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VMware, Google in public cloud drive

Admire Moyo
By Admire Moyo, ITWeb's news editor.
Johannesburg, 30 Jan 2015
VMware is excited to expand the relationship with Google, says Bill Fathers of VMware.
VMware is excited to expand the relationship with Google, says Bill Fathers of VMware.

VMware and Google have expanded their partnership to deliver greater enterprise access to public cloud services via VMware vCloud Air.

As part of the agreement, Google Cloud Platform will be integrated into vCloud Air, providing enterprises with greater access to cloud services on VMware's hybrid cloud platform.

Google and VMware work under a service contract and a network interconnect agreement. At the beginning of 2014, the companies also penned an agreement that provided the VMware desktop-as-a-service offering for cloud access to Windows applications, data and desktops on Google Chromebooks.

In terms of yesterday's agreement, all vCloud Air customers will have access to a range of new services under their current service contract and existing network interconnect agreement, and they will simply pay for the Google Cloud Platform services they consume, says VMWare.

The combination of VMware vCloud Air and Google Cloud Platform provides enterprises with greater choice when building their public cloud infrastructure, it adds.

The Google technologies to be integrated into vCloud Air include Google Cloud Storage, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Datastore, and Google Cloud DNS.

VMware notes, while this is a public service, it provides Google customers with a hybrid solution that combines the power and efficiencies of VMware virtualisation and the hyper-scale of Google Cloud Platform. Conversely, it gives Google the opportunity to sell public cloud services on the hybrid solution to clients who have typically kept their applications in-house, it adds.

VMware believes the combination of vCloud Air and Google Cloud Platform is compelling for its 500 000+ customer base.

"Our collaboration will provide customers with a unique hybrid solution that combines the power and efficiencies of VMware virtualisation and the hyper-scale of Google Cloud Platform," says Murali Sitaram, MD of global partner strategy and alliances, Google.

"As a result of this agreement, enterprise customers will be able to combine their VMware cloud environments with the security, scalability and price performance of Google's public cloud, built on the same infrastructure that allows Google to return billions of search results in milliseconds," Sitaram adds.

"We are excited to expand our relationship with Google, and offer customers the ability to use Google's rich portfolio of services while running their mission-critical applications on the vCloud air platform," says Bill Fathers, executive vice-president and general manager, Cloud Services Business Unit, VMware.

"Through this agreement, customers will gain the benefit of both vCloud Air and Google Cloud Platform in a single hybrid cloud service, supported by VMware, and fully compatible with their existing vSphere-based data centre infrastructure."

The companies also announced they are exploring extended management support for Google Cloud Platform as part of VMware's vRealize Cloud Management Suite.

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