International Data Corporation (IDC), the premier global provider of market intelligence, conducted interviews with organizations using Prisma^® Cloud to secure and support workloads running on Google Cloud. 

Customers reported achieving significant gains in security and risk minimization for their Google Cloud environments and a boost in confidence and visibility that made it easier to capitalize on the business platform opportunities in Google Cloud.

Prisma Cloud for Google Cloud: IDC Did the Math

Based on interviews with Prisma Cloud for Google Cloud users, IDC calculates that they will realize benefits worth an annual average of $264,100 per 100 Google Cloud virtual machines (VMs) ($1.6 million per interviewed organization) by:

• Improving security and compliance capabilities, which reduces the risk associated with impactful security events and minimizes productivity costs associated with such incidents.
• Making cloud security and compliance teams significantly more efficient.
• Optimizing use of Google Cloud as a business platform, thus reducing direct spend and capturing development and other productivity gains.
• Completing migrations to Google Cloud faster, which reduces risk associated with migrations and allows organizations to capture benefits associated with Google Cloud use at an earlier time.

To see how Prisma Cloud for Google Cloud customers find easy ways to add real business value, get the feedback and analysis in IDC’s “Business Value of Prisma Cloud for Google Cloud” report.