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Intel and Google Cloud Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Hybrid Cloud
Intel and Google Cloud to Develop Anthos Reference Design to Simplify Deployment Across On-Premise Data Centers and the CloudSAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

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[{"type":"text","content":"Intel and Google Cloud to Develop Anthos Reference Design to Simplify Deployment Across On-Premise Data Centers and the CloudSAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GOOGLE CLOUD NEXT — Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and Google Cloud (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced a strategic partnership aimed at helping enterprise customers seamlessly deploy applications across on-premise and cloud environments. The two companies will collaborate on Anthos, a new reference design based on the 2nd-Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor and an optimized Kubernetes software stack that will deliver increased workload portability to customers who want to take advantage of hybrid cloud environments. Intel will publish the production design as an Intel Select Solution, as well as a developer platform.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190409005821/en/Navin Shenoy, Intel executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group, displays a wafer containing Intel Xeon processors during a keynote on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. In San Francisco on April 2, Intel Corporation introduces a portfolio of data-centric tools to help its customers extract more value from their data. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)While organizations are embracing multi-cloud solutions to fuel their businesses, many companies remain challenged to find the right hybrid cloud solutions that enable seamless workload migration across clouds. The new Anthos reference design will address this challenge by delivering a stack optimized for workload portability, enabling deployment of applications across on-premise data centers and public cloud provider services.More:Data-Centric Innovation at Intel | We're Stepping on the Gas Pedal for Hybrid Cloud (Lisa Spelman Blog)\"Google and Intel enjoy a long-standing partnership focused on delivering infrastructure innovation to customers,\" said Urs Hölzle, senior vice president of Technical Infrastructure at Google Cloud. \"Data center environments today are complex, and hardware and software infrastructure is not ‘one size fits all.' Our ability to collaborate with Intel and take advantage of their technology and product innovation to deliver Anthos solutions ensures that our customers can run their applications in the way that best suits them.\"\"Our collaborati...