educause: google cloud platform... and more!
DESCRIPTION
This half-hour talk was delivered in Fall 2013 to various university CIOs/CTOs at the EduCause 2013 conference. It provides an overview of cloud computing in general, then an in-depth introduction to Google App Engine, the application hosting & development platform. The talk concludes with a look at other members of the suite of products that make up the Google Cloud Platform as well as other Google-related services.TRANSCRIPT
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