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Google announced on its cloud platform blog that it is teaming up with AppScale to allow more flexibility for its App Engine. AppScale is a startup company born out of a UCSB Computer Science research project.

"With AppScale you can run your App Engine app on any physical or cloud infrastructure, wherever you want. You also have the flexibility of configuring AppScale yourself, or working with AppScale Systems to manage the infrastructure for you."
- Miles Ward, Global Head of Solutions, Google Cloud Platform

Maria Deutscher at siliconangle.com writes, "...represents a groundbreaking push to address the portability issues plaguing the public cloud. ...the startup's namesake technology allows applications written for the platform to run on any kind of infrastructure, including on-premise hardware and competing clouds, without modification."

To read the full Google blog post, go here.

To read Maria Deutscher's article at siliconangle.com, go here.

AppScale company website.