Zadara Storage Inc., provider of enterprise-class Storage as a Service, has recently added support for the Google Cloud Platform, enabling customers to leverage the enterprise-grade functionality of the Zadara Storage Cloud. This integration takes advantage of Google’s existing edge of network infrastructure, as Zadara looks to the search giant’s enterprise solutions for their expertise in networking and low latency.

Noam Shendar, COO at Zadara Storage, and Dave Elliott, global product lead of Enterprise Cloud at Google, joined Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), co-host of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to discuss their new alliance and how this partnership will benefit both Zadara Storage and Google.

Google’s low-latency differentiation

Frick started off by asking the guests, “What’s special about Google Cloud? What does it provide that the other [cloud providers] don’t?”

Shendar explained that most people are familiar with Google because of its powerful search engine capabilities. For many years, in support of its search engine, Google established an infrastructure of global data centers, with networks connecting them, so that customers, no matter where they are in the world, can connect through hundreds of Edge Network locations for low-latency access to the cloud.

With the other major clouds, the customer has to be physically close to the actual cloud location for latency; with Google, cloud customers have far more location flexibility, he explained.

“We think this will do more to get more people on board with their cloud enterprise applications,” said Shendar.

Smoother and faster workload migration

Elliott said that Google believes Zadara Storage fills a gap for them. As more and more enterprises move to the cloud, they have storage requirements from the legacy days. No matter what a customer requires, Google Cloud Platform will be able to meet them, working with Zadara, Elliott stated.

“It’s two use cases: the traditional enterprise customer, with workloads running private or on-prem, and it’s our customers who are running on our compute instances and who love the compute instances, but who are maybe holding back on moving more of those delicate workloads to the cloud,” explained Elliott.

He also said that everything about this relationship is helping enterprises migrate more and more workloads to the cloud.

And regarding Google’s pursuit of the enterprise, including with the Google Cloud platform, Elliott said, “As opposed to most cloud vendors, we want to get the data, we want to get the bits onto our network, as quickly as possible. Better response, much lower latency, better predictability.”

Watch the complete video interview below:

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