Dell and Intel bet big on Mirantis OpenStack cloud
January 13, 2013
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Ted Samson.
OpenStack cloud vendor Mirantis has received a hefty $10 million capital injection from the investment arms of Dell, Intel, and WestSummit. The bonanza sets up the company to take on OpenStack rivals such as Rackspace and Piston Computing. What’s more, it could garner greater interest in and support for the OpenStack open source cloud platform, which rivals offerings from former OpenStack supporter Citrix with CloudStack, Microsoft, Eucalyptus, and reigning cloud king Amazon Web Services.
A backer of OpenStack since its birth in 2010, Mirantis claims to have the largest pool of engineering expertise in OpenStack and boasts working on more than 30 deployments over the past 18 months for big-name customers such as NASA, WebEx, Gap, PayPal, and AT&T. The company also has dedicated developers contributing to OpenStack Quantum LBaaS, and it helps run the Bay Area OpenStack user group in Silicon Valley…
"We believe that OpenStack is on its way to becoming a universal control plane for the entire application infrastructure fabric," said Adrian Ionel, president and CEO of Mirantis. Like Mirantis, Intel and Dell are among the founding members of the OpenStack Foundation. Dell, in fact, declared OpenStack its open source cloud platform of choice for both public and private clouds. "OpenStack is a central component of Dell’s cloud strategy, and this investment reflects our company’s commitment to open source platforms that give our customers more options and flexibility," said Nnamdi Orakwue, vice president of Dell Cloud. "The partnership with Mirantis demonstrates our commitment to the community and our goal of becoming a leading contributor to OpenStack."…
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