Fujitsu and Mirantis to Deliver Private Managed OpenStack Cloud

Fujitsu, the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company, and Mirantis, the managed open cloud company, have signed a strategic collaboration agreement. This is to help customers adopt open cloud infrastructure based on OpenStack and related open source technologies like Kubernetes. 

 

The two companies will integrate Mirantis Cloud Platform, and a unique build-operate-transfer open infrastructure delivery model with Fujitsu’ hardware, software, and support capabilities. With the agreement, Fujitsu would act as Mirantis’ strategic partner and introduce this methodology to the customers. 

 

Unlike the traditional software-centric method that revolves around licensing and support subscriptions, Mirantis’ approach will pioneer an operations-centric approach. In this, an open infrastructure will be continuously delivered with an operations SLA through a managed service or by the customer themselves. Hence, instead of happening once every 6-12 months, the software updates will be introduced in minor increments on a weekly basis with no down time.

 

As far as Fujitsu’s plans are concerned, the company is going to add a new privately managed global OpenStack based on Mirantis Cloud Platform from June 2017. This step is aimed at fulfilling the growing demand of customers for an easy-to-use open and standards-based cloud platform. 

 

 

Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. Approximately 155,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries.

 

 

Mirantis delivers open cloud infrastructure to top enterprises using OpenStack, Kubernetes and related open source technologies. The company is a major contributor of code to many open infrastructure projects and follows a build-operate-transfer model to deliver its Mirantis Cloud Platform and cloud management services, empowering customers to take advantage of open source innovation with no vendor lock-in.