By Chris Mellor
Publication Date: 2026-04-17 13:23:00
NetApp has boosted its Google Cloud partnership with a four-year enterprise agreement to accelerate the deployment of NetApp storage within the sovereign Google Distributed Cloud.
Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) is an air-gapped, private cloud offering delivered by World Wide Technology (WWT). GDC was launched in 2021 while air-gapped GDC was announced in 2023. Basically, it’s the on-prem version of Google’s public cloud. Google started providing its fully managed NetApp Volumes service – ONTAP running in the Google Cloud – in 2023. Now NetApp is supplying AFF, StorageGRID, and Trident, a free, open source, fully supported, CSI-compliant storage orchestrator designed for Kubernetes, to GDC. WWT operates internationally and is a premier Google Cloud partner. It was the first partner approved by Google Cloud to operate GDC Hosted sovereign clouds in the United States as a Managed GDC Provider, announced March 2024.
NetApp president Cesar Cernuda said: “For…
