VMware announced a new partnership with Google that will allow Google Cloud Platform services to run on VMware’s vCloud Air.

This means that existing vCloud Air customers will now have access to the Google Cloud Platform under their existing service contract with vCloud Air.  There will be additional fees for usage vCloud Air customer will pay for  the Google Cloud Platform services they end up using.  Logistically speaking vCloud Air customers can have both vCloud Air and Google Cloud Platform services under a single hybrid cloud environment with VMware backing.

According to VMware blog post, both companies reached an agreement to integrate selected Google Cloud Platform services into vCloud Air.

• Google Cloud Storage– Distributed low-cost object storage service
• Google BigQuery – A real-time analytics service suitable for ad-hoc business intelligence queries across billions of rows of data in seconds
• Google Cloud Datastore– A schemaless NoSQL database service
• Google Cloud DNS– A globally-distributed low-latency DNS service

VMware vCloud Air customers get access to more services on vCloud Air that complement what VMware offers today. When we ran the VMworld 2014 application on vCloud Air we were able to rapidly scale to meet demand, and we also generated millions of data points on application usage. We needed a way to quickly analyze that and ask “what if?” questions. BigQuery is a great way to quickly store and analyze that data, but it’s tough to use if it isn’t integrated with vCloud Air.

VMware has had great success expanding their market presence in defending their enterprise leadership and with Google customers get best of both worlds – seasoned corporate partner in VMware and access to cutting edge cloud technology with great developer traction in Google.

Google Is Winning The Developers – VMware Owns The Enterprise

Google has been aggressive in bringing their expertise of the cloud to the market focusing on developers not so much the corporate enterprise like AWS has.  Google has learned to “meet developers where they are,” with the end goal of making it easier for developers to build high-quality, high-performance cloud applications, said Greg DeMichillie, director of Product Management at Google Cloud Platform, at the Google Cloud Platform Live event. With both App Engine and Kubernetes, Google has placed a high premium on making sure developers can “color outside the lines” when they want to.

It’s counterproductive to stay in an “ivory tower” when it comes to building cloud applications. “You have to be in the pubs, in the streets,” DeMichillie said, and by engaging with developers, Google seeks to build a product that it can use easily and effectively.

He also said that Kubernetes is a breakthrough because both developers and IT professionals support it. DeMichillie anticipates much faster adoption, though the curve is already steeper than any other cloud technology that he’s seen. He attributes Kubernetes’ popularity to its functionality, which gives developers more flexibility in terms of how and where they can build applications.

When discussing how far the cloud has already come, DeMichillie commented, “The one thing we know for certain is five years from now, when we look back at the state of cloud today, we’ll laugh.” Google expects the cloud it to evolve quickly and drastically. It’s why Google is “trying to innovate at all levels of the stack.”

Even large enterprise IT is trying to break into Web-scale technology, he explained. The enterprise is tying to be agile and take advantage of new trends that will add value to the business. DeMichillie pointed to the rising adoption of SaaS products and containerization as evidence of that overall trend.

Another great interview is with Craig McLuckie who is one of main players of Google product management execs.  Containers and Kubernetes are key for developers.  Google is trying to position itself as the linchpin for the multi-cloud enterprise environments of the future, a strategy that will presumably see it add monitoring support for even more competing platforms. It’s also likely that Google will introduce additional provider-agnostic solutions as part of that effort, VMware deal is great sign for #hybridcloud.

VMware Inc.’s recent move to embrace Docker, which is considered one of the single greatest threats to its proprietary brand of server virtualization, was the equally significant announcement of a partnership announced at VMworld 2014 with Google to provide support for the search giant’s Kubernetes initiative.

The open-source project relies on the Docker container engine for application delivery. It has gained considerable traction since hitting the scene just a few months ago. That got the hypervisor maker’s attention.

But there’s much more to the alliance than just two big-name vendors converging around the latest common denominator, according to Google Compute Engine (GCE) Product Manager Craig McLuckie. The collaboration  paves a path for the search titan to extend its cloud presence into the traditional data center

See lots of Google cloud leaders entire interview below, and watch all archived clips from the event onSiliconANGLE’s YouTube Channel here.