Global Capacity has been approved as a Google Cloud Interconnect service provider to provide business customers with direct connectivity to Google Cloud Platform. Global Capacity's One Marketplace platform will play an important role in the Google Cloud Platform ecosystem by providing cost effective, secure and reliable network connectivity that is essential for Enterprises to successfully create anything from simple websites to complex business applications. One Marketplace has the extensive network reach and innovative applications that provide real-time network pricing and ordering with end to end delivery of private Ethernet connectivity and IP services.

Under the Google Cloud Interconnect (GCI) program, Enterprises take advantage of One Marketplace and its Network Builder application to design, price and order data connectivity between business locations and Google Cloud Platform locations. Cloud connectivity from One Marketplace provides flexible bandwidth options for business traffic from over 9.6 million commercial addresses to Google Cloud Platform. 

"Google approved One Marketplace as part of a small group of Google Cloud Interconnect service providers, underscoring the innovation Global Capacity and One Marketplace have brought to the data connectivity and cloud market," said Ben Edmond, chief revenue officer of Global Capacity. "Global Capacity will continue to transform the process of consuming network connectivity in support for Google's continued innovation in the market."

Global Capacity and Google are working together to define new and better ways for Global Capacity's more than 20,000 business customers to connect to Google Cloud Platform services. One Marketplace direct Ethernet interconnection can be used to access any Google Cloud Platform service including Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage, and Google BigQuery to create anything from websites to complex applications. One Marketplace provides guaranteed bandwidth and offers connections from 1Mb up to 10Gig to further increase the network reliability that enables developers and enterprises to build, test and deploy applications on Google's highly-scalable and reliable infrastructure.

This article was originally posted “Global Capacity Is An Approved Google Cloud Interconnect Service Provider” from Cloud Strategy Magazine.