VMware announced the company received the 2021 Google
Cloud Technology Partner of the Year Award for Infrastructure
Modernization. VMware was recognized for its achievements as part of the
Google Cloud ecosystem for helping mutual customers accelerate their
enterprise cloud transformation. VMware and Google Cloud together are
empowering customers across industries such as retail, telco, and
manufacturing to accelerate cloud modernization initiatives for
enterprise applications with Google Cloud VMware Engine.
"Organizations
globally are benefitting from the close collaboration of VMware and
Google Cloud as we help customers accelerate their cloud-first business
strategies," said Gregory Lehrer, vice president, hyperscaler
partnerships, VMware. "This recognition from Google Cloud is a testament
to our shared focus on delivering the best business outcomes for our
customers by helping them modernize applications, workloads,
infrastructure, and consumption models with Google Cloud VMware Engine."
"This
award recognizes VMware's commitment to customer success, and its
delivery of innovative and impactful solutions on Google Cloud in
Infrastructure Modernization," said Bronwyn Hastings, VP of Global ISV
Partnerships and Channels, Google Cloud. "We're proud to recognize
VMware as our Technology Partner of the Year for Infrastructure
Modernization, and we look forward to continuing our work together
building and creating business value for customers with cloud
technologies."
Google
Cloud VMware Engine enables customers to modernize infrastructure,
operations and applications with lower costs and risks. This
jointly-developed, Google Cloud-delivered service offers customers
flexible on-demand capacity and full operational consistency with
existing on-premises VMware environments, allowing customers to harness
the power of Google Cloud. With Google Cloud VMware Engine now available
as part of the VMware Cloud Universal program, VMware and VMware
partners can offer Google Cloud VMware Engine along with other VMware
Cross-Cloud services to enable customers to execute their digital
transformation initiatives based on their timelines, with lower overall
costs and risk. With Google Cloud VMware Engine combined with VMware
Cloud Universal, enterprises can achieve:
- Average TCO savings of 38% over three years compared to on-premises environments
- Average yearly cost savings of more than $2M
- Average labor savings of $115K using existing VMware and Google Cloud tools
- 100 Gbps dedicated east-west networking and high availability with a 99.99% uptime service level agreement for a cluster