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Get Migrating In 2023: Join Our Upcoming Fireside Chat Featuring Forrester

You probably already know that cloud migration continues to be a huge priority for organizations across the globe. But what may surprise you is all the ways priorities, projects, and outcomes have changed in the last few years. For example, in 2020, the thing that was most top of mind was identifying the best-fit workloads to run in the public cloud. But what about now? To answer that question (and more) we’re hosting a free ‘fireside chat’ on January 31st at 9:00AM PST where our guest Bill Martorelli, Principal Analyst at Forrester, and Priyanka Vergadia, Staff Developer Advocate at Google…
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How Google Cloud And Partners Can Accelerate Your Migration Success

As enterprises accelerate their migration to the cloud, they experience more notable mid- and late-phase migration challenges. Specifically, 41% face challenges when optimizing apps in the cloud post-migration, and 38% struggle with performance issues on workloads migrated to the cloud. Further, organizations have also increased reliance on outside consultants and other service providers for early-stage cloud migration tasks to ongoing management post-implementation.1 To help customers through these challenges with a simple, quick path to a successful cloud migration, Google Cloud created our comprehensive Rapid Assessment & Migration Program (RAMP). And we’ve got some exciting developments to share with our customers…
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4 New Ways Citrix & Google Cloud Can Simplify Your Cloud Migration

Citrix and Google Cloud empower organizations to securely deliver the apps and data people need to be as productive as possible — across a wide range of work locations and device types. Now, our growing partnership has something new to offer: a secure, flexible, and cost-effective desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) that scales up and down both quickly and intuitively. Given that 90 percent of organizations are planning to adopt hybrid work this year, the timing couldn’t be better.1 Citrix and Google Cloud have delivered on the first steps of our joint DaaS roadmap — making it easier for organizations with Citrix VDI…
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Is A Cloud Migration On Your To Do List? Our Top Stories From 2021 Can Help

2022 is officially upon us, and while 2021 had its fair share of challenges, we continue to be impressed by the technology investments made by our customers and partners and their ongoing migration of legacy systems to the cloud. Before diving into 2022, we thought it would be fun to do a quick roundup of 2021’s ’greatest migration hits’ first. Fast and easy migration to Google Cloud The most common theme we saw in 2021 was our customers migrating to Google Cloud faster and easier than they thought possible. Migrations are rarely a “one size fits all” project, but with…
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Cloud Security Podcast By Google Turns 46 – Reflections And Lessons!

Time flies when you’re having fun! We’ve produced 46 episodes of the Cloud Security Podcast by Google since our launch in February 2021. Looking back, we’d like to share some cloud security lessons and insights we picked up along the way.   Over the course of 2021, the following themes emerged as the most popular with our audience. Zero trust security Cloud threat detection Making Cloud migrations more secure Data security in the cloud Let’s explore each of these while highlighting some of the more interesting episodes: Zero trust On the zero trust side, we had a great episode  where…
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Cloud Migration Plans Surge Despite Security Concerns

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world’s digital infrastructure company™, has found there has been a significant year-on-year leap in companies planning to move business-critical applications to the cloud, despite cybersecurity concerns. The need to remain competitive and cater to increased user demands has prompted a 15% jump to 37% of companies saying they plan to move business-critical applications to the cloud in 2020-21, compared to the previous year. As digital leaders build robust digital infrastructures to ensure future success, it is estimated that almost half (47%) of their IT infrastructure globally is now on the cloud, despite ongoing concerns over cloud security. These…
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Google Cloud Migration Made Easy

At Google Cloud, we believe that effective integration of public cloud capabilities is fundamental to an enterprise’s digital transformation journey. A well-designed digital transformation strategy should do much more than keep you competitive… instead, it should position you to excel by untethering IT staff from low value, labor-intensive tasks, allowing them to focus on innovation and high-impact projects. In most cases migration to cloud is the first step to digital transformation because it offers a quick, simple path to cost savings and enhanced flexibility. In this article we’ll focus on migration of on-premise or public cloud hosted infrastructure into Google…
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Cloud Migration: What You Need To Know (And Where To Find It)

Migrating to the cloud for an enterprise that has been running workloads on premises for years can be very daunting. To be successful, a migration plan needs to factor in many different aspects relating to people, process and technology. If you are designing the migration, you need guidance and best practices to help steer you through this process. Building on our experience as solutions architects, we have put together a comprehensive set of documents for IT practitioners who are planning, designing, and implementing a migration to Google Cloud. At our Migration to Google Cloud page, you’ll find extensive technical information and advice…
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Google Cloud VMware Engine Explained: Migrating Your vSphere VMs

Migrating your resources and workloads to a cloud platform can seem daunting at first—particularly in a traditional VMware environment. In a previous blog, we showed how to provision networking and connectivity so you can run VMware Cloud Foundation natively on Google Cloud VMware Engine. In this installment, we discuss some additional strategies for migrating to the cloud with Google Cloud VMware Engine. Migration challenges When moving from on-premises to the cloud, one of the first things that many would-be migrators worry about is incompatibilities between the compute, storage, and networking technologies in the cloud platform versus on-prem. For example: Does the…
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