Prosimo announced a
partnership with Google Cloud to help businesses modernize their Cloud
Networking infrastructure and deliver faster, more secure application
experience at the edge. The partnership will pave the way for companies
to realize the opportunity, identified by Google Cloud in December 2020, of leveraging cloud capabilities at the edge of their networks and tapping into high-speed 5G connectivity.
Interest
in managed edge services from cloud providers is growing rapidly.
According to Gartner, by year-end 2023, only 20% of installed edge
computing platforms will be delivered and managed by hyperscale cloud
providers (an increase from less than 1% in 2020). Moreover,
in the recent Gartner Market Guide for Cloud Networking Software that
recognized Prosimo, edge networking was identified as a use case. "Adoption
of cloud networking software for edge computing is a bleeding-edge use
case. Edge locations are linked to core computing resources (often
multiple cloud-based services) to form a distributed environment,
managed as a single construct. Cloud networking software can be used to
build an integrated network ‘fabric' to provide consistent end-to-end
network services and management across this environment."
Prosimo
will deliver edge networking with built in Zero Trust Security and
performance stack on Google Cloud with Anthos, and will leverage Google
Cloud capabilities like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine
learning (ML), as well as Google's and its partners' networks, closer to
the location of users and applications. With this partnership,
enterprises will have a fast and secure way to modernize their
application infrastructure and deliver better application experiences,
irrespective of where they are hosted - cloud region, edge locations or
on-prem data center.
"Businesses
like retailers, manufacturers, transportation companies and more can
benefit from cloud capabilities and low-latency access to applications
at the network edge," said Tanuj Raja, Global Head, Strategic
Partnerships at Google Cloud. "We're excited to partner with Prosimo to
deliver its capabilities in cloud networking, application performance
and security on Google Cloud to help these businesses digitize and
modernize business processes at the edge."
This partnership comes with the recent strategy announcement by
Google Cloud to bring more business applications to the edge -
highlighting, in the release, the opportunity for organizations to
modernize their processes and deliver new experiences by leveraging
cloud capabilities at the edge. With Google Cloud capabilities like
Anthos, a modern application platform for cloud-native and legacy
applications, organizations can build, deploy and optimize applications
anywhere. Moreover, they can enjoy a consistent development and
operations experience for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
The
solution from Prosimo furthers this mission by bringing the multi-cloud
networking, secure access, application performance and observability
capabilities of Prosimo AXI to customers - providing a fast a secure way
to connect users and applications to Google capabilities across hybrid,
edge and multi-cloud environments, while removing the need for legacy
networking.
"We
believe in bringing application connectivity and security as close to
the end user as possible," said Prosimo's Head of Product, Mani Ganesan.
"Our partnership with Google Cloud empowers organizations to modernize
their infrastructure and applications with core Google Cloud
capabilities that extend the value of their networks and deliver better
application experiences to more users, in more locations. Moreover, this
partnership validates our approach of bringing multi-cloud and edge
networking, security and application experience together in one
integrated stack."