Google closes deal to acquire Wiz • Hacker News Board

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by raw_anon_1111 » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 4:23 PM UTC

PunchTornado wrote: post #4

I don't understand Google's play here. Does it want Wiz to be a unique offer for GCP customers? or they will keep it cloud agnostic?

Thats the entire purpose, the reality is that large corporations are increasingly “multi cloud” and Google wants to have an offering for them and for companies that are on AWS and Azure to be able to move some of their workloads to GCP.

AWS and GCP also made a joint announcement about multi cloud networking for a similar reason

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery...

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by hexfish » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 4:28 PM UTC

debarshri wrote: post #8

Google SecOps (Chronicle) is becoming quite popular among the cybersec world. I think eventually there should be an integration play. It is also a way to create wedge into AWS and Azure customers.

There already is an integration with SecOps: https://www.wiz.io/integrations/google-security-operations and https://docs.cloud.google.com/chronicle/docs/soar/marketplac...

Is that the kind of integration you are refering to?

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by XCSme » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 4:33 PM UTC

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Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by newsclues » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 4:34 PM UTC

PunchTornado wrote: post #4

I don't understand Google's play here. Does it want Wiz to be a unique offer for GCP customers? or they will keep it cloud agnostic?

Make it easy to use google cloud and plug into google ai

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by jtmetcalfe » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 4:36 PM UTC

XCSme wrote: post #13

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I thought it was about home automation at first https://www.wizconnected.com/

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by redbell » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 4:40 PM UTC

Wiz joins Waze & Waymo.. there's something suspicious with the letter W here :)

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by whobre » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 4:43 PM UTC

For a second I thought it was Woz who was joining Google…

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by xnorswap » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 4:44 PM UTC

redbell wrote: post #16

Wiz joins Waze & Waymo.. there's something suspicious with the letter W here :)

W = Winners, it's just science ;)

I bet someone has actually studied the effect of leading letters in startup names and funding & acquisitions, I vaguely seem to remember a story about it in the past.

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by JoshTriplett » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 4:48 PM UTC

redbell wrote: post #16

Wiz joins Waze & Waymo.. there's something suspicious with the letter W here :)

They could put up a page for all three acquisitions, under "www".

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by jcims » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 4:49 PM UTC

PunchTornado wrote: post #4

I don't understand Google's play here. Does it want Wiz to be a unique offer for GCP customers? or they will keep it cloud agnostic?

Wiz customer here, when fully implemented it provides an incredibly detailed and comprehensive view of your infrastructure.

I'm curious how much of that information is going to pass between Wiz and Google Cloud product/sales. It's effectively x-ray vision into some huge workloads running on their competitors.