Mirantis Launches Vendor Database for OpenStack Cloud Computing
May 12, 2014
Grazed from TheVarGuy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.
Mirantis is aiming to make it easier for enterprises to deploy OpenStack, the open source infrastructure for cloud computing. This week, the company launched a Web-based database listing vendors who offer OpenStack-compatible solutions. The database is available now as a Web-based dashboard on Mirantis’s website. The company derived the information on OpenStack compatibility from the OpenStack DriverLog, which keeps track of drivers and plugins that support OpenStack.
The dashboard does more than simply aggregate information from DriverLog into a convenient interface, however. It also offers configuration instructions for vendors’ products, information on whether a vendor’s OpenStack products have passed or failed OpenStack integration tests and contact information for vendors…
Mirantis’s goal in releasing the dashboard, according to Boris Renski, the company’s co-founder and EVP, is to promote "open process and transparency in addressing vendor compatibility," which it sees as "key to the success of the OpenStack community."…
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