- Telecommunications and open source
software leaders join forces to drive innovation and new product
offerings based on OpenStack, containers, NFV, SDN and SDI
- Leading NFV provider partners with
leading open source software provider to drive IoT, 5G and other
next-generation solutions
- Collaboration combines openness and
choice with scale and efficiency to enable communications industry
transformation with modern and agile solutions
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) share a common belief
in the power of open source to transform the ICT (information and
communications technology) market. Today, they announce a broad
alliance to deliver fully open source and production-ready cloud
infrastructure, spanning OpenStack, software-defined networking
(SDN) and software-defined infrastructure (SDI). Ericsson and Red
Hat are working together to enable customers to embrace the
opportunity presented by the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, and
other next-generation communications solutions with modern and
agile solutions.
Ericsson is a leading provider of hardware, software and
services for the service provider industry and is an industry
acknowledged leader in NFV. Red Hat leads the technology industry
in offering solutions that are open, scalable, flexible and secure.
It is a leader in OpenStack, which has become a go-to platform for
telco and enterprise cloud deployments.
The companies have long worked together to bring Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and Red Hat JBoss Middleware to Ericsson
customers. Today the companies are expanding the collaboration to
focus on NFV infrastructure (NFVi), OpenStack, SDN, SDI and
containers and help define the next generation of modern technology
for the communications industry, including:
- Upstream collaboration: The
companies are taking an “upstream first” approach to collaboration
across open source projects and communities - including OPNFV,
OpenStack, and OpenDaylight - to address customer concerns about
lock-in resulting from proprietary forks, differentiating the
partnership from other providers. Engineering teams from both
companies will collaborate to address customer requirements in
upstream open source projects, helping accelerate technology
innovation for scalable cloud deployments.
- Solution certification and new joint
offerings: Red Hat and Ericsson are collaborating on hardware
and software roadmaps, aimed at developing new joint offerings for
NFV infrastructure, SDN and SDI. Through the collaboration, the
companies plan to work together to certify Ericsson’s platform and
portfolio of solutions including Ericsson Cloud Execution
Environment, Ericsson Cloud SDN solution, and Hyperscale Datacenter
System 8000 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenStack
Platform, and backed by reference architectures and labs.
- Ericsson is expanding its NFV
infrastructure solution to also include Red Hat OpenStack
Platform to meet the needs of service providers across the
globe who require a fully open and agile infrastructure. For their
joint NFV infrastructure, SDN and SDI solutions, the companies plan
to work together to offer easy-to-deploy solutions, including
automated deployment and management.
- Technical alignment to advance
container innovation and adoption: Both Red Hat and Ericsson
see container technologies as a major part of the platform
evolution and will collaborate in upstream activities, in for
example the CNCF and OCI communities.
- Backed by industry leaders:
Ericsson’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based workloads, will
participate in Red Hat’s certification program for applications
running on Red Hat OpenStack Platform. The joint solutions will be
backed by service-level agreements offered by Ericsson.
- Professional services: Customers
looking to evolve their businesses in NFV, IT and datacenter
modernization can benefit from Red Hat's consulting and training
expertise in open source and emerging technology enablement, and
Ericsson's expertise in end-to-end consulting, systems integration,
managed services, and support services. The combined portfolio of
technologies, services, training, and certifications from Red Hat
and Ericsson helps enable our customers to transform their business
in NFV, IT and Data Center Modernization. With this joint
capability, customers gain access to a global team that can
position customers for success in today’s dynamic ICT market.
Supporting Quotes
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat
“Red Hat believes that the future of the communications industry
will be defined by modern architectures and open source solutions
spanning the hybrid cloud, containers, software-defined
infrastructure and NFV. Ericsson shares that belief, and together
we can bring the communications industry into the future with open,
more secure and highly scalable solutions that enable customers to
transform their businesses and deliver on the promise of IoT, 5G
and more.”
Jason Hoffman, head of Product Area Cloud Infrastructure,
Ericsson
“The future is open and software defined. Combining Red Hat, the
world’s leading open source provider, with Ericsson, the world’s
leader in NFV telecom transformation, creates customer speed and
choice while enabling customers to confidently embrace open source.
Our job is to enable our customers to grow faster in rapidly
changing times. This alliance drives exactly this.”
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About Ericsson
Ericsson is the driving force behind the Networked Society - a
world leader in communications technology and services. Our
long-term relationships with every major telecom operator in the
world allow people, business and society to fulfill their potential
and create a more sustainable future.
Our services, software and infrastructure - especially in
mobility, broadband and the cloud - are enabling the telecom
industry and other sectors to do better business, increase
efficiency, improve the user experience and capture new
opportunities.
With approximately 115,000 professionals and customers in 180
countries, we combine global scale with technology and services
leadership. We support networks that connect more than 2.5 billion
subscribers. Forty percent of the world's mobile traffic is carried
over Ericsson networks. And our investments in research and
development ensure that our solutions - and our customers - stay in
front.
Founded in 1876, Ericsson has its headquarters in Stockholm,
Sweden. Net sales in 2014 were SEK 228.0 billion (USD 33.1
billion). Ericsson is listed on NASDAQ OMX stock exchange in
Stockholm and the NASDAQ in New York.
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