The partnership announcements you may have missed from Google Cloud Next 2025

What vendors have announced new capabilities out of Google Cloud Next for Aussie partners.

At Google Cloud Next, the search engine giant has been showcasing its latest and greatest in cloud technology from Agent Development Kit to a slew of cloud security features.

At the same time, several of its partners have announced how these new updates will impact them and their customers.

There are updates to a varying amount of technology including monitoring capabilities, cyber resilience, and cloud storage.

Here are all the partnership announcements from Google Cloud Next that you may have missed.

Infoblox

Cloud networking and security company Infoblox has unveiled two new solutions through its partnership with Google Cloud.

The company said these solutions will help enterprises address challenges in hybrid, multi-cloud networking and cybersecurity.

The first is Infoblox Universal DDO for Google’s Cloud WAN. A fully integrated solution that combines the global Google Cloud Cross-Cloud Network infrastructure with Infoblox’s DNS and DHCP capabilities to transform enterprise networking.

The second is Google Cloud DNS Armor, powered by Infoblox, ia next-generation, native Protective DNS solution that provides the pre-emptive detection of malicious activity for Google Cloud workloads.

Scott Harrell, president and CEO at Infoblox said the partnership with Google Cloud represents a strategic milestone in their commitment to innovation and mission to enhance cloud networking and security.

“It’s a testament to the critical role that Protective DNS and DDI services play in managing and securing today’s hybrid multi-cloud environments. Infoblox and Google Cloud are providing enterprises with tightly integrated, cloud-first solutions that enable secure connectivity while also reducing operational overhead,” he said.

“Together, our technologies are used to manage critical workloads at nearly every Fortune 100 company.”

Datadog

Datadog expanded its Google Cloud observability capabilities with six new products, including expanded monitoring capabilities for BigQuery.

These six new products are as follows: LLM observability, Cloud TPU integration, private service connect, GKE autoscaling (in preview), storage monitoring (in preview); and Google Cloud cost recommendations (in preview).

Yrieix Garnier, VP of Product at Datadog said it takes significant time to pinpoint where the largest BigQuery usage is coming from across projects and drill into the problematic queries to optimise.

“With our new BigQuery monitoring capabilities, which complement our existing 35 plus Google Cloud integrations, Datadog customers can identify cross-project BigQuery cost centres, high-impact optimisation opportunities and the stakeholders that need to be involved,” he explained.

“Customers can also improve data quality by detecting data freshness and volume anomalies so they can fix issues quickly and ensure their business has accurate and up-to-date insights.”

Rubrik

Rubrik has announced a new cyber resilience and recovery solution in partnership with Google Cloud.

According to the company, this collaboration brings, cloud-based isolated recovery environment in Google Cloud, strengthened protection of Google Cloud Engine and Google Cloud SQL, and enterprise-grade protection for Google Workspace.

Anneka Gupta, chief product officer at Rubrik explained as organisations increasingly shift their business-critical data to the cloud, they're confronted with new challenges in protecting sensitive information against rapidly evolving cyber threats—challenges their traditional security technologies simply can't address.

"We aim to empower Google Cloud customers to address these challenges with confidence, enabling them to strengthen their cyber resilience, streamline data protection, optimise backup and recovery processes, and ensure business continuity in the face of any cyber incident,” she said.

Rubrik Annapurna, the company’s API service for customers building generative AI applications, has new features that enable Rubrik users to use its capabilities in conjunction with Google Agentspace.

According to the company, Rubrik can support enterprise AI models that retrieve, govern, and protect sensitive data with Zero Trust security on Google Cloud.

Rubrik said Annapurna will use Agentspace to allow companies to confidently move AI projects from pilot to production in the cloud by providing easy, secure access to data across cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments.

Arvind Nithrakashyap, co-founder and CTO at Rubrik said, “With Agentspace, Rubrik Annapurna customers can now recognise the full potential of generative AI, while safely harnessing their enterprise data for AI and maintaining Zero Trust security.”

NetApp

Data infrastructure company NetApp has new capabilities for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, its fully managed file storage service.

According to NetApp, customers will be able to scale high-performance enterprise apps and databases, including workloads with petabyte-scale datasets, such as electronic design automation (EDA), AI applications, and content data repositories.

For many organisations, the cloud is the fastest and simplest path to using AI to uncover data-driven insights, according to Pravjit Tiwana, SVP and general manager, Cloud Storage at NetApp.

"Our collaboration with Google Cloud is accelerating generative AI data pipelines by seamlessly integrating the latest AI innovations with the robust data management capabilities of NetApp Ontap.

“The new capabilities of NetApp Volumes help customers scale their cloud storage to meet the demands of the modern, high-performance applications and datasets that drive meaningful business outcomes.”

Some of these new capabilities in NetApp Volumes include integration with Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Platform, improvements for premium and extreme service levels, improvements for flex service level, and Google Cloud assured workloads onboarding.