Google Cloud compete directly with VMware Cloud on AWS with CloudSimple deal

Google recently fired a shot across the bow of VMware Cloud on AWS with its deal to buy CloudSimple, which enables VMware customers to move their workloads to the public cloud.

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"Through our existing partnership with CloudSimple, our customers can migrate their VMware workloads from on-premises datacenters directly into Google Cloud VMware Solution by CloudSimple, while also creating new VMware workloads as needed," said Rich Sanzi, vice president of engineering for Google, in a blog post. "Their apps can run exactly the same as they have been on-premises, but with all the benefits of the cloud, like performance, elasticity, and integration with key cloud services and technologies.

"We believe in a multi-cloud world, and will continue to provide choice for our customers to use the best technology in their journey to the cloud."

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CloudSimple CEO Guru Pangal said "The CloudSimple platform transforms bare-metal resources in public cloud data centres into 'as-a-service' private clouds which can be fast-provisioned in an automated fashion," Pangal said in a blog post. "These private clouds are managed through a single portal, enabling customers to easily access all the public cloud services while benefiting from scalable monitoring, alerting, fault tolerance and 24x7 global support of their private clouds. 

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"We were very fortunate to have great partnerships with VMware, Google and Microsoft, and learnt in the process 'how to dance amongst the elephants!'"