Hi, everyone, I hope you enjoyed the Dev Keynote.
I'm Jeff Reed, VP of product
for Application Modernization Platform at Google Cloud.
Thank you so much for being with us here today.
In most of my conversations with customers,
I found they're accelerating their technology adoption
through the use of cloud-based services to build and deliver new capabilities
like curbside pickup and retail,
remote diagnostics in manufactory,
and completely new experiences to better support their end customers.
Today, I'm going to share some exciting announcements
that will further empower you to digitally transform your organization.
We recognize that each company has unique cloud needs.
So we Google Cloud are focused on three areas to support you in whatever stage you are
in your cloud evolution. First,
First,
we set out to make your migration or monetization path easy.
With Google Cloud, you can easily evolve your existing applications
or build new cloud native apps.
Second, our open platform extends Google Cloud services
and engineering practices to hybrid and multicloud environments
for consistent service delivery.
And third, our planet scale distributed infrastructure is transformative
and delivers the highest level of performance and availability in a secure sustainable way.
One of our primary goals is to make it easy for you to deploy
and scale and manage Kubernetes anywhere.
In the years since Google invented Kubernetes,
containers have completely revolutionized IT operations.
Given our history, it is not surprising that Google Kubernetes Engine, GKE,
is the leading solution in the market, and even Gartner agrees.
In the recent Gartner solution scorecard, GKE scored 92 out of 100,
making it the absolute strongest strategic option
among public cloud Kubernetes services
Until now, Kubernetes involved a fair amount of manual configuration.
You have to manage your own clusters, nodes, YAML files. It's a lot.
With our introduction of the GKE Autopilot,
a new mode of operation in GKE, we're making it much easier for you to use Kubernetes.
Google provisions and manages the entire clusters underlying infrastructure,
including the control plane, node pools, worker nodes
letting you and your developers focus on your software,
while GKE Autopilot manages all aspects of the infrastructure.
In the midst of the pandemic,
we saw a large number of our customers adopting serverless technologies.
And that's no surprise, since serverless technology
enables companies to rapidly develop and deploy any application
in a fully automated environment.
With services like Cloud Functions, Eventarc and Workflows,
you can easily set up event-driven serverless workflows
that connect into Google Cloud, third-party SaaS services or your own applications.
Serverless is also about running complex workloads at scale
while still preserving the delightful developer experience.
In fact, serverless with Cloud Run is about delivering a true developer platform
with the flexibility to run any language, any library, any binary.
You can bring traditional workloads such as Java Spring boot, ASP.NET
and more to serverless compute now.
Whether it's GKE Autopilot, Cloud Run or Cloud Functions,
our goal is to make it easy for you to build and scale apps,
how you want and where you want.
Our second focus area is delivering an open infrastructure cloud.
It relies on open source-based technology like Kubernetes, Istio, and Knative,
delivering the portability you expect.
It also offers you the choice and flexibility to build
and manage your apps across multiple clouds.
To realize these benefits,
Anthos operates as a Cloud-backed control plan that provides consistent development
and management at scale across both Edge, on-premise and multi-cloud environments.
It then enables you to build and manage global fleets
and establish operational consistency at scale.
Let's hear from my colleague Rae Wang,
who interviewed Jahidul Khandaker and Suraj Rao,
the CIO and global head of advanced analytics at Western Digital,
on their multi-cloud journey.
Welcome and thank you for sharing your insights with our audience.
We have been working together since 2019 on Western Digital's call transformation.
What initially prompted you to focus on modernizing applications
and standardizing software delivery across your organization?
Thank you, Rae. We are happy to be here.
As a result of various merger and acquistions,
WDC became an integration of three corporations,
HGST, WDC and SanDisk.
To support very diverse infrastructure and I.T. environments across the three entities,
switching to a cloud strategy became an imperative
for driving to a standardization.
Now Jahidul mentioned about the cloud strategy.
In 2018, we saw tremendous growth in IoT applications from our global factories
that required low latency and high-speed on-premise solutions.
However, now we have faced this daunting task of keeping our on-premise
and the cloud solutions synced.
This led to exploring solutions that provide
a uniform management plain across our hybrid environments.
After trying multiple solutions for over two years, we chose Anthos.
Anthos gives us vendor-agnostic solution that books across GCP
and on-premise environments while keeping the doors open for a multi-cloud future.
That is great to hear. Go Anthos!
So why does hybrid and multi-cloud strategy mean to Western Digital?
Surely.
Western Digital is making a pivotal strategic shift to Anthos for our big data platform.
We are migrating more than 25 business-critical applications
seamlessly to this hybrid environment with Anthos.
This move has several advantages.
A richer user experience, greater security
and enhanced flexibility to manage factory applications.
Some of these critical applications include image analysis on millions of images,
a week for factory disposition,
machine learning workloads for real-time factory decisions, and many, many others.
Thank you. That's a great strategy and some amazing use cases.
