Computacenter is considering a deal which would see that would see it using Google’s cloud.
Chief technologist Paul Casey has said that the move is part of the firm’s multi-cloud strategy in helping customers shut their datacentres and reduce the cost of their workloads.
According to Channelnomics Europe, Computacenter’s recent announcement that it will be only one of two UK partners offering VMware on AWS is part of the firm’s commitment to a multi-cloud strategy which will likely see it work with Google in the future.
“It is a matter of allowing us to do a good enough job with each of the vendors we have been focusing on before we start to bring others on.
Google would give the outfit great coverage across all the target destinations, and it allows us to differentiate from rivals
“We have the capability to take them to the different cloud providers and land them safely on the cloud provider. The key part is: we are the only partner I see that can help them shut their datacentre… Computacenter has a track record of doing this already.”
Google, along with other public cloud giants Microsoft, Amazon and Alibaba, has been aggressively expanding across Europe in the last two years. Google announced plans to build eight new datacentres in October 2016 and opened a new region in the Netherlands this year.
Casey believes that the future of the enterprise market in which Computacenter operates will see customers move to multi-cloud environments, spreading workloads across public clouds like AWS and Azure, as well as on virtualised platforms such as VMware.
