Google Cloud Partnership Expands

Sada Systems will extend its partnership with Google Cloud. The North Hollywood tech firm said the multi-year, $500 million agreement will mean it can offer a catalog of project-based and managed services that help customers reduce their costs and time to market through hands-on support and ongoing operation of workloads. Chief Executive Tony Safoian said the company was delighted to expand its partnership with Google. “Since going all-in with Google Cloud and joining its (managed services provider) initiative, our Google Cloud Platform business has grown nearly 400 percent as we’ve seen tremendous excitement from existing and prospective customers,” Safoian said in a statement. Under the expanded partnership, Sada will offer new products and services, including with Anthos, an open hybrid and multi-cloud application platform that enables users to modernize their existing applications, build new ones and run them anywhere in a secure manner. The company will offer new AnthosLabs workshops, which will provide hands-on experiences, software and consultative training for IT professionals to build Anthos programs. “What’s most exciting about these hands-on workshops is that customers go from having zero prior experience with Anthos to deploying it to a multi-cloud environment, all in the span of one jam-packed afternoon,” said Miles Ward, chief technology officer at Sada, in a statement. In addition to bringing expanded managed services to their Google Cloud customers, Sada has increased investments in engineering, including technical account management teams that ensure customer success beyond the first workload moved to Google Cloud. Carolee Gearhart, vice president of worldwide channel sales at Google Cloud, said that Sada has proven its expertise in enabling customer success and providing innovative and scalable products for large businesses. “This multi-year agreement to digitally transform organizations with Google Cloud confirms their confidence in delivering exceptional services and solutions to customers,” Gearhart said in a statement. Sada has seen an increase in demand for managed services from large business and public sector clients, including multinational consumer products company Colgate-Palmolive Co., cable provider Dish Network Corp., Papa John’s Pizza and the State of Arizona.