google's cloud storage customers include Best Buy, Evite, R/GA, Sony Music, Ubisoft, and Udacity.

The news comes two days after Google's Google Spam & Abuse Team posted on its Online Security Blog explaining the possible Gmail password leak, known in security circles as "credential dumps." Google said it found "less than 2% of the username and password combinations might have worked, and our automated anti-hijacking systems would have blocked many of those login attempts. We’ve protected the affected accounts and have required those users to reset their passwords."

Along with protecting Gmail accounts, users should also protect cloud storage bins. Experts suggests using two-step verification, update recovery options, and change the password to something a bit stronger than a name in a dictionary.

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Peter Cao from E.T., September 12, 2014 at 8:10 p.m.
Sebastian Thrun of Udacity mentioned in this article had collateralled with a criminal suspect named gabriele scheler in a series of fascism crimes starting from a Stanford campus atrocity case — Stanford police case number: IR #04-111-0335;Victim: Peter Cao; Criminal Suspect: Gabriele Scheler] which induced a series of fascism crimes and which had endangered human lives; —http://t.cn/SXQ6Rj —
From there, there comes a war between fascism and anti-fascism, at this stage, fascism still prevails in our lives; Sebastian Thrun and Gabriele Scheler are just front figures we could see in a fascism circle, there is a whole pack of fascists behind them to cover up their crimes and to retaliate on victims; — Miscarriage of justice is going on --- here is the link to this criminal suspect Gabriele Scheler's website ----http://t.cn/RPbiq5G—
— Such fascism crimes have to be disciplined by laws and such fascists like Gabriele Scheler and Sebastian Thrun and the likes have to be brought to justice; they can’t escape from it :)
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Peter Cao from E.T., September 12, 2014 at 8:23 p.m.

--- Miscarriage of justice is one horrible horrible thing that could ever happen to human society; it could result in the victims being further victimized; it could produce retaliatory fascism crimes directly from the judicial system;

--- The point is, though I am a victim while Gabriele Scheler a criminal suspect, my life has been underhandedly cursed and systematically retaliated by fascism powers behind Sebastian Thrun for over 10 years without an end ever since Gabriele Scheler recanted her testimony and falsely accused me at somewhere unknown to me in the judicial system; Sebastian Thrun and Gabriele Scheler's follow up retaliatory crimes had been collateralled by some officers (namely ZZZ/YYY/VVV) who's handling Scheler's recanted testimony in the judicial system, and who hided their identities from me during these many years till today; Neither did I ever see their materials to accuse me, nor did I get a chance to defend myself; i.e. their underhanded retaliatory fascism crimes are coming from the judicial system, as well; --- Miscarriage of justice is going on;

--- What's the real identities of judicial officers (namely ZZZ/YYY/VVV) handling Gabriele Scheler's recanted testimony? How can I see their materials to accuse me? Can anyone let us know? I have serious questions to ask them;