This Is Google Cloud with Intel: Moving Enterprise Transformation Forward
Google Cloud offers a set of high-performance, customizable solutions based on the latest Intel technologies designed to address the security, compute, and memory requirements of the most demanding enterprise workloads and applications.
Why Intel
Performance Per Cost
Extend the business value of your cloud computing workloads by selecting Intel instances in Google Cloud. Google Cloud with Intel can reduce your TCO by expanding your choices, such as by making preemptible VMs widely available with dramatically reduced pricing. For workloads with specialized demands, like AI and HPC, Intel-powered C2 instances are more cost-effective than any other choice.
Agility to Evolve and to Capitalize
Get more value from your data and your existing infrastructure with the flexibility of Intel instances on Google Cloud. Intel helps you to simplify your move to a hybrid or multi-cloud solution with Intel® Select Solutions for Google Cloud’s Anthos. Intel on Google Cloud takes your applications, data, and workloads across the globe and even across architectures, so you can find and respond to opportunity more freely.
Access the Latest Technologies
Enhance the performance of Google Cloud workloads that depend on large in-memory datasets with Intel® architecture. Intel instances are designed with homogeneous dies that deliver better memory bandwidth, less memory latency, and better price/performance ratio for workloads such as relational databases.
What’s New
Get the Solution Your Enterprise Needs to Move Forward
Performance on your terms: Whether your applications require multi-cloud management, large memory, machine learning, high-performance compute, or HiFi content rendering and delivery, Google Cloud instances with the latest Intel technology provide scalable, mission-critical solutions for your needs.
Manufacturing and CAE with Intel® Select Solutions for HPC on Google Cloud
Manufacturing and others using CAE appreciate the benefits of an Intel and Google Cloud HPC solution for fast deployment, application interoperability and easy user collaboration.
Get Better Performance on Google Cloud with Intel® Architecture
Enhance the performance of Google Cloud workloads that depend on large in-memory datasets with Intel® architecture. Intel instances are designed with homogeneous dies that deliver better memory bandwidth, less memory latency, and better price/performance ratio for workloads such as relational databases.
SAP on Google Cloud
Accelerate decision-making in your enterprise with high-performance SAP HANA databases on Google Cloud. Intel offers the only instances certified for SAP HANA on Google Cloud. This certification is the result of a close partnership with SAP and extensive development work, stringent testing, and thorough configuration optimization.
Simplify the Move to Hybrid Cloud and Gain Business Agility
Don’t fear migrating workloads to the cloud. Intel and Google Cloud are making hybrid cloud migration worry-free with Google Cloud Vmware engine.
Oracle on Google Bare Metal
Modernize existing Oracle Database workloads with seamless and secure migration to Google Cloud with Bare Metal Solution, powered exclusively by Intel.
Intel Select Solution for Google Cloud’s Anthos
Intel Select Solutions for Google Cloud’s Anthos* can simplify your move to a hybrid or multi-cloud solution by offering pre-tested, validated solutions that make use of your existing VMware vSphere* and VMware vSAN* environment. The solution allows you to quickly and easily deploy and manage apps and workloads using virtual machines (VMs) or Kubernetes* containers across your on-premises environment, on your hybrid cloud, or to your preferred cloud provider.
SAP on Google Cloud
Digital Transformation continues to become a higher priority with more enterprises migrating to the cloud. SAP on Google Cloud with Intel delivers SAP-certified components for optimized, enterprise-ready platforms harnessing the benefits of cloud migration resulting in faster insights and minimal downtime.
FFF Enterprises
Hosted on Google Cloud, FFF Enterprises overcomes challenges associated with SAP hosting infrastructure outages and downtime.
Remy Cointreau
As a French, family-owned business dating to 1724, Remy Cointreau is working to be more customer-centric. Learn how operations that used to take five weeks now take five minutes, and how they are leveraging live data analysis with SAP on Google Cloud.
Carrefour
Carrefour runs SAP on Google Cloud with full data centralization for the best possible customer service, both on- and offline.
This is Google Cloud on Intel
Performance on your terms: Google Cloud instances with the latest Intel technology provide scalable, mission-critical solutions for your needs.
Performance for Every Workload
Databricks on GCP N2 vs. N2D
With Photon Query Engine Enabled, These VMs with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors Outperformed n2d-highmem-8 VMs.
Databricks with Photon Enabled on GCP N2 VMs
Use Photon to Maximize Decision Support Database Performance on n2-highmem-8 VMs featuring Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Analyze Data up to 1.25x Faster with Google Cloud
Get insights from data faster by selecting Google Cloud N2 standard VM instances with 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Process 1.25x MariaDB Transactions with Google
Elevate OLTP database performance by choosing Google Cloud N2 VM instances with 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
PostgreSQL DBs Perform on Google Cloud N2 VMs
Improve PostgreSQL database performance with Google Cloud N2 VM instances featuring 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Google Cloud N2 Instances Analyze Databases Faster
Complete SQL Server online analytics processing workloads more quickly with Google Cloud N2 VM instances.
Google Cloud N2 High-Memory VM Databases Perform
Improve MySQL database performance with Google Cloud N2 high-memory VMs on 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Get Faster Insights with Google Cloud N2 VMs
Get insights from data faster with Google Cloud N2 VM instances featuring 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Handle 1.60x WordPress Traffic with Google Cloud
Get stronger performance on new C2 VM instances featuring 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Google Cloud N2 Executed 1.42x as WordPress N1 VM
Improve the return on your Google Cloud investment with new N2 VM instances and 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Better Performance and Container Scaling on Splunk
Bare-metal clusters with 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors improve Splunk indexing, searching, and container scaling.
