Google Cloud plans to acquire enterprise cloud software firm D2iQ: Report

Google is reportedly working to acquire enterprise cloud software company D2iQ for over $250 million. Currently, Google has partnered D2iQ for company’s Cloud Platform and G Suite service, and acquiring D2iQ could help Google compete with Amazon.

“Google originally developed Kubernetes, the open source server-management technology that D2iQ has integrated into its software offerings,” The Street reported on Monday.

D2iQ investors include Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Khosla Ventures, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Microsoft, Andreessen Horowitz and T. Rowe Price Associates.

Earlier this month, D2iQ was awarded a US Department of Defense Enterprise Software Initiative contract.