Google Cloud Platform Program Shows Drive To Take Business From IT Giants
Google has a new cloud partner program that shows the company’s drive to go after old IT. In a blog post today, Google provided some details about it with a link to a list of the technology and service providers that are part of the program. It’s a short list but here’s what they are offering. Service providers deliver consulting services for the various Google Platform Cloud products. This would include the new Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Google Cloud Storage, Google Big Query and its prediction and translation APIs. Technology partners provide integrations with Google Platform Cloud or use one of its services as a foundation for their products. Google is hinting that it will use its partner program to pursue customers who want to migrate off legacy solutions. According to the Google blog post: For example, Orangescape Technologies, one of our partners, integrated Google App Engine as part of their platform to help United Biscuits, a leading manufacturer of biscuits an...