"The biggest advantage for us as a business is that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a modern platform and a modern way of thinking. In addition, when we delved into the specifics of services such as BigQuery, we found they were market leaders in terms of functionality and performance. GCP has given us the confidence to build our business and work with high calibre partners and we look forward to continue working with Google to expand into new markets in the future."

— Chris Dance, CEO and Co-founder at PaperCut

"The new Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Region would provide a wealth of opportunities for private and public agencies alike. So we can continue to provide excellence in customer service and better value for taxpayers, we are continuing to look for new and more innovative ways to work. Google's web-first approach has meant we have been able to easily rollout technologies such as G Suite quickly and seamlessly across our business, improving customer facing assets like our Self Service platform. Our early access to Google's Cloud Platform has allowed us to demonstrate the value it could add to our business, and we are excited at the potential opportunities presented by the new GCP Region offering."

— Serdar Avsar, Executive Director of Business Architecture and Technology at Service NSW

"Fairfax is excited to see the launch of the Australian Google Cloud Platform region, providing a leading set of capabilities in-region. Google's depth of engineering excellence in the big data and machine learning space is a particular area of interest for us, as we look to innovate in the media domain. This launch is a sign of Google's commitment to innovation in the Australian cloud computing market and will allow Fairfax to grow and invest further in GCP."

— Damian Cronan, CTO of Fairfax Metro at Fairfax Media

"The regional expansion of Google Cloud Platform to Australia will help enable PwC's rapidly growing need to experiment and innovate and will further extend our work with Google Cloud. It not only provides a reliable and resilient platform that can support our firm's core technology needs, it also makes available to us, GCP's market leading technologies and capabilities to support the unprecedented demand of our diverse and evolving business."

— Hilda Clune, Chief Information Officer at PwC Australia

"Monash University has one of the most ambitious digital transformation agendas in tertiary education. We're executing our strategy at pace and needed a platform which would give us the scale, flexibility and functionality to respond rapidly to our development and processing needs. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and in particular App Engine have been a great combination for us and we're very excited at the results we're getting. Having Google Cloud Platform hosted now in Australia is a big bonus."

— Trevor Woods, Chief Information Officer at Monash University

"Modern geophysical technologies place a huge demand on supercomputing resources. Woodside utilises Google Cloud as an on-demand solution for our large computing requirements. This has allowed us to push technological boundaries and dramatically reduce turnaround time."

— Sean Salter, VP Technology at Woodside Energy