Mirantis Secures $100 Million for OpenStack Cloud Development
October 22, 2014
Grazed from TheVarGuy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.
Mirantis, which describes itself as the leading "pure-play" OpenStack cloud computing company, today received its strongest affirmation yet with the announcement of $100 million in series B funding, which makes Mirantis the recipient of the largest investment of its kind in open source history.
Mirantis says the funding will allow it to double the size of its engineering resources for developing its OpenStack distribution, Mirantis OpenStack, which it promotes as the best vendor-neutral, lock-in free OpenStack platform. The financing will also support further investment in the company’s other OpenStack products and services, including its rivate cloud-as-a-service platform, Mirantis OpenStack Express…
The company promises that the investment will benefit general development of the OpenStack code base, too, to which Mirantis is currently the third most important contributor. In a statement, Mirantis said its work on OpenStack will include "particular focus on enterprise-grade reliability and ease of use."…
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