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Cloud modernization: the new way to cloud

Aging on-premises servers, rising VMware licensing costs, monolithic apps that take weeks to update. If that describes your IT, there’s a better way to run it.

Google Cloud gives you a modern, scalable and secure platform. Because it’s built on open-source standards, it works with your existing systems and keeps you clear of new vendor lock-in. So you modernize step by step and see value at every stage.

Cloud modernization: the new way to cloud

When is cloud modernization right for you?

If any of these hit home, it’s probably time to rethink your infrastructure.

Infrastructure can’t keep up

Scaling takes weeks instead of minutes. Deploying new features feels like navigating a minefield.

VMware licensing is getting painful

Since the Broadcom acquisition, many companies are rethinking their VMware strategy. Costs are rising, flexibility is shrinking.

Your apps are stuck in the past

Monolithic apps that can’t scale independently, can’t integrate with modern services, and can’t benefit from AI.

Budget spent on maintenance

On-premises hardware needs refreshing. Manual operations eat up your team’s time. Innovation gets pushed to “next quarter.”

The good news? You don’t have to modernize everything at once. Google Cloud supports multiple approaches, from running existing workloads alongside new cloud services to gradually adopting cloud-native capabilities where they make the most sense.

Cloud-native applications: build for speed and scale

Modern applications are built differently. They’re containerized, modular, and designed to scale independently. Google practically invented this approach (Kubernetes was born at Google), and their platform is purpose-built for it. Here’s what we bring to the table.

Our DevOps specialists across the Cronos Group live and breathe this world. They help teams adopt cloud-native architectures with a focus on DevOps maturity, event-driven design and production-ready container platforms.

Cloud IT infrastructure: a solid foundation

Every cloud journey starts with solid infrastructure. We set up enterprise-ready Google Cloud environments that are built for performance, security, and growth.

Compute and hosting

Compute Engine runs your VM workloads, with easy migration paths from on-premises or other clouds. VMware Engine moves your VMware workloads to Google Cloud as they are, a first step toward full modernization. SAP, Oracle, Salesforce and Microsoft SQL workloads run there too.

AI-ready databases

Google’s databases have AI built in, from vector search to embeddings generated inside the database. Cloud Spanner, built for Google Search and YouTube, runs your mission-critical applications at global scale. AlloyDB gives you PostgreSQL with up to 100x faster analytics, and Cloud SQL takes the operational overhead off MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server.

Networking and storage

Google’s global private backbone delivers low-latency connectivity worldwide. Cloud Storage gives you scalable, durable object storage at every temperature, from hot to archive.

With our specialized teams across the Cronos Group, we make sure your infrastructure runs smoothly, so your team can focus on what matters.

Cloud modernization in practice

Numbers on a slide are one thing. Here’s what modernizing on Google Cloud actually looks like, from infrastructure migrations to cloud-native application platforms built for scale.

Ready to modernize?

We’ll help you find the fastest path from where you are to where you want to be.

Dirk Vereycken

Dirk Vereycken
Google Cloud Solution Specialist