AT&T on Tuesday explained [1]how it's collaborating with Google to build up a more robust cloud services portfolio, starting with its involvement in Google's Partner Interconnect service.
Partner Interconnect gives businesses a secure way to connect to the Google Cloud Platform (businesses can also connect to GCP via Cloud VPN or Dedicated Interconnect[2]). As Google announced[3] last month, it's partnering with several ISPs to provide customers private connectivity, even if their data centers are geographically distant from a Google Cloud region. Businesses using AT&T to connect to GCP will use AT&T NetBond for Cloud, which lets customers move workloads across multiple cloud environments without ever touching the public internet.
On top of that, AT&T is also offering Google's G Suite productivity tools available via AT&T Collaboration, its own cloud-based voice and collaboration service. This will give businesses carrier-grade voice reliability and security from within G Suite.
In a statement, Roman Pacewicz, chief product officer for AT&T Business, said that AT&T is "committed to helping businesses transform through our edge-to-edge capabilities."