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Google and Cisco team up on cloud

by on26 October 2017


Kubernetes and Istio service mesh

Google and Cisco have teamed up on the hybrid cloud.

The partnership is based around the Google-incubated Kubernetes container orchestration tool, and the Istio service mesh for connecting and securing microservices across clouds.

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene said that Google Cloud and Cisco were committed to meeting customers wherever they are in their journey to the cloud.

“This partnership enables developers and IT departments to seamlessly take advantage of the most open, secure tools for building modern applications in a hybrid environment.”

The companies were vague about what the combined solution will look like, saying only that it would bring the power of the cloud to their customers’ on-premise environments.

Both said that multi-cloud solution for enterprises must include support for the security, configuration and policy requirements of enterprises, and the ability to get real-time networking and performance data.

Google said that Apigee, the API management company it acquired last year will allow legacy workloads to connect to the more modern applications that developers will bring to this solution.

Cisco will optimise Kubernetes for its data centre tools and to allow its users to use its existing services in concert with this new solution. Teams from both companies already spent the last few months working on the tech behind this new partnership and the plan is to roll it out to a limited number of customers in the first part of next year, with general availability planned for the second half of 2018.

It is starting to look like Google is getting a handle on what to do with Kubernetes starting with deals with large enterprise organizations like Cisco.

 

Last modified on 26 October 2017
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