"By making deployments of Spring Java applications on
Google App Engine using Google Web Toolkit generally available, developers can deploy Java applications in production environments of their choice while leveraging rich web front-end across multiple devices."
The services include helping companies in building cloud computing services on public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and
Google App Engine. For instance, in November, Infosys integrated Volantis Systems' award-winning ubik.com service with Windows Azure.
They classify cloud computing services into three types: 1) single-function cloud-based applications accessed via a web browser (Gmail, Quicken Online), which use the cloud for processing power and data storage; 2) cloud infrastructures on which software developers build and host cloud apps (
Google App Engine, Joyent); and 3) cloud services that offer "sheer computing resources without a development platform layer" (Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, GoGrid).
Google App Engine allows developers to write code once and deploy, dynamically providing computing resources as they are needed, making it easier for web applications to be deployed.
Recently Google also started offering Google Go as an option on
Google App Engine, their cloud computing service.
Essential app engine; building high-performance Java apps with
Google App engine.
SAP is also "endorsing a couple of Google platforms as key standards," namely the Android mobile OS and
Google App Engine, according to Pagel.