Mirantis and Parallels Partner to Help Service Providers Monetize OpenStack

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Service providers can now add new hosted private cloud IaaS services on OpenStack using Mirantis OpenStack and Parallels Automation platform

Mountain View, Calif., April 9, 2014 – Mirantis, the number one pure-play OpenStack vendor and Parallels, a leading hosting and cloud services enablement provider, today announced a collaboration to integrate Mirantis OpenStack with Parallels Automation. This integration will allow service providers using Parallels Automation to easily offer OpenStack IaaS services to their customers using the Mirantis OpenStack distribution.

Parallels Automation is a hosting and cloud services delivery platform used by hundreds of service providers worldwide, from the largest telecom operators in the world to top hosters and providers of vertical solutions. With Parallels Automation, service providers can deploy new services more quickly, reduce operational costs and increase average revenue per user.

“As OpenStack gains momentum around the world with more and more service providers, Parallels is natural partner for Mirantis,” said Boris Renski, executive vice president and co-founder of Mirantis. “Cloud operators will benefit in two key ways. Service providers will be able to provision and meter OpenStack infrastructure using Parallels Automation. And by supporting Parallels Containers as an alternative technology, service providers will have more choice when it comes to container technology in OpenStack.”

Mirantis OpenStack will be integrated with Parallels Automation using the APS 2 standard, making it easy for service providers to quickly bring OpenStack-based IaaS services to market. The Parallels Automation platform allows for seamless provisioning of these new services, as well as the consolidated billing with other offerings in the service provider’s environment.

“OpenStack is a priority for our service provider customers,” said John Zanni, chief marketing officer, Parallels. “We’re pleased to collaborate with Mirantis in developing an offering for our customers that makes it easier for them to be successful in delivering and monetizing OpenStack solutions.”

The Mirantis OpenStack integration with Parallels Automation gives service providers, telecommunication companies, hosting providers, managed service providers and other cloud operators a range of benefits, including:

  • Immediate access to the fast-growing OpenStack market at lower cost and shortened time to market. No need to customize OpenStack to work with Parallels Automation or invest in provisioning, billing, monitoring, resource allocation, or service enablement wrappers for their OpenStack offering;
  • A consistent end user experience. Cloud customers get a self-service environment in which they can provision and operate their OpenStack cloud within the same infrastructure footprint they already use with their preferred service provider;
  • No OpenStack lock-in. As the first zero-lock-in distribution, Mirantis OpenStack promises cloud-operators and cloud consumers alike a proven, working open source cloud environment free of opaque hooks or proprietary packaging.

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 Dell, Intel, SAP and WestSummit Capital. For more information, visit www.mirantis.com or follow us on Twitter at @mirantisit.

About Parallels

Parallels® is a global leader in hosting and cloud services enablement and cross-platform solutions. Parallels began operations in 2000 and has developed into a fast-growing software company with more than 900 employees across offices in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.

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About Mirantis

Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds. The company provides a public cloud experience on any infrastructure from the data center to the edge. With Lens and the Mirantis Cloud Native Platform, Mirantis empowers a new breed of Kubernetes developers by removing infrastructure and operations complexity and providing one cohesive cloud experience for complete app and devops portability, a single pane of glass, and automated full-stack lifecycle management with continuous updates.

Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Liberty Mutual, PayPal, Reliance Jio, Splunk, and STC. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.