Now looking forward, what are the upcoming digital transformation goals
in the next three to five years for Western Digital.
Rae, the future at Western Digital is very exciting.
We want to deliver excellence everywhere.
Ultimately, we see cloud technology as an enabler of our key business priorities.
Reduce time to deliver services,
rationalize our application footprint, and meet customer demand for IoT
and edge applications.
Thank you, Jahidul and Suraj.
I look forward to more amazing work from this great partnership.
Thanks, Jahidul, Suraj and Rae.
Since we announced Anthos back in 2019,
we are thrilled with the reception it has received in the market.
In fact, as of Q2 2021, Anthos compute under management grew more than 500% year over year
And today we're extending Anthos' work
for even more workloads in more environments and in more locations.
We're announcing Anthos for VMs to support development teams
that want to standardize in Kubernetes,
but have existing workloads running on virtual machines
that cannot be easily containerized.
Once you shift or attach VMs directly to the Anthos environment,
you can leverage declarative configuration and policy management
with Anthos config management and in an application visibility
and security with Anthos service mesh.
We're also introducing one of my favorites, Anthos Multicloud API,
which enables you to provision and manage GKE clusters running on AWS
and azure infrastructure, through a centralized Google backed control plane
Generally available today.
The Anthos Multicloud API ensures your team has a consistent experience to create,
manage and update GKE clusters, regardless of which major public cloud you're using.
Thank you for joining us on the path to revolutionizing cloud computing.
Now I'm going to hand it over to Sachin Gupta,
VP and GM for infrastructure and long time friend,
to talk about how we're extending these innovations to your dedicated environments.
-Great. Thank you, friend. -Thanks Jeff it's great to be here in person
and it's great to see you all.
Our goal in Google Cloud is to meet you where you are in your digital transformation.
We understand some of your workloads cannot move
to the public cloud entirely due to various factors,
such as high amounts of local data processing,
low latency requirements or strict data security and privacy requirements.
But as you heard yesterday from Thomas,
we're working to help you solve some of these constraints.
With the announcement of Google Distributed Cloud,
we're extending our infrastructure to the edge and to your own data centers.
This announcement allows you to further digitize your business applications
by ensuring they have the speed, intelligence and processing power in managed,
heterogeneous environments, and we're approaching this
from a differentiated standpoint relative to other cloud providers.
First, we bring Google's AI and Analytics solutions closer to where
the data is being generated and consumed to harness real time insights.
Second, Google Distributed Cloud is enabled by Anthos.
It helps you to build and run applications on GKE clusters
and virtual machines anywhere with a Cloud-backed control plane
for consistent management at scale.
And third, our planet-scale infrastructure delivers the highest level of performance
and availability on the most secure and sustainable platform.
Google Distributed Cloud is a fully-managed integrated hardware and software solution,
meaning you don't have to worry about the underlying infrastructure and can focus
on your applications and business initiatives.
We aim to simplify operations leveraging Google's expertise
and track record in areas like skill deployment,
fleet management and site reliability engineering.
This allows you to focus on your business priorities and leave the complexities to us.
Google Distributed Cloud is designed
for running sensitive workloads that meet sovereignty requirements
and offers private 5G LTE solutions for enterprise customers.
There are four deployment scenarios, depending on the customer's need.
The Google network edge, the operator edge, the customer edge, and customer data centers.
The first use case I'll talk through is that Google's network edge,
which is designed for single and multi-tenant use cases,
leveraging over 140 Google network edge locations worldwide.
Next is the operator edge.
This is owned by communications service providers
for both single and multi-tenant cloud use cases.
As I mentioned before, you'll benefit from 5G LTE services
provided by our operator partners.
It can accommodate emerging services and applications with stringent latency
and reliability requirements.
For example, online games and game streaming depend on low latency to preserve
the end user experience.
Then we have the enterprise customer edge.
These are customer-owned edge locations such as retail stores,
factory floors or branch offices,
which require localized compute
and processing directly in these edge locations.
Next, the customer data centers are customer owned facilities or Colo facilities
and are set up for single and multi-tenant hybrid scenarios.
It's also ideal for lifecycle management of virtual network functions
for communication service providers that reside on premises
such as cloud native buildout of private 5G networks.
Google Distributed Cloud also includes a hosted mode to run sensitive workloads.
Hosted mode helps you meet sovereignty needs by addressing data residency
with strict security and privacy requirements,
all while providing you with a way to modernize on-premise deployments.
Customers can manage this directly or host through a designated and trusted partner.
The good news is that hosted mode does not require connectivity to Google Cloud
at any time to manage infrastructure and uses a local control plane for operations.
Upgrades and patches are offered by Google and verified by the trusted partner.
To learn more about how customers are leveraging Google's distributed cloud,
I'd like to welcome Rasesh Patel, Chief Product and Platform Officer AT&T.
Rasesh, welcome to Next.
Thanks Sachin. It's so good to be here with you today.