Intel-Powered Instance Offerings
Customers can easily build upon Intel-powered Google Cloud instances enabling your data-driven platforms to store more, process faster, and migrate quicker—with a flexible, high-performance set of instances that work with your workloads and your budget, not against it.
Product Table
Instance Type |
C2 Compute Optimized |
N2 General Purpose |
M2-UltraMem Memory Optimized |
N1 General Purpose |
M1-UltraMem Memory Optimized |
M1-MegaMem Memory Optimized |
Google Cloud VMware Engine |
O2- Bare Metal Solution (O2) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Target Workload |
Apps Needing Single Threaded Frequency (i.e. HPC,EDA, Gaming) |
Mainstream |
High Memory Database (i.e. SAP HANA) |
Mainstream |
High Memory Database (i.e. SAP HANA) |
High Memory Database (i.e. SAP HANA) |
VMware-based nodes |
Oracle database, SAP HANA |
CPU |
2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable |
2nd Gen/3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable |
2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable |
Various Intel® Xeon®, including Xeon® Scalable |
Intel® Xeon® E7v4 |
Intel® Xeon® Scalable |
2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable |
2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable |
vCPUs |
Up to 60 |
Up to 80 |
208 / 416 |
Up to 96 |
40 / 80 / 160 |
96 |
72 |
32 vCPUs to xxx vCPUs (xxx different sole tenant shapes) |
Memory |
Up to 240GB |
Up to 624GB |
6TB / 12TB |
Up to 624GB |
1TB / 2TB / 4TB |
1.4TB |
1TB |
384 GB RAM to 24TB |
All-Core Turbo Boost Speed |
3.8 GHz (Sustained) |
3.4 GHz |
3.4 GHz |
2.7 GHz (Xeon Scalable) |
2.6 GHz |
2.7 GHz |
3.9 GHz |
|
Baseline Cloud Speed |
3.1 GHz |
2.8 GHz |
2.5 GHz |
2.0 GHz (Xeon Scalable) |
2.2 GHz |
2.0 GHz |
2.6 GHz |
|
| Available in GCP Regions | 17 | 26/3 | 6 | 23 | 17 | 17 | 10 | 9 |
Case Studies
Google Cloud and Intel AI Partner with NASA-FDL on Space Challenges
For 2019 Google Cloud and Intel AI partnered with NASA’s Frontier Development Labs for their fourth annual summer research accelerator. Intel mentors worked with google cloud mentors and early career Ph.D’s from around the world, applying the latest machine learning and AI technology for smarter, faster problem solving on some of space travel’s most pressing issues like lunar resources, space weather and earth observations.
Broad Institute: Google Cloud Accelerates Research
Performance on your terms: In collaboration with Google Cloud and Intel, the Broad Institute optimized their genomics workloads for fast, cost-effective execution on Google Cloud N1 and N2 instances resulting in 85 percent reduction in cost of data processing.
StubHub's Instant Scalability Plan
The Intel-powered Bare Metal Solution on Google Cloud Platform accelerated StubHub's cloud journey, modernizing their data center, and saving money.
meldCX
meldCX is an Intel Solutions Affiliate partner with a number of market ready solutions on the Intel Marketplace. These solutions utilise Intel technology across a broad range of verticals and use cases. Our partnership has helped us eliminate development blockers especially in the applied IOT space. Intel's Machine Learning Suite of Products like Openvino, Movidius and Intel's Core Processors allow us to apply advanced computer vision algorithms to our platform so that we can rapidly deliver innovative AI solutions in physical environments and create entirely new customer experiences.
— Joy Chua EVP - marketing & strategy
Rendering
We’re saving 30% on our rendering costs...and provide about double the rendering performance with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
— Steve Kowalski, VP of Systems Engineering, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Biomedical
Using Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor GCP instances resulted in significant speedup, 1.8x faster than previous generation of the Seven Bridges Graph Suite’s end-to-end whole genome processing pipeline.
— Brandi Davis-Dusenbery PHD, CEO
IT Consulting
Leveraging the GCE C2 VMs on Intel 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable processor. "One of the critical jobs/ processes took 82% less time to complete at 42% less cost."
— Dan Speck, Burwood Group
Digital Media
The first WordPress Digital Experience Platform to adopt GCP's newest infrastructure, the Compute-Optimized VM (C2). When combined with other optimizations, WP Engine achieved platform performance that was 40% faster than before.
— Jason Cohen, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, WP Engine
Geospatial Intelligence
We've already seen file compression rates improve by 38% and image extractions speed up by 24%.
— Tim Kelton, Co-founder and Cloud Architect, Descartes Labs
Healthcare
Moving to a 12TB virtualized environment with the help of Google Cloud is going to provide us with a better platform for growth as we look to optimize and scale. It’s been a great partnership.
— Duy Trinh, SAP Center of Excellence, Cardinal Health
Key Bank
Anthos is a true differentiator to have solutions updates every day using Hyperflex. Google was a natural solution for us because of performance and security.
— Key City End User success story
Kinsta’s WordPress Customers Run Faster
Google Cloud optimized servers offer high performance web serving and scalability.
Arcules Enhances Video Security with a Cloud Native Vision
Arcules is breaking new ground addressing cost effectiveness, security and scalability in moving their video surveillance customers to the cloud.
Intel and Google Cloud Team with All of Us Research Program
Intel today joins the National Institutes of Health (NIH) All of Us Research Program in its historic effort to improve population health.
Gitlab: Helping Customers Accelerate Digital Transformation
Google Cloud and Rackspace Technology, enabled by Intel technologies, are helping GitLab solve for velocity, enabling customers to build and release their software products faster.
Faster, Smarter Translation Enabled by AI
With Intel Optimization for TensorFlow, linguists secure improved translations enabled by AI and powered by Google Cloud.