Benefits of Google Cloud for bespoke green-field applications
September 21, 2016
Benefits of Google Cloud for bespoke green-field applications
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine
We use Google Compute Engine to support public facing clinical research patient recruitment services, the service is scalable to accommodate increase in capacity due to news items that sign post patients to the services. The platform is IaaS and data is shared with major health charities.
- Google Compute Engine provides rapid scalability without the need to worry about the infrastructure itself, this means we can focus on core development of the service.
- The platform makes it easy to link in to other Google apps and APIs.
- Google does not lend itself to legacy technologies where you may require a cloud migration strategy.
- While Google tends to solve their own problems and share solutions it can feel in bit one-way.
- Positive impact by providing a solid and scalable public facing service. The investment for us is measured in how much the service is used by the public.
For this particular use-case Google Compute Engine was the better platform as this was a focused development and did not require bespoke infrastructure to support it. The service offered allowed the opportunity to embed core Google apps and services to deliver a quality service to the public.