Samsung SDS expands Google Cloud AI partnership

Samsung SDS expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to sell AI, cloud, and security services to regulated sectors such as public services and finance.

The companies said they will use Google Distributed Cloud for customers that need data localization, low latency, and resilient systems.

Samsung SDS plans to add Gemini Enterprise to its Samsung Cloud Platform for corporate AI tools.

They also plan to combine Google Cloud Platform with Samsung SDS’ managed services, and integrate Google’s Wiz security platform with Samsung SDS’ security operations for threat detection and response.

🔗 Source: The Korea Times

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Implications, context, and why it matters.

Google deal builds on a growth area for Samsung SDS

The agreement with Google extends a business line that is already gaining ground, rather than opening a new path.
Samsung SDS’s cloud unit was its fastest-growing business in 2025. Revenue rose 15.4% to 2.7 trillion won (US$1.9 billion) 1.
Work for financial institutions and public agencies fueled that increase 1.
The deal also broadens Samsung SDS’s AI lineup. Samsung SDS said it signed a ChatGPT Enterprise reseller partnership agreement with OpenAI in December 2025, which it described as the first of its kind among Korean companies 1.

A model for older IT firms in the AI market

The partnership offers a route for established IT service companies to move toward businesses with better margins as Samsung SDS’s logistics unit stalls. That business posted a 0.5% revenue drop in 2025 1.
Deals with Google and OpenAI let Samsung SDS act as an AI integrator for enterprise customers. That gives clients platform options and helps them avoid vendor lock-in.
For Google, the tie-up opens a path into South Korea’s regulated government market. Samsung SDS has provided Brity Works and Brity Copilot, its workplace collaboration and AI assistant tools, in pilot services to three government organizations since November 2025 1.