Google Cloud doubled down on integrations with the likes of ServiceNow, GitLab and MongoDB, while also forming tighter partnerships with giant channel partners Accenture and HCLTech to accelerate migration to Google Cloud.
At Google Cloud Next 2022 this week, the cloud giant unveiled a slew of technology enhancements and channel partnerships with the goal of driving more sales and becoming the world’s most open cloud platform.
Additionally, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company has launched dozens of new Google products and services in Google Cloud Next around artificial intelligence (AI), Google Workspace and BigQuery, to name a few.
Google Cloud also explained to CRN that a merger with cybersecurity company Mandiant is in full swing.
The Google cloud unit is working to increase its global cloud market share which currently stands at around 10 percent worldwide, according to market data from Synergy Research Group, trailing Microsoft Azure at 21 percent share and Amazon Web Services at 34 percent share.
Google Cloud plans to increase its market share by having the world’s most open cloud platform, the best cloud cybersecurity portfolio, and driving sales through a partner-centric go-to-market strategy with 100 percent partner attach rate, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian told CRN this year.
Google Cloud’s revenue has been growing rapidly this year. The company generated nearly $6.3 billion in sales during its second quarter 2022, representing a revenue increase of 36 percent year over year.
With the new technology and channel partnerships announced at Google Cloud Next, Kurian is looking to fulfill his hopes of climbing the cloud market share ranks.
CRN breaks down the five biggest new partnerships that Google Cloud announced at Google Cloud Next 2022 including Accenture, ServiceNow, GitLab, HCLTech and MongoDB.
ServiceNow Plus BigQuery
ServiceNow integrates its Flow Designer and App Engine with Google Cloud’s BigQuery.
The new partnership will help customers more easily connect to datasets available in Google Cloud and build new workflows to perform actions on real-time data coming from BigQuery.
The collaboration of ServiceNow technology with Google Cloud will allow developers and business analysts to use the direct connection to BigQuery and build solutions that combine their first-party data with external datasets.
“This integration enhances a variety of use cases across the enterprise, including IT asset management, customer service management, and order management,” said Gerrit Kazmaier, vice president and general manager of Data Analytics for Google. Cloud in a blog post.
ServiceNow’s Flow Designer offering allows process owners to use natural language to automate approvals, tasks, notifications, and recording operations without coding. App Engine empowers businesses around enterprise-class low-code application delivery with intuitive and intelligent experiences.
BigQuery is a managed enterprise data warehouse service that helps customers manage and analyze data using built-in features such as machine learning, geospatial analysis, and business intelligence.
HCLTech To Drive Migration To Google Cloud; Practice 18,000
Google Cloud is doubling down on its partnership with solutions provider giant HCLTech with new service offerings to accelerate enterprise migration to Google Cloud.
The partnership will enable two new offerings to help enterprise customers migrate to Google Cloud faster and get value from their cloud investments sooner.
This week, the companies launched the new Google Cloud Global Migration and Modernization Factory, within the HCLTech Google Cloud Ecosystem Unit, which brings together experts, IP, migration frameworks and automation tools to help businesses bring critical workloads on Google Cloud faster, while improving their cybersecurity posture and ensuring regulatory compliance.
A newly dedicated HCLTech Cloud Acceleration Team will further accelerate customers’ time-to-value on Google Cloud products and solutions by providing architectural expertise and unlocking insights from enterprise data.
HCLTech will train up to 18,000 of its IT professionals on Google Cloud to significantly increase its ability to accelerate digital transformations around the world using Google Cloud solutions.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said in a statement that the enhanced partnership will provide “enterprises with the services, industry expertise and technologies they need to accelerate their cloud agendas and to create value business from Google Cloud’s capabilities in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics.”
HCLTech said it will take a Google Cloud-first approach for data, analytics and AI projects in industry segments including retail and consumer packaged goods, financial services, and healthcare and life sciences.
Accenture Doubling Down On Google Cloud
One of the world’s largest solutions providers is doubling down on Google Cloud as Accenture plans to invest more resources to help customers run cloud-first organizations through Google Cloud.
The massive 721,000-employee Accenture will expand from its 5,000 Google Cloud certifications to more than 15,000 certifications in areas including cybersecurity, application modernization, data analytics, AI, mainframe migration and sustainability.
Accenture and Google Cloud will also develop new solutions and accelerators for special industry use cases, such as sales and marketing optimization, visual inspection and customer transformation.
Additionally, Accenture’s integrated retail platform, ai.RETAIL, will be optimized with Google Cloud’s Product Discovery and Vertex AI aimed at helping customers improve consumer engagement and conversions and make their supply chain is more sustainable.
Karthik Narain, Accenture’s global lead for its Accenture Cloud First business group, said the partnership is designed to help the customer build a strong digital core using Google Cloud infrastructure and products in areas such as cybersecurity, data analytics and application modernization.
“By partnering with Google Cloud to expand talent and pre-build industry-specific, productive solutions, we will accelerate time to value for Google Cloud clients, from public to end-to-end and all in between,” Narain said in a statement.
GitLab Launches Cloud Seed To Simplify Google Cloud
GitLab is integrating more deeply into Google Cloud with the launch of Cloud Seed, a new open-source solution aimed at simplifying Google Cloud deployments and management.
Cloud Seed simplifies the developer experience for procuring and using cloud services, enabling Google Cloud customers to migrate to the cloud using a single platform.
Cloud Seed is integrated with the GitLab One DevOps platform simplifying deployment to Google Cloud Run, Google SQL database provisioning and overall Google Cloud account management. Engineers can now do this directly from the GitLab web interface.
The new open-source solution allows developers to deploy web applications directly to Google Cloud.
MongoDB Atlas Boost BigQuery Integrations
MongoDB has launched new templates to speed up businesses’ ability to move data between Atlas and Google Cloud BigQuery.
MongoDB Atlas is a managed Google Cloud infrastructure service that allows customers to manage their databases with a few clicks, while also offering features such as global clusters for low latency read and write access anywhere in the world.
The enhanced partnership will open up new use cases for customers to leverage Google Cloud’s AI and machine learning capabilities in MongoDB with Vertex AI.
Google Cloud’s Vertex AI is the company’s unified machine learning (ML) portfolio that enables customers to build, deploy and scale ML models faster with fully managed tools for any use case.
This article originally appeared on crn.com