From InfoWorld: Google has made a series of announcements aimed at helping Microsoft customers run Windows workloads on Google's cloud.
Microsoft License Mobility is now available for Google Cloud Platform, Google said Monday in a blog post. This allows customers using SQL Server, SharePoint and Exchange on-site to migrate those applications to Google's cloud without paying Microsoft additional licensing fees. This feature also applies to customers who hold a perpetual license, Google said. Using Microsoft products on Google's cloud is subject to additional conditions, so users should review Google Cloud Compute's service terms, the company said.
Google also announced that Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition is available to all Google Cloud Platform customers in beta on Google Compute Engine. Google explained this feature by acknowledging that some customers using Windows also want a way to run applications in the cloud.
"We know our customers run some of their key workloads on Windows and want rapid deployment, high performance and the ability to stretch their datacenters to the cloud," wrote product manager Martin Buhr in the blog.
Still, Google wasn't ready to promote Microsoft's competing Azure cloud service over its own offerings. Google said that its cloud platform "is the best place to run your Windows workload" since it supports Local SSD and offers different ways to link a customer's data center to the cloud.
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