CIQ Unveils Secure Solutions for Regulated Industries at Google Cloud Next '24

Elevating security in the cloud: Next step in companies' two-year collaboration with Google brings secure infrastructure solutions designed for regulated industries to Google Distributed Cloud.

LAS VEGAS, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- GOOGLE NEXT—At Google Cloud Next '24, CIQ announced an expansion of their partnership with Google Cloud, introducing new solutions for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) tailored for highly regulated industries that have achieved Google Cloud Ready — Distributed Cloud designation. Customers with heightened security needs can now deploy securely with industry-compliant Rocky Linux environments provided by CIQ for GDC. These new offerings reflect CIQ leadership in highly secure, next-generation software infrastructure amidst a remarkable 500% surge in adoption of CIQ cloud solutions over the past year. CIQ is leading the next generation of software infrastructure for enterprises and the public sector.

Google Distributed Cloud enables customers to build, deploy and scale modern industry and public sector applications on-premises with AI-ready, modern infrastructure, ensuring data security and enabling agile developer workflows across edge locations and data centers. The new GDC-enabled program works with partners to validate their solutions by tuning and enhancing existing integrations and features to better support customer use cases, which can help customers identify software solutions that are compatible with GDC more quickly.

Our collaboration with Google Cloud delivers the fortified infrastructure required by U.S. government agencies for cloud deployments, benefitting our regulated enterprise customers across many industries, including financial services, life sciences, retail, telecommunications and manufacturing.

"At CIQ, our customers in highly regulated industries expect the highest levels of security and compliance for their cloud operations," affirmed Colin VanderSmith, vice president of product management at CIQ. "Our collaboration with Google Cloud delivers the fortified infrastructure required by U.S. government agencies for cloud deployments, benefitting our regulated enterprise customers across many industries, including financial services, life sciences, retail, telecommunications and manufacturing. Together, we are setting new standards for security, compliance and workload performance including AI, ML and data analytics."

CIQ is a federally approved vendor that specializes in providing highly secure, hardened infrastructure solutions that meet the stringent requirements of various industries and governmental agencies. The company's expertise lies in the development, testing, delivery, certification and support of Rocky Linux environments and tools for U.S. government workloads, ensuring compliance with governance, security and regulatory policy frameworks.

CIQ and Google Cloud began working together in 2022 to provide customers with a best-in-class enterprise-grade supported experience for Rocky Linux on Google Cloud. Today this partnership enables customers to optimize networking performance on compute engine infrastructure, while retaining bug-for-bug compatibility with community Rocky Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Recently, the two companies designed a Cloud Migration program to help CentOS users move securely and easily to Rocky Linux on Google Cloud. CIQ solutions are equally valuable to any organization migrating to Rocky Linux from any enterprise Linux distribution. CIQ is a partner level Google Cloud partner for the build engagement model within Google Cloud Partner Advantage, leveraging close collaboration with Google Cloud product and engineering teams to accelerate customer adoption and migrations to Google Cloud.

CIQ at Google Cloud Next Meet the CIQ team at Google Cloud Next at booth #231 April 9-11, 2024 in Las Vegas to learn more and see what the company is building for Google customers.