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June 07, 2013

Mirantis Raises $10M from Red Hat, SAP and Ericsson

OpenStack integrator Mirantis has secured $10 million in new funding from Red Hat, SAP Ventures and Ericsson (News - Alert) bringing total funding to about $20 million. The company uses an efficient delivery model combined with intellectual property to make building a vendor-agnostic OpenStack cloud quick and easy.

The new funding will be used to enhance the engineering roadmap forFuel, its tool for management and deployment of OpenStack clouds, and driving integration with technology and products from Mirantis’ partners.

In addition to the new funding, Mirantis announced an update to Fuel, which will offer a visual, intuitive interface as a single control plane for OpenStack clusters and enables automated hardware discovery and network verification.

“Because Fuel is open source and easy to modify, experienced cloud operators can get maximum flexibility in their OpenStack deployment,” Roman Alekseenkov, Mirantis’ director of product and community, said in a statement. “With this latest update and Fuel Enterprise, we aim to complement this flexibility with ease-of-use for the daily operation of OpenStack clouds.”

Ericsson plans to use OpenStack to move systems and applications to an open cloud platform, with Mirantis’ Fuel technology and services to play a key role, according to Paolo Colella, vice president and head of Consulting and Systems Integration at Ericsson.

“OpenStack is key to our technology roadmap. Like Mirantis, we are focused on building very robust, mission-critical solutions that meet service provider needs,” Colella said. Mirantis offers the ideal combination of technology, engineering talent, and competence to help us accelerate our OpenStack development.”

Red Hat (News - Alert) officials said the company’s investment in Mirantis will support the ongoing collaboration between Red Hat and Mirantis and further accelerate the adoption of OpenStack. In addition, Mirantis has already built an OpenStack cloud for SAP (News - Alert) using Fuel and the companies will explore further use of OpenStack by SAP.

Later this year, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company plans to release Fuel Enterprise, the commercial grade distribution of Fuel that will be available to its subscription customers.

In January, Mirantis garnered $10 million in growth capital financing from high-profile investors including Dell (News - Alert) Ventures, Intel Capital and WestSummit Capital.

Mirantis has been an OpenStack advocate since the beginning of cloud and open source application infrastructure and partnered with Dell and Intel (News - Alert) to form the OpenStack Foundation.




Edited by Ashley Caputo
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