VMware Adds Essential Google Cloud Services To vCloud Air

Google and VMware have hooked up to offer four Google cloud services to VMware’s hybrid cloud corporate customers.

The Google Cloud Platform services that will be available on vCloud Air are Google’s object storage service, Google BigQuery big data analytics, Google Cloud Datastore NoSQL database service, and Google’s Cloud DNS service.

Google’s managing director of partner strategies, Murali Sitaram, said that the alliance was ‘unique’.

Security, scalability, and price performance

He 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.”

If you’re a vCloud user and the availability of Google services gets you excited, unfortunately no concrete date has been set just yet for the marriage. Google claims that it’s expected “to be available later this year”.

VMware said: “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.”

Bill Fathers, executive VP of VMware’s cloud services business Unit, 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.”

Both companies get a clear win out of this partnership, with VMware bolting on enticing Google services to its products and Google gaining the ability to be plonked right in front of some very important enterprise customers.

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