Google, VMware Partnership Extends Hybrid Cloud Reach

Google Cloud has expanded its strategic partnership with VMware to push further into hybrid clouds.The two companies on Tuesday announced Google Cloud VMware Solution by CloudSimple, a service that lets organizations run VMware workloads in Google Cloud Platform on premises, in a hybrid architecture, or in the cloud."Hybrid clouds are key, with only 17-19 percent of workloads in the cloud," noted Ray Wang, principal analyst at Constellation Research.The multi-cloud approach is "hot, because of the need to put storage in one place, tools in another, and artificial intelligence and machine learning still somewhere else to optimize compute time and cost while avoiding vendor lock-in," he told the E-Commerce Times.