Mirantis Establishes Center of Excellence for OpenStack
Oct 3, 2011
By Admin
Market demand for OpenStack expertise stimulates new hub for open source cloud deployments
Mountain View, Calif. (PRWEB) October 03, 2011 —
Mirantis, an engineering services company focused on open source application infrastructure, has established a Center of Excellence for OpenStack™ to help companies successfully deploy OpenStack projects.
OpenStack is free open source software, derived from a collaborative software project, to orchestrate and control public and private clouds for IaaS. More than 110 leading companies participate in OpenStack, including AMD, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, Intel, and Microsoft.
With OpenStack clearly becoming a de facto standard platform for building private and public clouds and numerous, venture-backed startups and enterprises looking for OpenStack expertise, the market is clearly underserved.
This new Center will focus exclusively on OpenStack development and deployment. Currently staffed with 20 engineers and architects working on OpenStack projects with customers, Mirantis is already one of the largest OpenStack development organizations. Because of the growing demand, Mirantis expects to expand the engineering team to more than 50 by early spring.
The Center will focus on helping middleware and compute infrastructure providers intelligently integrate their solution offerings with the OpenStack ecosystem of products, as well as offer service-level agreement (SLA) backed deployments of OpenStack to enterprise customers.
California-based Mirantis has been an active member of the OpenStack community since its inception and has contributed multiple code commits to the OpenStack Compute and Identity projects. Mirantis is also one of the key organizers of the Bay Area’s OpenStack user group, hosting the quarterly community events in the Silicon Valley.
“With OpenStack clearly becoming a de facto standard platform for building private and public clouds and numerous, venture-backed startups and enterprises looking for OpenStack expertise, the market is clearly underserved,” explained Boris Renski, EVP and co-founder at Mirantis. “Having served such clients as Cisco, VMWare, Oracle, and others, we know what it takes to provide top-notch talent with special expertise.”
“We are glad to see Mirantis help fill the need for OpenStack expertise and help expand the OpenStack ecosystem, making it easier for those looking to work with OpenStack take advantage of the platform,” said Mark Collier, VP of Rackspace Cloud Builders.
About Mirantis
Mirantis helps organizations achieve digital self determination by giving them complete control over their strategic infrastructure. The company combines intelligent automation and cloud-native expertise for managing and operating virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments. Mirantis lets platform teams deliver a public cloud experience on any infrastructure, from the data center to the edge, with one cohesive cloud experience for complete application and operations portability, a single pane of glass, and automated full-stack lifecycle management, all based on open source using open standard APIs.
Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Inmarsat, PayPal, Societe Generale, and S&P Global. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.
