Palo Alto Signs $10 Billion Deal with Google Cloud

Palo Alto Networks expanded its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to migrate key workloads to the cloud. The deal is worth about $10 billion dollars.

The vendor is now using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform portfolio and its Gemini AI large language models to power its own copilots, ensuring optimised performance, scale, and reliability for customers. The expanded partnership unites Google Cloud’s advanced AI and infrastructure capabilities with Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma AIRS AI security platform to empower enterprises to securely develop and deploy AI offerings.

According to a recent Palo Alto Networks’ state of cloud report, enterprises are dramatically increasing their use of cloud infrastructure to support new AI applications and services. However, 99% of the surveyed organisations experienced at least one attack on their AI infrastructure over the past year. The two companies stated that the newly announced agreement addresses these challenges by offering enhanced go-to-market strategies and building security into every aspect of the AI lifecycle.

Google Cloud president Matt Renner stated that the latest expansion of the partnership will ensure that joint customers have access to the right solutions to secure their most critical AI infrastructure and develop new AI agents with security built in from the start. Palo Alto Networks previously had more than 75 joint integrations with Google Cloud and $2 billion in sales through Google Cloud Marketplace.