IBM is expanding its collaboration with Google Cloud to bring together AI capabilities from both companies.
According to both companies, rather than forcing a single path, this creates a more open, secure, and flexible foundation for hybrid cloud and AI transformation. It also aims to make it easier for clients to connect data, models, infrastructure, and operations across environments.
Capabilities available now include:
- IBM watsonx.data is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace enabling enterprises to manage real-time, unstructured, and multimodal data for AI at scale.
- HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise, Vault, and Consul are available in the Google Cloud Marketplace to help clients secure, automate, and orchestrate cloud services and workloads.
- Confluent Cloud, the fully managed Apache Kafka service, is available on Google Cloud Marketplace allowing customers to build next-gen data architectures with real-time, contextual data.
- Red Hat OpenShift, including Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, is now accessible directly through the Google Cloud Console and available on Google Cloud Marketplace. For customers using both virtual machines (VMs) and containers, this simplifies onboarding, provides unified billing, and the ability for customers to apply their committed Google Cloud spend. Engineering teams have validated Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux at Google Cloud scale, giving clients a stable hybrid foundation for modern workloads.
- Red Hat Lightspeed Agent for Google Cloud is extending developer productivity across environments and complementing ongoing joint work in infrastructure automation management.
IBM and Google Cloud are working to integrate Google’s AI solutions, including Gemini models and Gemini Enterprise, with key areas of IBM’s software solution portfolio, bringing the best of both companies to bear for our joint clients.
IBM and Google are jointly working to further ease client operational complexity through native integration of HashiCorp Terraform within Google Cloud Infrastructure Manager to automate, standardize, and securely manage infrastructure.
Select IBM products and services are being designed for Google Cloud and made available through the Google Cloud Marketplace, helping clients make the most of their committed cloud spend.
By combining IBM’s hybrid cloud and AI platforms, Google Cloud’s AI infrastructure and model capabilities, and Red Hat’s cloud-native foundation, the joint companies can help remove the friction that slows down AI adoption and multi-cloud modernization by giving clients a clearer path to the impact they’re ultimately trying to achieve, IBM said.
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