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<\/p>\n\u2018By combining Google\u2019s agentic infrastructure with IBM\u2019s deep industry expertise and proven delivery frameworks, we are ensuring joint customers can move beyond pilots to deploy and govern production-grade AI agents across their entire cloud environment,\u2019 says Kevin Ichhpurani, Google Cloud\u2019s channel chief.<\/p>\n
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Google Cloud<\/a> launched a new practice that combines its Gemini Enterprise AI Agent<\/a> technologies with IBM\u2019s Consulting Advantage platform to help customers quickly scale AI into production and enable joint clients to deploy AI agents on Google Cloud.<\/p>\n \u201cThis partnership significantly expands the pool of expert Google Cloud consultants in the market to meet surging demand for AI,\u201d said Kevin Ichhpurani, president of global partner ecosystem at Google Cloud, in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cBy combining Google\u2019s agentic infrastructure<\/a> with IBM\u2019s<\/a> deep industry expertise and proven delivery frameworks, we are ensuring joint customers can move beyond pilots to deploy and govern production-grade AI agents across their entire cloud environment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n IBM consultants can now design, build and govern AI agents directly on Google Cloud.<\/p>\n [Related: Lenovo Increases Prices For PCs, Laptops And Device Custom Builds; Parters Weigh In<\/a>]<\/p>\n The companies said this new Google Cloud-IBM offering represents a multibillion-dollar opportunity.<\/p>\n Google\u2019s new Google Cloud Practice combines IBM industry expertise<\/a> and AI-powered consulting platform\u2014designed to help teams design, build and deploy AI solutions faster using agents\u2014with the Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise Agent<\/a> along with Google capabilities in cybersecurity and data.<\/p>\n \u201cAnytime we can optimize Gemini Enterprise is good for us and our customers,\u201d said Patrick Pugh, global and U.S. alliance and ecosystem leader for Google partner PwC.<\/p>\n \u201cThe pilot and experimentation phase is somewhat over, so now we really are getting into the time of, \u2018How do you find the technology, the metrics, the measurements, etc. to drive true outcomes and really change companies?\u2019 These partnerships, this new technology, these advancements, etc. you really are seeing that reality come to life now,\u201d Pugh said. \u201cIt\u2019s exciting what Google\u2019s is empowering its partners with.\u201d<\/p>\n Google-IBM AI Integration Details<\/p>\n IBM is creating a portfolio<\/a> of industry-specific AI agents<\/a> built on IBM Consulting Advantage and optimized for Gemini Enterprise.<\/p>\n These agents will support use cases for banking, government, retail, telecommunications, energy, security, insurance and life sciences to help clients automate workflows, improve decision-making, and accelerate autonomous operations powered by Google Gemini models.<\/p>\n IBM methods of prebuilt assets, reusable agents and transformation methods are being combined with Google Cloud\u2019s agent runtime, governance controls and enterprise safety features.<\/p>\n The ultimate goal is to help joint customers deploy AI agents and AI solutions faster.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat Google is doing with architectural expertise, with security, with speed that we\u2019ve not seen before is bringing together these different technologies so clients can really make the best of what\u2019s out there to create AI experiences and change the ways they work,\u201d said PwC\u2019s Pugh.<\/p>\n The AI Era Is \u2018Multiparty Ecosystems,\u2019 Google-IBM\u2019s Priority Areas<\/p>\n Google\u2019s openness and willingness to team with other vendors to drive AI into production for millions of customers is the correct strategy in the AI era, Pugh said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe reality of the world now is multiparty ecosystems,\u201d he said. \u201cSomething that\u2019s been so great with Google is their approach to teaming with others. That is one thing that\u2019s been incredibly helpful for us because our clients have multiple stacks. They have a lot of tech in there. They\u2019re all trying to figure out how to bring it together.\u201d<\/p>\n Some of the Google-IBM priority areas include helping clients build foundations that support AI systems, rather than pilots, by combining IBM\u2019s industry knowledge and AI assets with Google Cloud\u2019s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and BigQuery.<\/p>\n On the cybersecurity front, the collaboration aims to modernize security operations for clients by offering AI\u2011driven defense and security capabilities to strengthen readiness and accelerate response.<\/p>\n In terms of enhanced AI-powered workloads, Google integrated Gemini with IBM watsonx Orchestrate to improve decision automation and agent intelligence, and into watsonx.data to give clients more flexible ways to generate insight to support smarter applications.<\/p>\n Google Cloud generated $20 billion in revenue during the first quarter of 2026, representing an increase of 63 percent year over year.<\/p>\n The Mountain View, Calif.-based cloud giant now has an annual run rate of $80 billion, while its parent company Alphabet currently has a market cap of $4.33 trillion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018By combining Google\u2019s agentic infrastructure with IBM\u2019s deep industry expertise and proven delivery frameworks, we are ensuring joint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[405,408,407,9958,10868,402,403,2408,132,1430],"class_list":["post-62231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-google","tag-ai-agents","tag-ai-applications","tag-ai-infrastructure","tag-cloud-channel-programs","tag-cloud-marketplace","tag-cloud-platforms","tag-cloud-software","tag-gemini","tag-google","tag-google-gemini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}