Huawei Extends its Cooperation with Red Hat to Public and NFV Clouds

Huawei
Extends its Cooperation with Red Hat to Public and NFV Clouds

Hong Kong –  10 February, 2017 – Huawei and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT)
announced today they are expanding their cooperation to include public and
network functions virtualization (NFV) clouds. The announcement expands upon
previously announced collaborations between Huawei and Red Hat to deliver
OpenStack-based solutions (December 2014) and carrier-grade software-defined
networking (SDN) solutions (June 2016). The new strategic business and
engineering cooperation is designed to enable Huawei customers to use Red Hat
Enterprise Linux for critical services both on-premises and on Huawei’s public
cloud platform. In addition, the expanded collaboration is aimed at providing a
new solution portfolio for carriers to build NFV clouds.

For the public cloud, Red Hat plans to
validate the Huawei public cloud platform as deployed by Huawei and Huawei’s
public cloud partners to support enterprise customers using Red Hat Enterprise
Linux and other Red Hat solutions, such as the company’s middleware and
management software.

In May 2016, Forrester published a report
titled Brief: China’s Clouds Come To Europe, in which it recommends
consideration of Huawei’s solutions for the European public cloud market. In
The Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Platforms In China, Q4 2016, Huawei was named
as a strong performer in China’s public cloud market. In 2016, Red Hat was
named a leader in two Forrester research reports ranking private cloud software
suites and hybrid cloud management solutions: The Forrester Wave™: Private
Cloud Software Suites, Q1 2016 and The Forrester Wave™: Hybrid Cloud Management
Solutions, Q1 2016.

The introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform, in this cooperation is expected
to further enhance Huawei’s public cloud platform. For its NFV cloud, Huawei
plans to certify its Virtualized Network Function (VNF) layer to work with Red
Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The certification of Red
Hat OpenStack Platform is expected to be completed in the first half of 2017.

Sun Jiawei, Director, IT Business Development
Department, Huawei, said, “Huawei helps customers achieve business
successes by sticking to our ‘Openness, Cooperation, Win-Win’ policy and
devoting to establishing a positive ICT ecosystem. We are delighted to work
with Red Hat to jointly help develop the cloud computing industry and better
serve customers with greater product choice.”

Margaret Dawson, senior director, Global
Product Marketing, Cloud and Telecommunications, at Red Hat, stated that,
“We are honored to expand our strategic relationship with Huawei, enabling
leading global telecommunication companies with the power of open source to
innovate and compete.”