Google and VMware are finally working together in the cloud

Google Cloud appears to be opening up to a new series of cooperation with some potentially surprising new partnerships that could see it attract more customers who have loyalties to other brands, too.

According to a Google Open Source Blog post, Google Cloud Engine customers can now choose to use VMWare ESXi as their underlying hypervisor where they were previously required to use the open-source KVM hypervisor. 

Google explains that new users can, “migrate…