Google partners with VMware to bring virtualization workloads to its public cloud

Google LLC is partnering with VMware Inc. to make it easier for enterprises to run that company’s virtualization workloads on its public cloud infrastructure.The aim of the partnership revealed today, first reported by Bloomberg, is to help companies run VMware’s vSphere virtualization software and networking tools on Google Cloud Platform more easily. To do so, Google’s cloud will now support VMware Cloud Foundation, which is a system for deploying and running hybrid clouds.The service is being offered by a third-party provider called CloudSimple Inc. With the service, CloudSimple will help companies migrate their VMware workloads to a VMware software-defined data center running in Google’s cloud, providing full, native access to other VMware tools including NSX-T, vCenter and vSan.