MuleSoft LLC is giving enterprises more choice of where they run its software.

The Salesforce.com Inc. subsidiary today revealed plans to make its Anypoint Runtime Fabric available on Google Cloud and said it’s adding a connector for the search giant’s BigQuery data warehouse. Anypoint Runtime Fabric is the linchpin of MuleSoft’s flagship Anypoint Platform, a toolkit for managing the application programming interfaces through which enterprise workloads communicate with the outside world.

API administration has a lot of moving pieces. An organization needs to ensure that its workloads’ programming interfaces are working reliably, while balancing other priorities such as blocking malicious access attempts. Anypoint Platform provides a set of tools that simplify the task for companies with dozens or more APIs. 

Among these tools, the Anypoint Runtime Fabric at the center of today’s announcement serves as the management system, allowing information technology teams to run their API operations on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and now, Google Cloud as well. MuleSoft said support for the latter platform will roll out to customers in 2020.

The integration is set to be preceded by the release of a BigQuery connector before the end of this year. BigQuery is a managed data warehouse on Google Cloud designed to analyze large amounts of raw information for useful insights. The upcoming connector will provide a way for enterprises to pull records from their MuleSoft-managed applications through their APIs, then stream those records to Google Cloud for processing.

A growing number of companies are entrusting their analytics workloads to the search giant and the industry’s other major infrastructure-as-a-service providers. It’s part of a broader shift that International Data Corp. estimates will lead to public cloud spending increasing from $229 billion this year to nearly $500 billion in 2023.

MuleSoft is just one of several API management providers working to capitalize on the trend. The Salesforce subsidiary competes, among others, with none other than Google LLC itself, which joined the market in 2016 by acquiring Apigee Inc. for $625 million. MuleSoft became part of Salesforce two years later through a $6.5 billion cash and stock acquisition.

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