Red Hat Extends OpenStack Ecosystem

June 28, 2015 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from TheVarGuy.  Author: Mike Vizard.

At the Red Hat 2015 Summit this week Red Hat (RHT) extended the reach and scope of its OpenStack ecosystem via alliances with third-party vendors that should have a significant impact on its relationships all across the channel.

Via a new alliances with Vantrix, a provider of storage systems optimized for video content, and an expansion of its relationship with Super Micro Computer, Red Hat is now making greater use of OEM partnerships to bring open source storage technologies such as Ceph and Gluster to market…


In fact, Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager for Storage at Red Hat, said such partnerships will be critical to the company’s overall OpenStack strategy for enabling the building and managing of private clouds based on OpenStack cloud management framework…

Read more from the source @ http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/062615/red-hat-extends-openstack-ecosystem