Google Cloud and VMware Expand Global Partnership to Help Enterprises Accelerate App Modernization and Cloud Transformation
Google Cloud and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced an expanded partnership to help customers accelerate app modernization and cloud transformation. Customers will now be able to use the VMware Cloud Universal program to take advantage of Google Cloud VMware Engine. Through this extended partnership, enterprise customers will gain greater financial flexibility, choice, and the ability to accelerate their cloud migrations and modernize their enterprise applications in Google Cloud.
Google Cloud VMware Engine enables customers to migrate VMware applications to the cloud without changes to applications, tools, or processes, often in less than an hour(1). The VMware Cloud Verified and native Google Cloud service provides enterprise-ready cloud infrastructure for business-critical vSphere workloads with security capabilities, availability, resource optimization, manageability, and operational support built into the core service. Once in the cloud, customers can immediately begin creating hybrid applications that enable their businesses to be more agile, with more secure access to Google services like BigQuery and cloud operations, and extend their existing disaster recovery, backup, and storage services. With Google Cloud VMware Engine combined with VMware Cloud Universal, enterprises can achieve:
Customers across industries like retail, telco and manufacturing are using Google Cloud VMware Engine today to modernize and speed the migration of business-critical workloads to Google Cloud.
“We are migrating and modernizing our workloads to reduce costs and give us more agility in the cloud,” said Hiroshi Shimizu, manager, digital transformation department, Asahi Group Japan, Ltd. “We have many systems to modernize, and we are confident that Google Cloud VMware Engine will accelerate our modernization journey. In addition, we also wanted to store our data nearer to our data analytics platform using BigQuery to enable us to make business decisions more quickly.”