Two OpenStack leaders partner to optimize Fuel for Red Hat OpenStack
and offer implementation services to customers
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat Summit
Mirantis,
the largest OpenStack systems integrator, and Red
Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that the two companies will
collaborate to optimize Mirantis' Fuel tools for deployment of Red Hat
OpenStack, and deliver OpenStack implementation and integration services
to joint customers.
Red Hat OpenStack is a highly scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS) product that delivers an open, flexible, and enterprise-ready
private cloud foundation built on the community OpenStack project and
integrated with and optimized for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Mirantis
offers tools and services for customers to deploy production-grade
OpenStack clouds, including Fuel, a tool for management and deployment
of OpenStack clouds.
Plans for this collaboration include:
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Through engineering alignment between Red Hat and Mirantis, Fuel will
be optimized to deliver point and click, visual deployment, and
management of Red Hat OpenStack;
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Mirantis' and Red Hat's professional services organizations will work
together to deliver comprehensive OpenStack consulting and services,
including services for OpenStack deployment and integration;
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Fuel and Red Hat OpenStack will support a joint reference architecture
designed by Mirantis and Red Hat for enterprise use; and
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Red Hat and Mirantis will develop mutual customer support processes
and case management.
This new development is part of a growing collaboration between the two
firms:
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Earlier this month, Red
Hat became an investor in Mirantis, along with Ericsson,
SAP Ventures, and WestSummit Capital, in an approximately $10 million
Series A financing;
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In April, Red Hat introduced Mirantis as one of the first members of
the Red
Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network; and
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Also in April, the two companies, along with Hortonworks, announced
collaboration on Project Savanna, a program initiated by
Mirantis to deliver Apache Hadoop on OpenStack.
"The combination of Red Hat and Mirantis working together with customers
to optimize OpenStack should substantially increase the speed of
adoption, success, and overall confidence of companies in using the Red
Hat OpenStack distribution and Mirantis' services and tools," noted
Adrian Ionel, president and CEO of Mirantis.
"Mirantis' implementation tools and services, as well as their track
record in building production OpenStack clouds, are very complementary
to Red Hat's focus on providing an enterprise-ready OpenStack
distribution, and we're excited about collaborating to help accelerate
the adoption of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure solutions," noted Radhesh
Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization, Red Hat.
"Our collaboration with Red Hat is a testament to our mutual commitment
and vision to bring OpenStack to enterprise customers," continued Ionel.
"By integrating technology and services, Mirantis and Red Hat intend to
deliver a seamless experience and lifecycle support to enterprise
OpenStack customers."
"Fuel continues to support several OpenStack distributions and a growing
number of infrastructure components. At the same time, we believe that
Red Hat's demonstrated commitment to OpenStack and its track record in
open source will make them the distribution of choice for production
environments," explained Boris Renski, Mirantis co-founder and executive
vice president.
About Mirantis
Mirantis
delivers all the tools, services, training and support necessary to
succeed with production-grade OpenStack. Its focus is vendor-independent
cloud implementation uncompromised by opaque hooks or proprietary
packaging. Customers include AT&T, Cisco WebEx, Dell, The Gap, NASA, and
PayPal.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red
Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software
solutions, taking a community-powered approach to reliable and
high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization
technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and
consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of
enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create
relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and
prepare customers for the future of IT.
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or
Mirantis
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Myers, 978-369-6336
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