Rasesh, why don't we dig right in and have you tell us about
how you are looking to leverage Google's distributed cloud
for your edge and computing needs?
You bet. I'd start with saying AT&T and Google
have similar goals when it comes to edge compute.
We both want our business customers to build
and run modern applications close to their end users.
By moving compute workloads closer to the user,
we can reduce latency to levels that will allow for
a whole new range of mobile experiences that weren't possible before.
Sometimes this compute will be on the network edge.
Sometimes it will be at the customer premise.
But regardless of where the compute workloads occur,
this is not something AT&T is going to do alone.
That is tremendous.
It is really fascinating how communications has been able to
influence business revolution, and it looks like you are poised to do it all over again.
So what kind of new business outcomes do you think we can bring together
with 5G and Edge?
You're absolutely right, Sachin.
Our goal is to create net new business services
and customer experiences.
Let me give you some industry examples.
In retail, services including streamlining automated inventory management,
predicting and managing queues,
even enabling cashier-less checkout options will come to life.
In health care, we see secure multi-get connectivity
for all devices within a hospital.
The advent of remote patient diagnostics and care
in rapid data transfer between field-based emergency medical services
like an ambulance and hospitals.
And in the entertainment industry,
we're enhancing in-venue experiences for concerts and sporting events,
with solutions ranging from immersive AR and VR experiences, smart parking,
ticket lists entry to contactless food and souvenir payment.
Last question. What are your goals for AT&T and Google partnership
in the next three to five years?
Well, our work together brings market transformative capabilities
to businesses across many industries.
5G and fiber based edge connectivity
and compute with Google's powerful ecosystem that includes maps, voice recognition,
A.I. , Android and many other capabilities enables
the development of these next gen experiences in an accelerated time to market.
And we're looking forward to a lot of expansion.
We're bringing our network-based solution with Google Cloud to over 15 major markets
in the next several years.
We have plans to roll out the services in major metro markets,
including Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, San Francisco and many more. So stay tuned.
Thank you for joining us, Rasesh, and we look forward to continued success
and delivering joint value to our mutual customers. Thank you again, Rasesh.
Thanks for having me.
Everything you just heard about Google Distributed Cloud is made possible
by Google's Planet scale infrastructure.
To ensure you are successful,
our infrastructure delivers several key differentiated benefits,
including a global network construct, performant and customizable compute services,
and reliable and secure storage.
First, at the core of this infrastructure is the world's largest
and lowest latency network, with 27 regions,
82 zones and 146 points of presence located in more than 200 countries,
all interconnected with 16 subsea cables.
It enables companies like Major League Baseball,
Wayfair and 1800 flowers to quickly migrate existing enterprise workloads
to Google Cloud
and we're continuing to invest in our global network and global reach.
This year alone, we have already added 4 new cloud regions.
Warsaw, Delhi, Melbourne and Toronto.
Moreover, with simpler networking solutions such as Network Connectivity Center,
you can easily connect STNs,
VPNs and interconnects with a centralised management model
and monitor the network with Network Intelligence Centre.
And with Private Service Connect,
you can connect at the service layer without configuring the underlying network.
Second is our performance and customizable compute platform.
Compute Engine allows your applications to achieve higher reliability,
security and scale without any of the operational toil.
We recently announced a new VM family: Tau VMs,
which is optimized for scale-out digital native workloads.
Tau VMs offer 42% higher price performance than alternatives
from any other leading cloud provider.
As of today,
I'm also excited to announce the preview release of new spot VMs.
With Spot VMs, you can use excess compute capacity at deeply discounted rates,
and our new spot VMs offer better savings
and more predictable pricing than alternatives from any other leading cloud.
Third, our business continuity and storage options.
Our strategy is about tailoring your storage needs to your workload
so we can meet your price and performance needs.
To advance our storage as the best option for global enterprises,
we'd recently introduced three important new services.
The first is backup for GKE,
which is an easy, cloud-native way for customers to protect their configuration
and data running in their stateful containers.
The second is Filestore Enterprise,
a cloud-native managed NFS storage solution that offers 99.99% availability SLA
and is ideal for running enterprise applications
such as SAP and GCP.
And the third is additional robust business continuity features
for cloud storage that extends
the unique single namespace model we have with dual region buckets.
You now get more choice in where your data is stored with custom, dual-region buckets
and the option of a new market leading 15 minute RPO SLA.
We're passionate about helping customers continually evolve their approach
to modernization and bring more of their applications and data to the cloud.
Google Cloud is planet-scale available wherever you need it,
while also providing cutting edge innovations in performance and security.
Our goal is to make your journey to cloud easy by offering transformative capabilities
to help you innovate faster and save money
through an open approach that enables flexibility and choice.
Next, I'm going to turn it over to the demo team to bring
the magic of Google Cloud to life.
So stick around and after the demo, we'll be taking your questions in a live Q&A.
See you then!