To accommodate these goals, NetApp and Google have joined forces to provide an enterprise-class hybrid cloud solution based on NetApp HCI, a disaggregated hyper-converged infrastructure validated to work with Google Cloud Anthos. NetApp HCI is billed as both a hybrid cloud infrastructure and hyper-converged infrastructure.
With the addition of Google Cloud Anthos, NetApp HCI can more readily extend into the cloud, making it a more comprehensive and versatile platform than ever.
At the heart of Anthos lies the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), which drives the platform's container-based operations -- both in Google Cloud and in data center systems.
Each GKE on-prem instance communicates and interoperates with Google Cloud GKE, enabling administrators to manage workloads on premises or in Google Cloud.