Companies to Add Google Cloud VMware Engine to VMware Cloud Universal Program
Google Cloud and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced the expansion of their partnership to help customers accelerate application modernization and cloud transformation. Customers will now be able to use the VMware Cloud Universal program to leverage Google Cloud VMware Engine. With this extended partnership, enterprise customers will have greater financial flexibility, options and the ability to accelerate cloud migration and modernize enterprise applications on Google Cloud.
The Google Cloud VMware Engine allows customers to migrate VMware applications to the cloud without having to change applications, tools or processes, which typically takes customers to complete the process in less than an hour(1). The VMware Cloud Verified and Google Cloud native service provides enterprise-ready cloud infrastructure for business-critical vSphere workloads, with security, availability, resource optimization, manageability and operational support capabilities built into the core service.
Once in the cloud, customers will be able to immediately build hybrid applications that deliver business agility, with more secure access to Google services such as BigQuery and cloud operations, and extend existing DR, backup and storage services. Combining Google Cloud VMware Engine with the VMware Cloud Universal program gives businesses:
- Average savings of 38% in total cost of ownership (TCO) over three years compared to on-premises environments(1)
- Average annual savings of more than US$ 2 million(1)
- Average savings of US$ 115K in labor costs through existing VMware and Google Cloud tools(1)
- Dedicated East-West 100Gbps high availability network with a service level agreement of 99,99% uptime to cluster(2)
VMware Cloud Universal is a flexible buy and consume program for executing digital transformation and multi-cloud strategies. With Google Cloud VMware Engine as part of the VMware Cloud Universal program, VMware and VMware partners will be able to offer Google Cloud VMware Engine with other VMware Cross-Cloud services so customers can execute their digital transformation initiatives in line with your schedules, with lower overall costs and risks.
“Our partnership with VMware makes it much easier for businesses to migrate VMware applications to the reliable, high-performance infrastructure of Google Cloud,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, corporate vice president, global ecosystem, Google Cloud. “This announcement brings VMware and Google Cloud closer together and represents a significant step forward in our joint commitment to supporting enterprise digital transformations with Google Cloud VMware Engine.”
“Addressing strategic customer initiatives around application and cloud modernization, as well as distributed workforces, has been the cornerstone of the long-standing partnership between VMware and Google Cloud,” said Zia Yusuf, Senior Vice President, Strategic Ecosystem. and industry solutions from VMware.
Customers in industries such as retail, telecom and manufacturing are using Google Cloud VMware Engine to modernize and accelerate the migration of business-critical workloads to Google Cloud.
“We are migrating and modernizing our workloads to reduce costs and be more agile in the cloud,” said Hiroshi Shimizu, Digital Transformation Manager at Asahi Group Japan, Ltd. “We have a lot of systems to modernize and we are confident that Google Cloud VMware Engine will accelerate our modernization journey.”
“Nokia is moving its on-premises IT infrastructure to Google Cloud,” said Ravi Parmasad, vice president of global IT infrastructure at Nokia. “And Google Cloud VMware Engine streamlines the migration process by meeting Nokia's priorities of speed, business continuity and keeping full control of our workloads to improve support for Nokia customers across 130+ countries.”
