Formal launch of Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner
Network and Red Hat OpenStack Certification availability mark major
milestones in fulfilling Red Hat's vision of creating broad ecosystem
around Red Hat OpenStack
RALEIGH, N.C. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat Summit 2013
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced significant momentum and milestones for its
Red Hat OpenStack partner ecosystem. The Red Hat OpenStack Cloud
Infrastructure Partner Network has graduated from its early adopter
program and now boasts more than 100 global technology industry leaders
as members, including Bull, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Juniper Networks,
Lenovo, Lockheed Martin, NEC, NetApp, Symantec, and Wipro. Red Hat also
announced the immediate availability of the Red Hat OpenStack
Certification, and the Red Hat Certified Solution Marketplace, a
directory of technologies and products which have been certified by Red
Hat and are designed to optimize all offerings that include Red Hat
OpenStack.
Since its launch eleven years ago, customers have valued the broad
ecosystem Red Hat created around Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The robust
ecosystem demonstrates Red Hat's ongoing commitment to maintain several
multifaceted customer benefits, including a long and stable product
lifecycle; tested and secure enterprise-grade solutions; and robust
integration through standard interfaces and APIs. Red Hat continues to
cultivate the value of this ecosystem with its partners, and with its
growing and already strong Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure
Partner Network, is aiming to extend the same value into the realm of
OpenStack solutions. Through the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure
Partner Network and the availability certified solutions for Red Hat
OpenStack, Red Hat is working to bring customers the same value and
benefits they have found through Red Hat's existing ecosystems.
The Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network is designed
for commercial organizations that offer hardware, software and services
for customers to implement cloud infrastructure solutions powered by Red
Hat OpenStack. The program offers partners the opportunity to gain the
necessary expertise with Red Hat OpenStack technologies through access
to Red Hat OpenStack releases and developer support, as well as key
resources needed to test, certify and publish solutions that leverage
the Red Hat OpenStack distribution. The program, which initially
launched in April as an early adopter project, now includes all partner
types including independent hardware vendors (IHVs), original equipment
manufacturer (OEM) partners, independent software vendors (ISVs), and
system integrators who are joining the program to provide certified
solutions and launch their own practices to support customer deployments.
As part of today's announcement, IBM joins Cisco and Intel as Alliance
Partners in the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network.
Red Hat OpenStack Certification
In addition to momentum for its OpenStack partner ecosystem, Red Hat
today announced availability of Red Hat OpenStack Certification. Red Hat
OpenStack Certification helps customers identify third-party solutions
that have been tested and certified with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform as well as Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure. Partners use
the Red Hat OpenStack Certification Test Suite to certify either with a
single service of OpenStack such as Block Storage (Cinder), Object
Storage (Swift) or Networking (formerly known as Quantum), or with the
entire set of Red Hat OpenStack technologies. Red Hat OpenStack
Certification for OpenStack Compute (Nova) is available immediately.
Certification for OpenStack Networking or for OpenStack Storage is
expected to be available in the coming weeks.
In addition to the products achieving Red Hat OpenStack Certification,
Red Hat is bringing its robust Red Hat Enterprise Linux ecosystem to Red
Hat OpenStack. As of today's announcement, more than 4,000 compute
servers and 13,000 applications that are currently certified for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux are moving to certification for the Red Hat Enterprise
Linux OpenStack Platform.
Red Hat Certified Solution Marketplace
Launched today, the Red Hat Certified Solution Marketplace brings choice
and the full power of Red Hat's OpenStack ecosystem to customers. With
the Red Hat Certified Solution Marketplace, customers will be able to
easily find technologies and solutions that have achieved Certification
with Red Hat OpenStack, or with other products in Red Hat's open hybrid
cloud portfolio. The Red Hat Certified Solution Marketplace already
includes more than 500 products that have been certified as OpenStack
compute (Nova) compatible, from technology industry leaders such as
Cisco, Dell, HP, and IBM. These solutions not only complement and expand
the cloud infrastructure offerings based on Red Hat OpenStack, but also
represent a broad range of enterprise applications from Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and Red Hat JBoss Middleware partners.
Availability
All interested companies are invited to apply to become a part of the
Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network as well as
participate in the Red Hat OpenStack Certification process.
The Red Hat Certified Solution Marketplace, and its more than 500 launch
solutions, is available immediately. The Marketplace is currently in
beta, with general availability planned for Fall 2013.
Supporting Quotes
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat
"The
industry is rallying around Red Hat's OpenStack strategy and vision.
Since our earliest days with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we have proven
our ability to build strong, broad-reaching ecosystems that offer
customers true choice. By offering a stable target for partners to
certify against, we're also bringing peace of mind to customers
implementing an OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure. Choice and
confidence are what we are aiming to build around Red Hat OpenStack, and
I'm enthusiastic about the industry's initial response and support."
Jean Staten Healy, worldwide cross Linux marketing and open
virtualization, IBM
"Growing support for OpenStack will help
companies accelerate their cloud computing initiatives by providing them
with trusted partners and open technologies that are proven ready for
the latest workloads. IBM's collaboration with Red Hat and the OpenStack
ecosystem is another step forward to provide clients with the
flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and security they demand for cloud
computing."
Aruna Ravichandran, vice president, product and solutions marketing,
Software Solutions Division at Juniper Networks
"Juniper
Networks is pleased to be a member of the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud
Infrastructure Partner Network as it directly aligns with our vision for
providing customers with standards-based solutions. As an industry
leader in open, programmable networks, we've set a clear vision for how
software-defined networks will play a transformational role in
high-performance networking, and soon we will be delivering advanced
OpenStack-powered cloud solutions to market that enable our customers to
increase their cost-efficiency, flexibility and agility as they
accelerate their transition to the cloud."
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