The Ins and Outs of Google I/O

Friday's child may be loving and giving, but Google I/O has already given its all. We've had a day of promising and exciting demos, followed by a day of more pragmatic and incremental improvements. Let's work our way backwards, shall we? Thursday's Google had far to go to measure up to Day 1. To woo enterprise customers, Google presented the cloud-based Compute Engine, chasing Amazon's AWS Elastic Compute Cloud and, more recently, Microsoft's Windows Azure. The...