Mirantis Expands in Europe to Help Accelerate OpenStack Adoption

Mirantis, the number one pure-play OpenStack vendor, is expanding its European operations to help support increasing global demand for OpenStack solutions, and to drive further market growth for its flexible, commercially-supported OpenStack distribution and professional services.

The company, headquartered in Mountain View, California, has opened an office in Amsterdam to supplement its existing centres in Poland, Ukraine and Russia. This will enable Mirantis to capitalise on the fast-growing interest in vendor-agnostic OpenStack environments in Europe, and to further enhance support for partners and customers.

Adrian Ionel, CEO of Mirantis, said“Enterprises are increasingly turning to the OpenStack open-source platform to drive their public and private clouds. By expanding our presence in Europe, we can further accelerate the agility and scalability benefits the OpenStack ecosystem delivers, and help customers succeed with their deployments. No other OpenStack distribution offers customers the same range of options or extensibility as Mirantis OpenStack.”

Renski is featured in a webcast on Thursday 6 March at 14:00 GMT: ‘Cloud Computing, Open Source, OpenStack: What’s Eating the IT World Anyway?’ with European cloud computing strategist John Rhoton and Mirantis expert Nick Chase. The webcast will look at how OpenStack is shaping the future of IT, and how organisations can take advantage of the technology. For full details, go to: http://online.mirantis.com/openstack-and-the-future-of-it-webcast-1

“At SAP Ventures, we’ve long seen that cloud is essential to giving enterprises the flexibility, choice, and control needed to drive innovation and agility into their businesses,”said Jai Das, Managing Partner at SAP Ventures.“Mirantis has demonstrated leadership and a proven track record in ensuring enterprise customers can build a more agile, scalable, cost-effective cloud with OpenStack, and we know first-hand the tremendous benefits open source and cloud can deliver to the European marketplace.”

Mirantis is the leading provider of OpenStack software solutions, and also offers professional services and training. Its commercially-supported Mirantis OpenStack distribution gives enterprises planning private or public cloud deployments the widest choice of supported operating systems, hypervisors and storage back-ends, with world-class support and services. The Mirantis OpenStack distribution integrates core OpenStack components, essential related OpenStack projects, and 3rd-party plug-ins, in a single integrated package. Customers get the latest innovations from the open source community along with the testing and reliability expected of enterprise software.

Mirantis offers training and certification programs; its Bootcamp for OpenStack has served well over 1000 students from over 400 companies worldwide; a session is offered in London March 5-7. A leading contributor to community and open source, Mirantis is the only pure-play OpenStack vendor among the top five contributors to the OpenStack Havana release cycle, is a founding board member of the OpenStack foundation, and employs more than 400 OpenStack infrastructure experts worldwide.

To find out more about Mirantis OpenStack, visitsoftware.mirantis.com

About Mirantis

Mirantis is the number one pure-play OpenStack company. Mirantis delivers all the software, services, training and support needed for running OpenStack. More customers rely on Mirantis than any other company to get to production deployment of OpenStack at scale.

Among the top five companies worldwide in contributing open source software to OpenStack, Mirantis has helped build and deploy some of the largest OpenStack clouds at companies such as Cisco WebEx, Comcast, Dell, The Gap, NASA, NTT Docomo, PayPal, and Sprint. Mirantis is venture-backed by Intel, Dell, and WestSummit Capital.

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