OpenStack-based clouds enable carriers to host and orchestrate
Virtualized Network Functions
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, and eNovance, a global leader in the open source cloud
computing market, today announced a new collaboration to drive Network
Functions Virtualization (NFV) and telecommunications innovations into
OpenStack. The upstream alliance is aimed at delivering the industry's
most complete, carrier-grade telecommunications offering based on Linux,
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), and OpenStack.
Red Hat and eNovance plan to collaborate with the open source community
and contribute NFV innovations to the OpenStack upstream, including work
on Linux, KVM and libvirt enhancements to create an efficient VM for
virtualized network functions (VNFs), and on accelerated packet
processing and service chaining. The intended result is that all
OpenStack community participants will benefit from the output of Red
Hat's and eNovance's open NFV collaboration, as compared to a
proprietary extensions add-on approach resulting in further vendor
lock-in.
In November 2013 at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong, Red Hat and
eNovance announced that the companies were partnering
to deliver OpenStack integration services to joint customers around
the world. Red Hat has been the number one contributor to OpenStack for
the past three community releases, while eNovance has consistently
ranked as one of the top ten contributors. The scope of these upstream
contributions reflect the two companies combined OpenStack domain
expertise, which enables the collaboration to deliver unique and
compelling value to end customers.
In addition to the upstream collaboration, Red Hat and eNovance are
announcing an Early Adopter Program for carriers and telecommunications
service providers interested in exploring the benefits of
OpenStack-based clouds for NFV projects. The goal of the program is to
work with independent hardware (IHVs) and software vendors (ISVs) to
test, quality assure and certify complete solutions aiming to bring
telecommunications service providers significant cost savings through
the use of commodity compute, network and storage equipment.
Telecommunication service provider end customers can benefit from a
comprehensive NFV-capable Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
that enables them to be more agile and innovative when it comes to
development of applications, and mobile applications in particular, that
require VNF.
Supporting Quotes
Nick Barcet, vice president, Products, eNovance
"The modern form of NFV standardization and interoperability should come
from a common open source code base, thereby eliminating an innovation
bottleneck from slow moving standards bodies and avoiding proprietary
lock-in. Both Red Hat and eNovance are deeply committed to the upstream
OpenStack community and we believe that fracturing upstream into
proprietary forks undermines the fundamental value of collaborative
development. With nearly every NFV vendor coming with its own version of
OpenStack and requirements, carriers should demand a robust and scalable
common underlying infrastructure capable for distributing VNF where and
when needed."
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization and OpenStack,
Red Hat
"NFV and OpenStack are collaborating with the aim of revolutionizing the
way telecommunications networks are being built and operated. With the
growing dominance of KVM in NFV and telecommunications, driving upstream
improvements will be a key focus of our collaboration with eNovance. Red
Hat has deep experience in the telecommunications industry, with global
communications service providers among the leading adopters of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, and now Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. By bridging that experience with
eNovance's expertise and unique tools and methodology on interfacing
various types of cloud applications with OpenStack, we believe that our
companies are bringing a unique value proposition to carriers looking to
modernize their network infrastructure."
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About eNovance
eNovance is the European leader and a major global technology player in
the open cloud computing software market. The company deploys its
services around two lines of business. The first one is around the
development, integration, operation and support of cloud computing
infrastructure for Private Cloud uses or for Public Cloud Services
Providers. The second line of business is on distributing and managing
critical web applications on the world's largest Public Clouds such as
AWS, Google Compute Engine, RackSpace, Cloudwatt and more. Heavily
investing in R & D, eNovance has become in less than three years the 7th
largest global contributor to the OpenStack initiative and the only
European company to serve on the board of directors of the foundation
alongside Rackspace, RedHat, Cisco or HP. With customers and employees
globally distributed, eNovance is now a partner of choice for the
deployment of critical production applications in the cloud. For more
information: www.enovance.com
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Anna Eusebio, 919-754-4519
aeusebio@redhat.com
or
eNovance
Annie
Potvin, 514-781-6849
annie.potvin@enovance.com
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