Google (NASDAQ:$GOOGL) – owned by Alphabet, Inc. – just announced some new enhancements to its cloud networking capabilities today, all of which are designed to provide customers with more options for connecting their private data centers with those that are run by the tech behemoth.
To start, Google’s Dedicated Interconnect service, which lets customers establish private connections between their private datacenters and Google’s network, has crossed the threshold to general availability. The Mountain View, the California-based company rolled out the service last month, and it is now available from more locations around the world. As of right now, Google guarantees 99.99% uptime for customers that use the service, which can be accessed from a number of locations in Europe, Australia, North America, and Asia.
Second, Google also introduced Cloud Router Global Routing, which is a new feature that has been designed to make any subnet in Google Cloud available worldwide via Dedicated Interconnect. What does this mean? It means it’s possible for a customer in the United States to connect their data center to Google’s network in New York. It also allows customers to access all of their cloud applications, even those that are running in datacenters on other continents.
Essentially, this is all apart of Google’s push to serve massive enterprise customers with its cloud offerings.
It is important to note that Google does not have Dedicated Interconnect peering locations anywhere in Central America, Africa, or South America. However, as announced today, Google is working with Equinix (NASDAQ:$EQIX) to provide additional locations for the service in the future, as well as building out its global network.
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