Cisco and Google Cloud today announced a partnership to deliver a hybrid cloud solution that helps customers maximize their investments across cloud and on-premises environments.
Cisco and Google Cloud will provide hybrid cloud offering that enables their enterprise customers to deploy applications and services, manage and secure across on-premises environments and Google Cloud Platform.
The hybrid cloud solution will be available to a limited number of customers during the first part of 2018, while the general availability will be later in the year.
The hybrid cloud offering provides enterprises to secure and monitor workloads, thus enabling them to optimize their existing investments, plan their cloud migration at their own pace and avoid vendor lock in. Companies can now develop new applications in the cloud or on-premises, consistently using the same developer tools, run time, and production environment.
“Our partnership with Google gives our customers the very best cloud has to offer — agility and scale, coupled with enterprise-class security and support,” said Chuck Robbins, chief executive officer, Cisco.
“This joint solution from Google and Cisco facilitates an easy and incremental approach to tapping the benefits of the Cloud. This is what we hear customers asking for,” said Diane Greene, CEO of Google Cloud.
The joint Cisco and Google Cloud hybrid solution helps developers leverage managed Kubernetes, GCP Service Catalog, Cisco networking and security, and Istio authentication and service mesh monitoring. Enterprise app developers can access cloud APIs, and cloud developers can access enterprise APIs and on-premises resources.
