Google Cloud Platform has become an IBM Eligible Public Cloud, allowing customers to run most popular IBM software SKUs on Google Compute Engine using existing licenses.

IBM software is also available as part of the company’s own Softlayer and Bluemix public cloud offerings, as well as through AWS’ EC2 and Dedicated Instances, and Microsoft’s Azure Virtual Machines.

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“Under IBM’s Bring Your Own Software License policy (BYOSL), customers who have licensed, or wish to license, IBM software through either Passport Advantage or an authorized reseller, may now run that software on Compute Engine,” Chuck Coulson, head of global technology partnerships at Google, said in a blog post. 

“This applies to the majority of IBM’s vast catalog of software – everything from middleware and DevOps products (Websphere, MQ Series, DataPower, Tivoli) to data and analytics offerings (DB2, Informix, Cloudant, Cognos, BigInsights).”

Coulson also asked developers to let the company know which types of software they wanted to use the most, so those could be optimized for Compute Engine.

Last month, Google unveiled a number of upgrades to its cloud service, namely several new APIs and GPU support. Starting early next year, Google will offer Nvidia Tesla P100, Tesla K80 and AMD FirePro S9300 x2 GPU instances.

November also saw the company launch a cloud region in Japan, as it prepares for aggressive expansion next year.