Cloud Computing: Mirantis Forges Closer Ties with SUSE to Promote OpenStack

August 9, 2016 Off By David

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Christopher Tozzi.

Mirantis wants to become the "one-stop shop" for users of OpenStack on enterprise Linux. The company this week announced a new partnership with SUSE, adding another Linux option alongside its existing Red Hat and CentOS offerings. Mirantis is a major distributor of OpenStack, the open source platform for building cloud infrastructure on top of a Linux-based operating system.

Mirantis seeks to distinguish itself in the crowded OpenStack market by delivering what it calls a "pure-play" OpenStack distribution, allowing users to deploy any type of Linux platform in conjunction with OpenStack. While Mirantis can support any Linux distribution, it has now forged closer ties with SUSE, which develops SUSE Linux Enterprise Server…

On Tuesday, the companies announced a partnership that aims "to optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Mirantis OpenStack," according to a statement from Mirantis…

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