Google and Broadcom today announced a partnership that will make Broadcom’s enterprise security software available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Broadcom, in August 2019, acquired Symantec’s enterprise security business for $10.7 billion as part of an ongoing effort to grow its software business. Broadcom is also a GCP customer, and since acquiring Symantec, it has migrated that vendor’s web security service and cloud access security broker onto Google Cloud. And it will “soon” complete the migration of its other security software onto the public cloud, according to Broadcom.

Standardizing its security stack on Google Cloud infrastructure will allow it to scale and operate more efficiently, thus passing these benefits along to its enterprise customers, said Tom Krause, president of Broadcom Software Group in a statement. “This collaboration is fundamental to delivering secure access to cloud applications and providing enterprises with increased performance, continuous compliance, and enhanced security that empowers an organization's cloud adoption journey,” he said.

The move will also reduce latency and reliance on public internet traffic routes, according to Broadcom.

Additionally, Broadcom will deploy several GCP data and analytics services internally. These include Cloud SQL, Dataproc, and Bigtable, which the partners say will help Broadcom modernize its infrastructure and analytics capabilities.

“We are proud to be Broadcom’s cloud partner as it expands the global availability of these critical security and operations services and to support Broadcom’s own digital transformation,” Google Cloud President Rob Enslin said in a statement.

Google Cloud Expands Enterprise Partnerships

The partnership follows several others in the past months that also target enterprise customers as Google works to entice these companies to migrate their workloads to its cloud infrastructure. Earlier this month Google Cloud partnered with industrial software maker OSIsoft, now owned by Aveva, to deploy its industrial-sector data management platform on Google Cloud.

Last month, Google Cloud teamed up with Nokia to combines Nokia’s various radio access network (RAN) and edge cloud platforms with Google’s edge computing systems running on its Anthos platform. The No. 3 public cloud provider also in March partnered with Cisco in a deal that lets enterprise customers use Google Cloud’s private backbone network as an on-demand underlay for stitching together private data center, public cloud, and branch connectivity over virtual private network tunnels or via Cisco SD-WAN appliances.