 "Red Hat Strengthens Its OpenStack Partner Ecosystem")
Red Hat, Inc, the global provider of open source solutions, has announced significant momentum and milestones for its Red Hat OpenStack partner ecosystem. The Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network has graduated from its early adopter program and now boasts more than 100 global technology industry leaders as members, including Bull, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Juniper Networks, Lenovo, Lockheed Martin, NEC, NetApp, Symantec, and Wipro. Red Hat also announced the immediate availability of the Red Hat OpenStack Certification, and the Red Hat Certified Solution Marketplace, a directory of technologies and products which have been certified by Red Hat and are designed to optimise all offerings that include Red Hat OpenStack.
Since its launch eleven years ago, customers have valued the broad ecosystem Red Hat created around Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The robust ecosystem demonstrates Red Hat’s ongoing commitment to maintain several multifaceted customer benefits, including a long and stable product lifecycle; tested and secure enterprise-grade solutions; and robust integration through standard interfaces and APIs. Red Hat continues to cultivate the value of this ecosystem with its partners, and with its growing and already strong Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network, is aiming to extend the same value into the realm of OpenStack solutions. Through the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network and the availability certified solutions for Red Hat OpenStack, Red Hat is working to bring customers the same value and benefits they have found through Red Hat’s existing ecosystems.
The Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network is designed for commercial organisations that offer hardware, software and services for customers to implement cloud infrastructure solutions powered by Red Hat OpenStack. The program offers partners the opportunity to gain the necessary expertise with Red Hat OpenStack technologies through access to Red Hat OpenStack releases and developer support, as well as key resources needed to test, certify and publish solutions that leverage the Red Hat OpenStack distribution. The program, which initially launched in April as an early adopter project, now includes all partner types including independent hardware vendors (IHVs), original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners, independent software vendors (ISVs), and system integrators who are joining the program to provide certified solutions and launch their own practices to support customer deployments.
As part of this announcement, IBM joins Cisco and Intel as Alliance Partners in the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network.
In addition to momentum for its OpenStack partner ecosystem, Red Hat announced availability of Red Hat OpenStack Certification. Red Hat OpenStack Certification helps customers identify third-party solutions that have been tested and certified with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform as well as Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure. Partners use the Red Hat OpenStack Certification Test Suite to certify either with a single service of OpenStack such as Block Storage (Cinder), Object Storage (Swift) or Networking (formerly known as Quantum), or with the entire set of Red Hat OpenStack technologies.
Paul Cormier, President, Products and Technologies, Red Hat, said, “The industry is rallying around Red Hat’s OpenStack strategy and vision. Since our earliest days with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we have proven our ability to build strong, broad-reaching ecosystems that offer customers true choice. By offering a stable target for partners to certify against, we’re also bringing peace of mind to customers implementing an OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure. Choice and confidence are what we are aiming to build around Red Hat OpenStack, and I’m enthusiastic about the industry’s initial response and support.”
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