Fujitsu and Mirantis Sign Strategic Collaboration Agreement to Deliver Private Managed OpenStack Cloud

Fujitsu
and Mirantis Sign Strategic Collaboration Agreement to Deliver Private Managed
OpenStack Cloud

Companies partner on
global delivery of OpenStack following the build-operate-transfer model for
enterprise customers and Telco

Fujitsu Limited,
Mirantis, Inc.

Tokyo, Japan and
OpenStack Summit, Boston, MA, May 07, 2017

(Tokyo issue date: May 8)
Fujitsu Limited and Mirantis, the managed open cloud company, announced today
the signing of a global, strategic collaboration agreement to help customers
adopt open cloud infrastructure based on OpenStack and related open source
technologies such as Kubernetes.

Fujitsu and Mirantis will
work together to integrate Mirantis Cloud Platform, announced last
month and a unique build-operate-transfer open
infrastructure delivery model with Fujitsu’ hardware, software, and support
capabilities. With this agreement, Fujitsu will become Mirantis’ strategic
partner embracing this methodology and introducing it to customers.

“Today, modern
infrastructure is defined by public cloud vendors that give customers an
experience where they don’t have to think about software,” said Boris
Renski, Mirantis’ Co-Founder and CMO. “Infrastructure software is
changing. Instead, customers will consume infrastructure as a service, where
everything is API driven, managed and continuously delivered. We are very
excited to find a strategic partner in Fujitsu who is eager to collaborate with
us to bring its benefits to the broader market.”

“We are excited to
have partnered with Mirantis to extend our OpenSta”>ck private cloud
business. Mirantis’ unique build-operate-transfer delivery model, coupled with
Fujitsu’s extensive experience and hardware and software offering in serving
our mission critical customer systems, will enable large enterprises to adopt
open cloud with confidence,” said Katsue Tanaka, SVP and Head of the
Platform Software at Fujitsu.

Mirantis’ approach to
infrastructure delivery departs from the traditional software-centric method
that revolves around licensing and support subscriptions. Instead, the company
is pioneering an operations-centric approach, where open infrastructure is
continuously delivered with an operations SLA through a managed service or by
the customer themselves. This way, software updates no longer happen once every
6-12 months, but are introduced in minor increments on a weekly basis and with
no down time.

Having already delivered
a wide range of private cloud offerings, Fujitsu will add a new privately
managed global OpenStack based on Mirantis Cloud Platform, starting from June
2017 in Japan followed by other regions, to fulfill the growing demand of
customers for an easy-to-use open and standards-based cloud platform.