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Google makes it easier to migrate VMware environments to its cloud - TechCrunch Posted: 14 May 2020 09:43 AM PDT 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 VMware Cloud Foundation stack on Google Cloud to help businesses easily migrate their existing VMware-based environments to Google's infrastructure. Cloud Foundation is VMware's stack for hybrid and private cloud deployments. Given Google Cloud's focus on enterprise customers, it's no surprise that the company continues to bet on partnerships with the likes of VMware to attract more of these companies' workloads. Less than a year ago, Google announced that VMware Cloud Foundation would come to Google Cloud and that it would start supporting VMware workloads. Then, last November, Google Cloud acquired CloudSimple, a company that specialized in running VMware environments and that Google had already partnered with for its original VMware deployments. The company describes today's announcement as the third step in this journey. VMware Engine provides users with all of the standard Cloud Foundation components: vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX-T and HCX. With this, Google Cloud General Manager June Yang notes in today's announcement, businesses can quickly stand up their own software-defined data center in the Google Cloud. "Google Cloud VMware Engine is designed to minimize your operational burden, so you can focus on your business," she notes. "We take care of the lifecycle of the VMware software stack and manage all related infrastructure and upgrades. Customers can continue to leverage IT management tools and third-party services consistent with their on-premises environment." Google is also working with third-party providers like NetApp, Veeam, Zerto, Cohesity and Dell Technologies to ensure that their solutions work on Google's platform, too. "As customers look to simplify their cloud migration journey, we're committed to build cloud services to help customers benefit from the increased agility and efficiency of running VMware workloads on Google Cloud," said Bob Black, Dell Technologies Global Lead Alliance Principal at Deloitte Consulting. "By combining Google Cloud's technology and Deloitte's business transformation experience, we can enable our joint customers to accelerate their cloud migration, unify operations, and benefit from innovative Google Cloud services as they look to modernize applications."

Google Cloud Q1 Revenue Grows 52%, Outpacing Microsoft and Amazon - Cloud Wars Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:00 AM PDT Sparked by strong demand for IaaS, analytics and industry-specific solutions, Google Cloud Q1 revenue surged 52% in Q1 as its growth rate again came in significantly higher than much-larger competitors Microsoft and Amazon's AWS. Google Cloud posted Q1 revenue of $2.8 billion, following its equally strong Q4 figure of $2.6 billion, up 53%. The Q1 growth rate of 52% for Google Cloud is particularly impressive in light of the global economic slowdown triggered in early March by the COVID-19 pandemic. Google Cloud vs. Microsoft and Amazon Over the past four quarters, Microsoft's enterprise-cloud business has produced the following revenue-growth figures, starting with the 3 months ended Dec. 31, 2019, and going backward: 41%, 39%, 42%, and 43%. For the same four quarters, Amazon's AWS cloud unit posted these growth rates: 37%, 42%, 46%, and 46%. Again, I will emphasize that while Google Cloud's growth rate is higher, its revenue base is much lower than that for Microsoft and for Amazon. While Google Cloud's Q1 revenue was $2.8 billion, Microsoft later today will release earnings results showing that its cloud revenue is at least 4X and possibly closer to 5X higher than that, probably coming in between $12 billion and $13 billion. And tomorrow, when Amazon releases its Q1 numbers, AWS will likely show revenue of more than $9 billion and possibly closer to $10 billion, making it about 3.5X larger than Google Cloud. But at least for the time being, Google Cloud is the high-flyer across the entire Cloud Wars Top 10. To offer one other comparison, IBM's cloud business, which is about 2X larger than Google's, grew at 23% in Q1.

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