Case Study: CaptureToCloud achieves rapid launches, major cost savings and effortless scalability with Google Cloud Platform

Startup Saves Money, Launches Fast and Iterates with Google App Engine

CaptureToCloud, a San Jose startup that helps users capture and share web pages, email, images and documents, needed a lean IT approach that avoided the setup and maintenance burden of IaaS and provided automatic scalability to support future growth.

They chose Google App Engine PaaS, using features like the High Replication Datastore, automatic scaling, fast deployments (new releases in ~10 minutes) and Google Apps integration to iterate quickly and roll out seamless updates. As a result the app has been downloaded over 18,000 times with near‑perfect ratings, the team avoided roughly $70,000 in server/rack costs and about $300,000/year in additional staffing, and gained easy, cost‑effective scalability.

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Fritz Mueller

Vice President of Product Management