On November 18, 2019, Google announced it has acquired CloudSimple, a leading provider of secure, high performance, dedicated environments to run VMware workloads in the cloud, building on an existing partnership that was announced earlier in July 2019. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is representing CloudSimple in the transaction. Wilson Sonsini incorporated CloudSimple in 2016 and has represented the company continuously since that time.

CloudSimple, which is based in Santa Clara, California, offers software which enables companies to run computing workloads that are based on VMware’s widely-used server virtualization technology. The CloudSimple platform transforms bare-metal resources in public cloud data centers into “as-a-service” private clouds which can be fast-provisioned in an automated fashion. These private clouds are managed through a single portal, enabling customers to easily access all the public cloud services while benefiting from scalable monitoring, alerting, fault tolerance, and 24x7 global support of their private clouds.

The Wilson Sonsini team representing CloudSimple in the transaction includes:

Corporate/M&A
Raj Judge, Partner
Doug Schnell, Partner
Melinda Douglass, Of Counsel
Brendan Mahan, Associate
Brandon Walker, Associate
Layan Khrais, Associate

Technology Transactions
James Clessuras, Partner
Alan Pate, Associate
Barclay Oudersluys, Associate

Employee Benefits and Compensation
Sriram Krishnamurthy, Partner
Matthew Norgard, Associate

Tax
Greg Broome, Partner
Sunny Dhaliwal, Associate

Litigation
Matt Gorman, Associate

For more information, please see Google’s press release and CloudSimple CEO Guru Pangal’s blog post.