Mirantis, Intel Announce OpenStack Partnership

Mirantis has announced a partnership with Intel (News - Alert) to promote the OpenStack cloud platform with both technology and financial investment.

"With Intel as our partner, we'll show the world that open design, open development and open licensing is the future of cloud infrastructure software. Mirantis' goal is to make OpenStack the best way to deliver cloud software, surpassing any proprietary solutions," said Alex Freedland, co-founder and president of Mirantis. "Every industry is being disrupted by software. Smart enterprises are embracing the cloud to grow top line revenues and get new services to market faster. Mirantis is the only vendor 100 percent committed to only OpenStack."

OpenStack is, as the name suggests, a complete stack of cloud software that’s open source, including compute, storage and networking.

Intel Capital (News - Alert) has led a funding round of $100 million, along with Goldman Sachs, August Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Ericsson, Sapphire Ventures (formerly SAP Ventures) and WestSummit Capital.

“Our investment in Mirantis is the next step in bringing open cloud infrastructure to the entire industry as part of Intel's 'Cloud for All' initiative," said Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the data center Group at Intel. "As enterprises embrace public, private and hybrid cloud strategies, they need choices in their infrastructure software. OpenStack is an ideal open solution for cloud-native applications and services, and our collaboration with Mirantis is well placed to ensure the delivery of critical new enterprise features helping to create tens of thousands of clouds."

Open source software has already been accepted in the enterprise data center in the form of Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP or LAMP stack for serving up Web applications. OpenStack allows enterprise companies to deploy private and public clouds.

Some of Mirantis’ clients include a national retailer, a national credit card company, an Asian telecommunications company and a major U.S. bank. All of them used OpenStack to cut operational costs and launch new services.