Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform is recognized for open
standards and enterprise ready technology to meet communication service
providers' NFV requirements
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Alcatel-Lucent, a company at the
forefront of the move to the cloud for global telecommunications
companies, will deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform based
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), as
the common platform for its Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
solution, CloudBand.
NFV solutions use virtualization technology to consolidate several
network equipment types on industry-standard high volume servers,
switches, and storage. Red Hat will be part of Alcatel-Lucent's
CloudBand NFV platform, which offers a new way to design, deploy and
manage networking services, supporting a flexible network infrastructure
needed to move complex applications and services to the cloud.
Alcatel-Lucent specifically chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform for use in managing CloudBand Nodes, the turn-key, all-in-one
compute, storage and network node system that interfaces with the
CloudBand Management System, along with any other OpenStack-enabled
nodes.
Additionally, Red Hat was selected for its ability to enable faster,
open innovation through contribution in new upstream OpenStack projects.
This collaboration is a product of Alcatel-Lucent's successful CloudBand
Ecosystem Program and Red Hat's ISV
Partner Program in which Alcatel-Lucent holds Premier status.
The Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand node also leverages the previously
announced partnership between Red Hat and Alcatel-Lucent's
software-defined networking (SDN) venture, Nuage
Networks, to provide a single automatically deployable stack
that includes Nuage SDN, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform,
virtual storage and management tools.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform builds on Red Hat's ten year
commitment to building an industry-leading partner ecosystem for
compute, storage and networking that delivers the highest levels of
industry-standard compatibility for an enterprise-ready OpenStack
solution. Since introducing its Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure
Partner Network in Spring 2013, Red Hat has built the industry's largest
ecosystem in support of commercial OpenStack deployments.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization and OpenStack,
Red Hat
"Service providers in today's environment want better control over their
products and services delivered to their customers, including not being
tied to proprietary equipment, being able to lower CapEx and OpEx,
improve time-to-market and deliver innovative and competitive products
and services. We're delighted that Red Hat's technology has been
recognized as best-in-class in the industry for the CloudBand NFV
platform and excited that our strength in bringing open source
innovation from projects to enterprise-ready products will offer value
to all the vendors hosting applications on CloudBand."
Dor Skuler, vice president and general manager, CloudBand Business
Unit, Alcatel-Lucent
"Alcatel-Lucent is dedicated to working with service providers as they
begin to move quickly towards the cloud. Working with Red Hat, the major
contributor to OpenStack, gives us both the visibility and ability to
provide input to OpenStack upstream projects, in order to highlight
specific stringent requirements networks demand. The insight that both
Alcatel and Red Hat bring - from ETSI NFV to OpenStack - and the
CloudBand NFV platform is essential to drive the telecommunications
industry forward."
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