Moving Digital Transformation Forward
As customers manage more data than ever, they need high-performance infrastructure and cloud services that meet their demands today and provide scalability and flexibility for the future. Intel and Google Cloud deepened their strategic partnership in 20161 to create joint solutions that build, scale, and accelerate digital transformation for today and tomorrow’s leading workloads.
Meet Your Intel Team
Watch this video to find out about Google Cloud and Intel’s strategic alliance, and how we are using our technology to help solve customers’ challenges.
Performance for the Most Demanding Workloads
Whatever your customer’s cloud workload, Intel and Google Cloud bring performant, flexible solutions designed to meet customers’ compute and memory requirements cost-efficiently across a variety of workloads.
C2 – compute-optimized workloads: For your customers’ most demanding workloads such as video encoding, HPC, multi-player gaming and real-time web serving, C2 instances deliver the highest per-core performance on Google Cloud. Hardware transparency allows fine-tuning of complex HPC workloads, while built-in AI acceleration provides embedded performance improvement for deep learning workloads.
M2 – memory-optimized workloads: Highly optimized for critical applications such as data analytics, and SAP HANA*, M2 instances offer simplified management and live VM migration designed for zero downtime.
For more complete information about performance and benchmark results, visit www.intel.com/benchmarks.
Customer Success Story: Performance, Flexibility, and AI-Readiness for Complex Weather Modeling
ClimaCell’s disruptive weather prediction tools and Application Programming Interface (API) provide high precision micro-forecasting that helps the airline industry and transport services operate safely. Google Cloud’s Compute Engine C2 instances, powered by 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, provide the exceptional speed (40% performance improvement compared to current GCP VMs)2 and scalability ClimaCell needs to create detailed and accurate micro-forecasts.
Read how ClimaCell improved performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness ›
For more complete information about performance and benchmark results, visit www.intel.com/benchmarks.
Customer Success Story: Faster Platform Performance with C2 Instances
WP Engine is the leading digital experience platform for WordPress. Using C2 instances on Google Cloud Platform in combination with other software optimizations, WP Engine achieved 60 percent faster platform performance than before.3 With “Live Migration” instances, virtual machines (VMs) or Kubernetes containers can be run with zero planned downtime, even when performing system maintenance and microcode updates.
Learn how WP Engine improved performance by 60 percent ›
For more complete information about performance and benchmark results, visit www.intel.com/benchmarks.
Balanced Performance for Critical Enterprise Workloads
Together Intel and Google Cloud provide the powerful, high-capacity solutions that help customers move their business-critical applications to the cloud. Intel® technology-based VMs are certified by SAP, VMware and Oracle, providing a low-risk, reliable foundation.
Seamless VMware Migration to a Certified Google Cloud Instance
Intel in Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) enables customers running VMware workloads on-premises to seamlessly migrate to Google Cloud. With GCVE instances running on Intel® processors, customers can migrate their VMware applications with just a few clicks and with no need to refactor them.
Bare Metal Solution: VMWare and Oracle
Bare Metal Solution is designed for the performance and high availability needs of mission-critical, enterprise-grade applications.
Low Risk, Accelerated Deployment for Oracle Databases
Customers can streamline the process for applications that require an Oracle database with Intel and Google Cloud. Intel optimizes Oracle to support migration and accelerate customers’ time to deployment.
Flexibility, Performance, Scale, and Security for SAP HANA
With Intel and Google Cloud, customers can manage SAP infrastructure without the complexity, and benefit from AI-enhanced security features and design for zero-downtime. Intel and Google Cloud Alliance provide 6 and 12 TB VMs for SAP HANA instances on Google Cloud Platform. These VMs, built on the latest Intel® Xeon® processors, and certified by SAP for HANA, bring customers flexibility for today, and ease of scale and growth for tomorrow.
Notices and Disclaimers
Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel® microprocessors.
Performance tests, such as SYSmark* and MobileMark*, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations, and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more complete information, visit www.intel.com/benchmarks.
Performance results are based on testing as of dates shown in configurations and may not reflect all publicly available updates. See backup for configuration details. No product or component can be absolutely secure.
Intel® technologies may require enabled hardware, software, or service activation.
No product or component can be absolutely secure.
Your costs and results may vary.
Intel does not control or audit third-party data. You should consult other sources to evaluate accuracy.