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The Home Depot and Google Cloud partner to enhance shopping experience
Google Cloud and The Home Depot have extended their multiyear cloud partnership to expand on the retailer ’ s Digital Transformation and provide customers with enhanced shopping experiences by blending physical and digital environments .
As one of the first major retailers to migrate its website to the cloud , The Home Depot has built upon Google Cloud ’ s expertise in infrastructure , Artificial Intelligence , Machine Learning , and data analytics to enrich customer experiences no matter how they choose to shop – in-store , online or on mobile devices .
“ The Home Depot ’ s long-standing focus on technology and early adoption of cloud allowed it to adapt quickly to support customers and associates during the pandemic . We ’ re proud to expand our partnership with The Home Depot to make home improvement faster and more convenient .”
“ To provide our customers with the flexibility to shop whenever and however they want , we ’ ve been intensely focused on building an innovative foundation for our systems and applications ,” said Matt Carey , CIO of The Home Depot . “ We ’ ve built on Google Cloud since 2015 , giving us the scalability and flexibility we need to meet growing demand and quickly introduce more personalized experiences for customers .”
Thomas Kurian , CEO , Google Cloud , said : “ As shoppers become even more interconnected , The Home Depot has consistently improved customer experiences in-store and online through AIpowered services .
Red Hat and Nutanix form partnership to enable open hybrid multi-clouds
Red Hat , a leading provider of enterprise open-source solutions , and Nutanix , a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing , have announced a strategic partnership to enable a powerful solution for building , scaling and managing cloud-native applications onpremises and in hybrid clouds .
The collaboration brings together industryleading technologies , enabling installation , interoperability and management of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Nutanix Cloud Platform , including Nutanix AOS and AHV .
Rajiv Ramaswami , President and CEO , Nutanix , said : “ This partnership brings together Red Hat ’ s industry-leading cloud-native solutions with the simplicity , flexibility and resilience of the Nutanix Cloud
Platform . Together , our solutions provide customers with a full stack platform to build , scale and manage containerized and virtualized cloud-native applications in a hybrid multi-cloud environment .”
Paul Cormier , President and CEO , Red Hat , said : “ We have a vision to enable open hybrid clouds , where customers have choice and flexibility . Our partnership with Nutanix brings a leading hyperconverged offering to the open hybrid cloud , driving greater choice for our joint customers in how they deploy their containerized workloads and backed by a joint support experience .”
Red Hat OpenShift will be the preferred choice for enterprise full stack Kubernetes on Nutanix Cloud Platform . Customers looking to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift on hyperconverged infrastructure ( HCI ) will be able to use an industry-leading cloud platform from Nutanix .
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