SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 03/01/16 — With 26,000 unique users across 3,500 development teams globally* using Mirantis– OpenStack distribution, the pure-play OpenStack® company today released 8.0, the most stable OpenStack release to date. Mirantis incorporated customer feedback from the world–s largest OpenStack users on every continent including AT&T, Comcast, eBay, Saudi Telecom, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Telstra, Wells Fargo and other Global 2000 enterprises in the financial, Web/SaaS and telecommunications sectors across nearly 1,500 OpenStack environments.
“With Gartner and Forrester finally taking a cautiously optimistic stance on OpenStack, we are confident that stability and scalability of Mirantis OpenStack 8.0 will serve as a further proof point for that optimism,” said Boris Renski, co-founder and CMO of Mirantis. “We are particularly happy with the ecosystem uptake of our OpenStack installer — Fuel. Nearly 100 plug-ins have been authored by third party vendors since Fuel became a part of OpenStack Big Tent in November.”
Mirantis OpenStack 8.0 is based on OpenStack Liberty, the 12th release of OpenStack. Unlike other OpenStack vendors, Mirantis doesn–t ship SDN, storage or virtualization platforms with its distribution. Instead, at the heart of Mirantis OpenStack is a highly available infrastructure controller that makes it possible to orchestrate a wide range of virtualization, storage, and networking platforms of the customer–s choosing. In addition, Mirantis was the by reviews and the for the release.
Mirantis OpenStack 8.0 gives businesses the ability to pick and choose which infrastructure components best fit their deployment needs. In addition to KVM running on Ubuntu and VMware vCenter, Mirantis OpenStack 8.0 is now capable of orchestrating Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (KVM) hosts.
One hundred seventy-one have been written by third-party vendors and developers to date. Mirantis OpenStack 8.0 has a new component registry that gives more contextual help and visual cues about which OpenStack components are interoperable, making it easier than ever to manage infrastructure resources.
In addition, operators can now use Mirantis OpenStack 8.0 to deploy and configure , the OpenStack bare metal provisioning project, so that developers can choose bare metal servers or VMs for performance-sensitive workloads such as Cassandra, Hadoop or NFV.
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, delivering all the , , , and support needed for running OpenStack. More customers rely on Mirantis than on any other company to get to production deployment of OpenStack at scale. Mirantis is among the top three companies worldwide in contributing open source software to OpenStack, and has helped build and deploy some of the largest OpenStack clouds in the world, at companies such as Cisco, Comcast, Ericsson, NASA, Samsung and Symantec. Mirantis is venture-backed by August Capital, Dell Ventures, Ericsson, Goldman Sachs, Intel, Insight Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Siguler Guff & Co., and WestSummit Capital, with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Follow us on Twitter at .
*Statistics based on opt-in phone home feature in Mirantis OpenStack 7.0.
Sarah Bennett
Mirantis
PR Manager
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