Mirantis, a pure play OpenStack cloud hosting company, has partnered with Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu project, to deliver private cloud solutions based on OpenStack Mirantis and Ubuntu. Both companies will invest in continuous test their compatibility, ensuring that the OpenStack distribution Mirantis works perfectly with Ubuntu.
Under the terms of the agreement, Mirantis will provide enterprise customers a commercial cloud hosting package which will include subscription Mirantis OpenStack with the support of Ubuntu instances and host called cloud. Mirantis and Canonical will be integrate support operations to provide a service level agreement and support seamless escalation path for customers.
The cloud hosting bundle combine the advantages of flexibility and security of the distribution Mirantis OpenStack with the reliability and scalability of Ubuntu.
"As adoption of OpenStack moves proof testing concepts and pilot in production, providing support for the operating systems becomes critical," said Boris Renski, co-founder and director of marketing Mirantis . "Ubuntu is the Linux platform's most popular OpenStack and we expect this partnership to give customers additional confidence in Mirantis OpenStack the use case production. "
Interoperability
Mirantis helped build and deploy some of the largest OpenStack cloud hosting environments to such companies AT & T, Cisco, Symantec, Ericsson, Expedia, Samsung, NASA, NTT Docomo, PayPal and Red Hat. The company is venture capital backed by Intel, Red Hat, SAP Ventures, Ericsson and WestSummit capital.
"as the ladder leading provider of open cloud solutions we are committed to interoperability and freedom from vendor lock-in," said John Zannos VP cloud alliances at Canonical . "We support the Ubuntu Ubuntu OpenStack distribution and, as part of this strategic relationship with Mirantis, support in Ubuntu Mirantis OpenStack. This collaboration will further encourage the adoption of OpenStack in the business, and working together is a testimony to our faith in interoperability and customer choice. "
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