Google, VMWare Partner for Cloud Boost

On Thursday, Google and VMWare announced that they have teamed up to integrate select Google services into vCloud Air.

Four of Google's cloud offerings - Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Google Cloud Datastore, and Google Cloud DNS - will become available later this year through VMWare's hybrid public cloud service, vCloud Air. Under the terms of the agreement, VMWare will sell Google's public cloud services to enterprise users and will integrate the Google Cloud Platform with its vCloud Air platform, formerly vCloud Hybrid Service. "Our collaboration will provide customers with a unique hybrid solution that combines the power and efficiencies of VMware virtualization and the hyperscale of Google Cloud Platform," said Google's managing director of Global Partner and Strategy Alliances Murali Sitaram. "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."

In a statement on the announcement, Bill Fathers, executive vice president and general manager of the Cloud Services Business Unit at VMware said, "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. 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." Google and VMWare are currently exploring extended management support for the Google services via VMWare's vRealize Cloud Management Suite and expect to launch the VMWare-supported services later this year.