Nuage Networks Supporting OpenStack Icehouse
Nuage Networks announced that its Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) Icehouse plug-in has been tested and included in the OpenStack community’s DriverLog. This allows users to easily understand how VSP is compatible with OpenStack clouds running Icehouse. Additionally, Nuage Networks is is working with Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, to integrate with its upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5, based on the OpenStack Icehouse distribution. This effort brings together industry-leading SDN and cloud enablement technologies with OpenStack Icehouse to continue the advancement of high performing public, private, and hybrid enterprise cloud environments worldwide.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, provides the benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, plus the cloud infrastructure platform of OpenStack providing a stable, reliable, and secure foundation, along with the hardware and application support needed to run in demanding, massive-scale enterprise environments.
“Working closely with a leading SDN supplier like Nuage Networks is critical to building highly reliable networked cloud platforms as part of hardened OpenStack-based solutions,” said Mike Werner, senior director, Global Ecosystems, Red Hat. “We are pleased to collaborate with the team at Nuage, who have a wealth of expertise in routing and networking standards and can bring the networking capabilities of some the largest networks in the world to cloud application delivery in the enterprise datacenter environment.”
Nuage Networks VSP provides datacenter network virtualization and automation that transforms enterprise datacenters into dynamic environments that instantaneously establish the network services required to deliver cloud applications across thousands of tenants in a policy-driven manner..
“In collaborating with Red Hat, a market leader in open source cloud solutions, we believe we have the best cloud solution for enterprises,” said Sunil Khandekar, CEO of Nuage Networks. “Our work with Red Hat continues to fuel the success Nuage has achieved over the past year, helping customers migrate their infrastructure and workloads to support hybrid environments as they accelerate migration to the cloud.
