Early Adopter Partners Join Red Hat's OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure
Partner Network
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced partner support for its Red Hat OpenStack
distribution, which graduated
from a preview version to an Early Adopter Program today. In conjunction
with this, Red Hat also announced the establishment of its Red Hat
OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network, focused on building a
robust ecosystem around the Red Hat OpenStack distribution and cloud
infrastructure technologies, which is currently accepting nominations
for early adopter partner participation.
The Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network is a
multi-tiered program designed for third-party commercial companies that
offer hardware, software and services for customers to implement cloud
infrastructure solutions powered by Red Hat OpenStack. Building an
ecosystem of third-party technology partners with solutions that have
been tested, certified and supported is an important part of
establishing customer confidence in Red Hat OpenStack. Responding to
this need, a core element of the program is a certification process for
technology partners to integrate and validate their solutions around Red
Hat OpenStack.
The program offers partners the opportunity to gain the necessary
expertise with Red Hat OpenStack technologies, as well as key resources
they need to test, certify and publish their solutions. Partners can
certify with a single component of OpenStack such as Cinder, Swift or
Quantum, or they may choose to certify with the entire set of OpenStack
technologies as supported by Red Hat. As part of the program Red Hat
will provide access to Red Hat OpenStack builds and roadmap, developer
support and a range of go-to-market activities to assist in customer
adoption.
Today hardware, software and services partners can join the program as
an early adopter and gain access to Red Hat OpenStack builds, developer
support and insight into the Red Hat OpenStack certification, which is
slated to be fully available in line with the supported Red Hat
OpenStack enterprise offering that is expected later this year.
The Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network features
three participation levels, in addition to the Alliance Tier:
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Red Hat OpenStack Premier: Unique and enterprise-ready partner
integration with Red Hat OpenStack technologies
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Red Hat OpenStack Advanced: Certified technical compatibility
with Red Hat OpenStack components, including but not limited to
Cinder, Nova and Quantum
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Red Hat OpenStack Ready: Base-level compatibility with Red Hat
OpenStack
Availability
Companies interested in being part of the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud
Infrastructure Partner Network can begin participating as early adopters
today. Technology certification as part of the Program is planned for
later this year.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization, Red Hat
"As we're getting closer to delivering an enterprise-ready OpenStack
offering backed by our award-winning commercial support, it's extremely
important that we collaborate to establish a vibrant ecosystem of
partners with solutions and services that are designed to meet our
customers' needs. We see that partners and customers are looking for
standards to emerge within the OpenStack ecosystem, and Red Hat is here
to deliver stable enterprise targets with which partners can develop,
test and support solutions for joint customers."
Parvesh Sethi, senior vice president, Cisco Services
"We have seen a tremendous interest in and pent-up demand for OpenStack
from a broad range of Cisco's most strategic customers, and we fully
expect OpenStack to be widely adopted. Until now, there have been
limited production-grade fully supported solutions available. We are
therefore excited to be exploring opportunities to expand our
relationship to collaborate closely with Red Hat on the OpenStack cloud
infrastructure."
Billy Cox, director, Intel Datacenter Software Division
"Intel and Red Hat have a long tradition of working together to address
our joint enterprise customers' challenges in the datacenter. Intel is
excited to be an alliance member of the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud
Infrastructure Partner Network and to support Red Hat to deliver an
enterprise-ready OpenStack distribution. We are collaborating with Red
Hat to embed security into Red Hat OpenStack solutions to improve
security through Intel's Trusted Compute Pools-- enabling an automated
hardware root of trust to enforce and monitor cloud servers. Today's
announcement is evidence of the joint commitment to provide secure cloud
infrastructure solutions to customers."
Adrian Ionel, president & CEO, Mirantis
"Mirantis and Red Hat share the goal of building robust,
production-grade OpenStack clouds for demanding customer workloads. We
are excited about our deep integration of services and solutions with
Red Hat as we enhance our strategic partnership as part of the Red Hat
OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Program."
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