Google and VMware Collaborate on Enterprise Public Cloud

VMware today announced, as part of an expanded agreement between the company and Google, the Google Cloud Platform will be tightly integrated into VMware’s vCloud Air, providing enterprise customers with greater access to industry-leading cloud services on VMware’s hybrid cloud platform.

The initial set of Google Cloud Platform services that will be available on vCloud Air include:

Google Cloud Storage – Google’s distributed low-cost object storage service

• Google BigQuery – A real-time big data analytics service suitable for running ad-hoc business intelligence queries across billions of data points in seconds
• Google Cloud Datastore – Google’s schema-less, document-based NoSQL database service with automatic scale and full transactional integrity
• Google Cloud DNS – A globally distributed low-latency DNS service

Expected to be available later this year, existing VMware vCloud Air customers will have access to the new services under their current service contract and existing network interconnect, and simply pay for the Google Cloud Platform services they consume. The two companies also announced they are exploring extended management support for Google Cloud Platform as part of VMware’s award-winning vRealize Cloud Management Suite.

Murali Sitaram, managing director, Global Partner Strategy & Alliances, Google, said, “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.”

Bill Fathers, executive vice president and general manager, Cloud Services Business Unit, VMware, said, “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 center infrastructure.”