ROHITH RAMKUMAR: Welcome, everyone.
For our session today, I'm going to talk
about what we've been working on in Google networking
to increase speed, reliability, the locations you can connect
to us, and, of course, how to manage those connections.
We'll also cover our recently announced partnership
with Cisco bringing together SD-WAN
and the best of GCP cloud.
Starting with our dedicated Interconnect product
at Next 2019 last year, we announced beta availability
for the 100 gigabit per second dedicated Interconnect.
Since then, it's become generally available.
100 gigabits per second dedicated Interconnect
provides 10 times the capacity of our previous Interconnect
offering and can be combined into link aggregation groups
to bring massive amounts of bandwidth.
With 100 gigabit per second dedicated Interconnect,
you can scale your connection capacity
to meet your particular requirements,
connect up to 800 gig transport circuits
for private cloud traffic to Google Cloud
at any of our POPs.
We're also working on increasing packet per second performance
and making it easier to achieve high SLA configurations.
There will be more news on this later this year.
Although Google already has enormous footprint,
we want to make it easier and less expensive than ever
for customers to connect to GCP globally.
So we're aiming to bring Interconnect
to over 30 more locations worldwide by mid next year.
When we're done with the expansion program,
we will have brought the number of locations
you can connect to GCP to well over 100,
adding 50% more locations in key places,
like Houston, Boston, Berlin, Canberra,
and multiple locations in Asia and the Middle East.
Finding a suitable location for you to connect to Google
is made easier through our extensive partner ecosystem.
You can now find the optimum connectivity pathway
to Google Cloud platform from any on-net building or data
center worldwide on the new Cloud Pathfinder
app for Google Cloud provided by [? Cloudseek. ?]
By enabling customers like you with an app,
like Cloud Pathfinder for Google Cloud,
we've provided a search-based interface
to make it easy to identify which partners can provide
Interconnect connectivity at points closest to you
on-prem to GCP.
The app is available from all mobile devices or your desktop.
You can access the app for free now via find.cloud/google.
Moving onto our Cloud VPN product,
if your needs are to securely connect everywhere,
you can use GCP's Cloud VPN.
Our newest offering, High Availability VPN,
became generally available in Q4 of last year.
With HA VPN, you can connect to your on-premises GCP
or other cloud environments with an industry-leading SLA
of four nines catered for your mission-critical workloads.
With redundant tunnel pairs, the extra nine
takes you from eight hours and 46 minutes of allowed downtime
per year to just 53 minutes.
That's a 90% reduction in allowed downtime.
We're encouraging customers to migrate their deployments
from classic to HA VPN to achieve
a more reliable architecture.
We've briefly covered Google's network and the work
we've done to expand the locations to connect
increasing the speed and making your connections
secure and available.
Now, we'd like to zoom out a bit and talk about not
just connecting to GCP, but the ability
to connect to places outside of GCP using Google's backbone.
And we're doing this initially in partnership with Cisco.
Here's a little video that shares a little bit more
about the partnership we've been working on with Cisco.
- The network is the foundation of hybrid and multi-cloud
business transformation.
You need a turnkey solution to securely bridge applications
to networks across multiple clouds,
modernize your enterprise, and reduce networking complexity
with the best of Cisco and Google Cloud.
Our joint solution will automatically
provision a reliable global network that
grows with your needs, experience
simple and flexible customer network access,
publish all of your services in one place,
and seamlessly extend and tend to enterprise applications,
deliver context aware and identity-based security
management, realize a fully software-defined
end-to-end network.
Get to know Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Hub with Google Cloud.
ROHITH RAMKUMAR: So what we know is
that customers are increasingly moving into the realities
of a multi-cloud world.
Many surveys of Enterprise customers
suggest that enterprises are deploying their applications
increasingly across multiple clouds.
We believe that this is the enterprise modernization
and digital transformation journey.
And it starts with the network which
must enable agile access to innovation promised by cloud,
as well as simplified models for multi-cloud, multi-platform
deployments.
The network must evolve to provide agility, simplicity,
and openness that is needed to power this transformation.
