Cisco and Google Partner on New Hybrid Cloud Solution

Cisco and Google Cloud announced a partnership to deliver a hybrid cloud solution that helps customers maximize their investments across cloud and on-premises environments. The companies will provide an open hybrid cloud offering that enables applications and services to be deployed, managed, and secured across on-premises environments and Google Cloud Platform. The solution delivers cloud speed and scale, with enterprise-class security.

The offering provides enterprises with a way to run, secure, and monitor workloads, thus helping 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.

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 securely access cloud APIs, and cloud developers can securely access enterprise APIs and on-premises resources.

Cisco and Google Cloud hybrid solution highlights:

• Orchestration and Management - Policy-based Kubernetes orchestration and lifecycle management of resources, applications and services across hybrid environments

• Networking - Extend network policy and configurations to multiple on-premises and cloud environments

• Security - Extend Security policy and monitor applications behavior

• Visibility and Control - Real-time network and application performance monitoring and automation

• Cloud-ready Infrastructure - Hyperconverged platform supporting existing application and cloud-native Kubernetes environments

• Service Management with Istio - Open-source solution provides a uniform way to connect, secure, manage and monitor microservices

• API Management - Google's Apigee enterprise-class API management enables legacy workloads running on premises to connect to the cloud through APIs

• Developer Ready - Cisco's DevNet Developer Center provides tools and resources for cloud and enterprise developers to code in hybrid environments

• Support - Joint coordinated technical support for the solution

   

The solution will be available to a limited number of customers during the first part of 2018, with planned general availability later in the year.