Google makes it easy to migrate VMware environments to your cloud – TechCrunch

Google Cloud today announced the next step in its partnership with VMware: the Google Cloud VMware Engine. This fully managed service provides businesses with a full stack of VMware Cloud Foundation on Google Cloud to help businesses easily migrate their existing VMware environments to Google infrastructure. Cloud Foundation is the VMware stack for hybrid and private cloud deployments

Since Google Cloud is focused on business customers, it's no surprise that the company continues to leverage partnerships with companies like VMware to attract more workloads from these companies. Less than a year ago, Google announced that the VMware Cloud Foundation would be coming to Google Cloud and that it would start supporting VMware workloads. Then last November, Google Cloud acquired CloudSimple,

a company specializing in the execution of VMware environments and with which Google had already partnered for its original VMware deployments. The company describes today's announcement as the third leg of this journey.

VMware Engine provides users with all standard Cloud Foundation components: vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX-T and HCX. With this, Google Cloud CEO June Yang points out in today's announcement that businesses can quickly defend their own software-defined data center in Google Cloud.

"Google Cloud VMware The engine is designed to minimize your operating load, so you can focus on your business, "he says." We are dealing with the life cycle of the VMware the software stacks and manages all infrastructure and associated updates. Customers can continue to take advantage of IT management tools and third-party services based on their local environment. "

Google also works with third-party vendors such as NetApp, Veeam, Zerto, Cohesity and Dell Technologies to ensure that their solutions also work on the Google platform.

"As customers seek to simplify their migration journey to the cloud, we are committed to creating cloud services to help customers benefit from increased agility and execution efficiency. VMware Google Cloud workloads, "said Bob Black, director of Dell Technologies Global Alliance at Deloitte Consulting." By combining Google Cloud technology and Deloitte's business transformation experience, we can enable our common customers to accelerate their migration to the cloud, unify your operations and take advantage of innovative Google Cloud services while modernizing your applications. "