Google and Verizon take big steps in the cloud
March 7, 2014
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Bulter.
Google and Verizon each made announcements this week that are significant in their race to catch the company many consider to still be the market leader in the IaaS public cloud: Amazon Web Services. Google announced a robust partner program this week, including three tiers of third-party vendors who provide technical and consulting services for the company’s cloud product.
Verizon, meanwhile, further committed itself to embracing application development in its cloud with an extension of its previously announced partnerships with CloudBees and CloudFoundry. Through its venture arm, Verizon committed a monetary investment to PaaS provider CloudBees. The moves show how some of AWS’s competitors hope to compete in this market, and highlight the different approaches IaaS vendors are taking…
Google’s partnership news is particularly significant because so many enterprise customers use a consultant or a partner to execute a cloud strategy. Technology Business Research recently reported that almost three-quarters of cloud users of large businesses worked with a consultant to strategize or provide technical support in a cloud deployment. Google this week released a website listing more than 100 service and technical partners that are certified to provide services on Google’s cloud. AWS already has a robust partner network, and Google is looking to build up the same…
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