To summarize, what we're seeing is enterprises that are broadly
looking to create, connect, and consume resources
across a number of different environments,
creating them, leveraging the best in-class technologies,
connecting them from a single point,
and consuming them on demand, including
the connectivity between them.
When deployments span multiple app environments,
enterprises need to maintain a fairly precise set of controls.
The joint solution from Cisco and Google
addresses exactly these needs, bringing the best of SD-WAN
together with the intelligence of cloud in order
to enhance application performance
and end user experience.
What we're continuing to see is a shift
from monolithic architectures of legacy apps
on private on-prem datacenter environments
to a microservices architecture that are
deployed in and across clouds.
We're also seeing an increase in the use of top tier SaaS
applications becoming more central to maintaining
enterprise productivity.
The use of SD-WAN in concert with cloud network
and intelligence across these environments
means that corporate policies and security postures
can be maintained even as the application delivery
footprint changes.
To further joint interest, Google and Cisco
are expanding our partnership through a unique solution
called Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Hub with Google Cloud.
We will enable 200,000 enterprises
to access the power of Cisco's SD-WAN solution
extending it to GCP's cloud while powering connectivity
over Google's network, supporting new capabilities
such as allowing enterprises to use Google's global network as
if it were their own.
We've seen a number of publications
already begin to detail the power and potential
of the cloud hub solution, as Cisco and Google integrate
SD-WAN and cloud to deliver a unique value to customers.
A few of those publications and quotes
have been shared on the slide.
At a high level, with the cloud hub solution,
enterprises can continue to deploy their Cisco SD-WAN
footprint on-prem and via the Cisco vManage solution extended
to, through, and within GCP leveraging Google's network
to enhance connectivity to things like their VPC
environment, third-party SaaS services, and solutions
and other clouds.
Here, we see three major pillars of benefits for the cloud hub
solution related to flexibility and simplicity, improved end
user experience, and risk and compliance management.
With the cloud hub solution, connectivity
from on-prem to the cloud hub is provisioned
in an automated fashion via Cisco's vManaged controller
while capacity to the cloud hub is provided on demand as well
as beyond the cloud hub and how the cloud
hub accesses resources that sit on cloud and beyond.
Cisco Cloud Hub essentially enables
elastic and dynamic consumption of bandwidth
over Google's network.
With service directory, applications
can then be listed and have its metadata shared with the SD-WAN
fabric so that the appropriate delivery treatment can
be provided via the SD-WAN for each application specifically.
Also, from a security perspective,
Cisco and Google share the user context
to enhance the ability for the SD-WAN
to maintain the appropriate levels of access
to cloud apps and services.
For example, sharing such context
would allow access to be blocked for a user connected
to a guest network within a corporate environment
while accepting access to apps running on cloud
for legitimate corporate users.
Going into the solution component specifically,
Cisco establishes a presence in Google
at the relevant regions based on the customer's deployment
needs.
From there, the cloud hub solution
can leverage Google's network to connect to other cloud hubs
to enable transit and hybrid connectivity.
But cloud hubs will also be able to access the customer's VPC
environments and various applications and services that
are relevant to the customer.
Speaking of applications and services,
enterprises can leverage service directory through cloud hub
in order to access a catalog and publish
a list of apps and their properties,
like the need for low latency transmission to the end user.
From here, Cisco's vManage retrieves
this information shared via metadata on a per application
basis and then enables the cloud hubs
to take the appropriate traffic steering decisions
based on what's required for a given application.
Lastly with the Cisco Cloud Hub and Google Cloud SD-WAN,
they shared contextual access to corporate user and app identity
to be able to provide enhanced access to the most
secure segments of the enterprise network
to better manage risk and maintain compliance.
To summarize, Google and Cisco are
in a strategic collaboration to build
what we believe will be the industry's
first application-centric multi-cloud fabric.
We believe this will help change the model by which enterprises
choose to connect to the resources that
matter to them the most.
In this solution, Google provides reliable connectivity
over its network bridging the enterprise network
to cloud applications and services on GCP and beyond.
Thank you.