Palo Alto Networks announces multibillion-dollar Google Cloud deal

Palo Alto Networks will migrate key internal workloads to Google Cloud as part of a new multibillion-dollar agreement, the companies announced on Friday.

The companies said the deal is an expansion of their existing strategic partnership and will deepen their engineering collaboration.

Palo Alto Networks is now using Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence models to power its copilots, and it is also using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform, according to a release.

“Every board is asking how to harness AI’s power without exposing the business to new threats,” BJ Jenkins, president of Palo Alto Networks, said in a statement. “This partnership answers that question.”

Palo Alto Networks, which offers a range of cybersecurity products, already has more than 75 joint integrations with Google Cloud and has completed $2 billion in sales through the Google Cloud Marketplace.

As part of the new phase of the partnership, Palo Alto Networks customers will be able to protect live AI workloads and data on Google Cloud, maintain security policies, accelerate Google Cloud adoption and simplify and unify their security solutions, the companies said.

Shares of Palo Alto Networks were up 1% on Friday. Google shares were mostly flat.

“This latest expansion of our partnership will ensure that our 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,” Google Cloud President Matt Renner said in a statement.

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