Rakuten Symphony has announced the integration of Rakuten Symphony Symcloud™ Storage - its enterprise-grade, highest-performing storage for Kubernetes® - as a foundational software-defined storage (SDS) in Google’s Distributed Cloud Edge. This development further enhances the process of running Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters on the dedicated edge hardware provided and maintained by Google Cloud. It also represents a significant advancement in delivering sophisticated and integrated cloud services to businesses globally.
This partnership brings together the extensive cloud computing expertise of Google Cloud and Rakuten Symphony’s app-aware storage with advanced, persistent data management capabilities. The resulting robust and scalable storage solution is built to accommodate the ever-growing demands of modern enterprises.
Businesses can now deploy Symcloud Storage along with GKE Enterprise to support their new and emerging edge requirements, such as massive IoT, smart facilities, smart retail enterprise private 5G, and distributed edge.
Partha Seetala, President, Cloud Business Unit, Rakuten Symphony
This is a step forward in our commitment to technological excellence and innovation. Rakuten Symphony Cloud Native Storage – a pre-certified solution for Google Distributed Cloud Edge – acts as a local storage abstraction layer on each Distributed Cloud Edge node, making its local storage available to workloads running on other Distributed Cloud Edge nodes. The integration ensures businesses the ability to effortlessly roll out the solution across multiple locations, removing the necessity for manual intervention across various sites, and allowing for a more streamlined and cohesive deployment experience.
Vijay Tewari, Head of Product Management, Google Distributed Cloud – Storage
The work we have done with the Rakuten Symphony Cloud team offers seamless deployment of Google Distributed Cloud Edge for scale and enables our customers to harness the power of Google cloud at the edge.
