Red Hat Expands Cloud Computing Partnership with NTT Communications
Leading communications provider extends use of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as part of its cloud offering
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that NTT Communications, one of the largest
telecommunications companies in the world, has expanded its use of Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the
foundation of its cloud computing and hosting service offering, Biz
Hosting Basic.
Red Hat and NTT Communications first partnered in the cloud in April
2010 with NTT Communications joining Red Hat's growing cloud ecosystem
as a Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud Provider. As part of this
partnership, NTT Communications selected Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization as the foundational virtualization layer for its cloud,
and offered Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a guest operating system on the
Biz Hosting Basic service.
Today, NTT Communications expands its usage of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization, based on Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology.
For customers choosing to expand their growth in the cloud, more Red Hat
Enterprise Linux guests are also now available to NTT Communications
customers, offering enterprise-grade security, scalability and services
consistent with what on-premise customers of Red Hat receive.
"We selected Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as the foundation for our
Biz Hosting Basic cloud service at launch last year because of its high
availability, reliability, security and scalability," said Mamoru
Murakami, director of Ubiquitous Communication Department, Business
Network Services Division at NTT Communications. "We have seen such
success with this deployment with our cloud service that we've greatly
expanded our use of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to further
leverage the solution's performance, security and scalability in an
effort to provide an ideal cloud solution to our customers."
"As part of our growing cloud partnership with NTT Communications, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux has become an important security construct on Biz
Hosting Basic, which is an excellent proof point in Red Hat Enterprise
Linux's ability to meet the stringent security requirements of both on-
and off-premise cloud deployments in today's computing environments,"
said Scott Crenshaw, vice president and general manager, Cloud Business
at Red Hat. "NTT Communications' expanded use of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization also signals its strength as a foundation for cloud
deployments. We look forward to continuing to help NTT Communications
and its cloud customers innovate with cloud technology based on Red Hat
solutions."
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About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an
S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices
spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors
delivering value in Enterprise Software for seven consecutive years in
the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides
high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization, applications,
management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red
Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its
customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.
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