Red Hat Announces World's Largest Ecosystem for Commercial OpenStack
Deployments
Certified and Supported Ecosystem Improves Customers' Ability to
Build, Test and Deploy OpenStack Cloud Technologies
HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud
Infrastructure Partner Network ecosystem is now the world's largest
ecosystem for commercial OpenStack deployments. Additionally, Red Hat
announced a new set of offerings as part of the program.
As the recognized leader in enterprise Linux, Red Hat has a long history
of building successful ecosystems designed to provide a standardized,
supported and innovative set of solutions for customers building their
next-generation infrastructure. Thousands of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
ecosystem partners and many of the world's leading enterprises have
benefited from Red Hat's commitment to a long and stable product
lifecycle; tested and secure enterprise-grade solutions; and robust
integration through standard interfaces and APIs. Through the
fast-growing Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network and
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Certification, Red Hat is working to
bring customers the same value and benefits they have found through Red
Hat's existing ecosystems.
The Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network connects both business
and technical resources to third-party technology companies who are
aligning with Red Hat's OpenStack product offerings. Since the launch of
the program in April 2013, hundreds of software, plug-ins, and hardware
systems have been added to the list of certified and supported OpenStack
commercial solutions. The partners building these solutions work closely
with Red Hat to offer customers an enterprise-ready and commercial-grade
OpenStack infrastructure, with complementary technologies integrated
across compute, networking and storage.
With today's announcement, the Red Hat Enterprise OpenStack
Certification, launched in June 2013, has expanded beyond OpenStack
Compute (Nova), OpenStack Networking (Neutron), and OpenStack Block
Storage (Cinder) to include certification protocols for advanced
networking services (Neutron extensions), OpenStack Object Storage
(Swift) and OpenStack Image Storage (Glance). Companies with OpenStack
plug-ins for networking, storage and other OpenStack services work with
the Red Hat certification teams and the Red Hat certification test
suites to provide consistent performance and compatibility with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.
Since June 2013, the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner
Network has experienced 30 percent growth in partner participation, and
more than 900 certified solutions are now included in the Red
Hat Marketplace, which enables customers to easily find technologies
and solutions that have achieved Certification with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux OpenStack Platform, or with other products in Red Hat's open
hybrid cloud portfolio.
Partners who recently achieved new storage, networking and compute
product certifications include Brocade, Huawei, Mellanox, Midokura, NEC,
NetApp, SolidFire, Stratus Technologies, and Unisys. Backed by
collaborative support agreements with Red Hat Advanced partners,
certified solutions enable customers to confidently deploy their
enterprise cloud infrastructure sooner and with the same levels of
confidence they are accustomed to while using physical hardware.
The Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network has also
expanded beyond the initial original equipment manufacturer (OEM),
independent hardware vendor (IHV) and independent software vendor (ISV)
partners to include several additional types of partners including
system integrators (SIs), managed service providers (MSPs) and
communication service providers (CSPs).
Interested candidate 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 Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Certification process. Learn
more about joining the network.
Supporting Quotes
Mike Werner, senior director, Global Ecosystems, Red Hat
"At launch, our goal was to build a strong, broad-reaching OpenStack
ecosystem to bring enterprise customers choice and confidence as they
move to an OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure. Industry support for
Red Hat's OpenStack vision has exceeded our expectations, and we're
proud to now offer the world's largest OpenStack ecosystem in support of
commercial deployments."
Jayrai Nair, senior director, Technology Alliances, EMC Corporation
"EMC is pleased to be participating in the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud
Infrastructure Partner Network. EMC provides the ability for our
customers to deploy world-class storage products that enable them to
transform their IT and accelerate their journey to cloud environments.
We look forward to our collaboration with Red Hat as a member of Red
Hat's OpenStack ecosystem."
Kathleen Kovatch, director of marketing, Intel Open Source Technology
Center
"Intel and Red Hat have been working closely to expand the reach of the
Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network. Today's
announcement is further proof of the success of this program. Our
experience suggests that the key challenges for enterprise IT and Cloud
Service Providers are in the areas of trusted computing, intelligent
workload scheduling and cost-effective storage. Intel and Red Hat will
continue to address them through engineering collaboration, hands-on
workshops and proof-of-concept exercises."
Kevin Deierling, vice president of marketing, Mellanox Technologies
"OpenStack is a compelling solution for our customers to increase their
cost-efficiency and flexibility as they transition to the cloud.
Critical to this transition is a vendor certified and guaranteed
solution. Mellanox is the first InfiniBand and 10/40GbE adapter vendor
to be listed on the Red Hat Certified Solution Marketplace and our
solutions are designed to optimize Red Hat OpenStack based distributions
to allow our mutual customers to confidently deploy an OpenStack cloud,
with proven interoperability and integrated support."
Phil Brotherton, vice president, cloud solutions group, NetApp
"As enterprises use open source technology and expand into the cloud, it
is important to provide a choice of solutions to make this transition
easy. NetApp and Red Hat have been collaborating to deliver the
solutions that help our customers move seamlessly into an OpenStack
cloud environment. Today's announcement is another proof point of how
Red Hat open source software solutions with NetApp unified storage
provides the foundation for meeting current and future needs maximize
business productivity and agility."
Webcast
Red Hat's Mike Werner, senior director, Global Ecosystems, and Bryan
Che, general manager, Cloud, will host a webcast to discuss today's
announcements at 11 a.m. ET. Following remarks, press and analysts are
invited to participate in a question and answer session.
To join the webcast or listen to a replay, visit: https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=17243.
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