Cisco announced Tuesday that it’s expanding its partnership with Google Cloud around network connectivity to cloud-based applications. Specifically, the companies will integrate Cisco’s software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) with Google Cloud’s global network and Anthos, offering joint customers full WAN application integration with cloud workloads.
For context, Cisco’s integrations with Google Cloud go back to 2017, when the companies formed a hybrid cloud partnership aimed at better connecting Cisco’s infrastructure with Google’s services. Kubernetes, Istio and Apigee served as the glue in the initial Cisco-Google effort.
