Cloud Sherpas Joins Google Cloud Platform Partner Program

July 24, 2012 - PRLog -- Cloud Sherpas today announced it has joined the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program as a Services Partner. Combined with their mobile app development expertise and years of experience building apps in the cloud, the Google Cloud Platform suite enables Cloud Sherpas to deliver desktop solutions, native and HTML5 mobile applications, Chrome extensions and more to businesses that are seeking to maximize connectivity across their organization and ensure employees are always in-the-know--from any device, anytime, anywhere.

“The Google Cloud Platform Partner Program enables us to enhance our cloud-based services and solution offerings for the global enterprises, local businesses, governments and educational institutions we serve by building on the power of the Google Cloud Platform,” said Tim Lockyear, Director of Application Development at Cloud Sherpas.  “The Google Cloud Platform offers a broad set of application development, cloud storage, large scale computing, and big data capabilities that provides us with the tools to help our clients develop customized desktop and mobile applications that bring their cloud strategy to life.”  

Cloud Sherpas has a long history of working with Google’s Cloud Platform products to build custom solutions for its customers. “After helping us migrate our workforce to Google Apps, Cloud Sherpas developed an intranet with custom App Engine-powered applications and trained our developers on how to build their own applications using elements of the Google Cloud Platform including the Google App Engine,” said Tristan Dobbs of Classic Cinemas. “Their deep knowledge of the tools, and their substantial experience, was apparent throughout our project.”

Google’s Cloud Platform products enable customers to implement:

--Cloud app solutions, such as mobile apps, social apps, business process apps, and websites, using Google App Engine and Google Cloud SQL.

--Cloud storage solutions, such as high-end backup and recovery, active archiving, global file sharing/collaboration, and primary SAN/NAS, using Google Cloud Storage.

--Large-scale computing solutions, such as batch processing, data processing and high performance computing using Google Compute Engine.

--Big data solutions, such as interactive tools, trend detection and BI dashboards, using Google BigQuery and Google Prediction API.

“To help customers get the most out of our cloud platform products,” explains Eric Morse, Head of Sales and Business Development, for Google’s Cloud Platform, “we work closely with services firms, like Cloud Sherpas, that deliver custom applications and other infrastructure solutions on top of Google’s Cloud Platform.”

The Google Cloud Platform Partner Program includes Services Partners such as systems integrators, IT consultant firms, developers, web designers, and other professional services companies that help clients design, develop, and manage new cloud-based solutions.  Customers benefit by engaging with Cloud Sherpas, which has invested in developing the skills needed to build these powerful new solutions on top of Google’s Cloud Platform.  For more information on Cloud Sherpas and our cloud-based offerings, please visit http://www.cloudsherpas.com.