VANCOUVER, British Columbia,
May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- OpenStack Summit (Booth #S12) -- Nuage Networks, the
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) start-up venture
focused on SDN (software-defined networking) is extending its
leadership today by expanding the Nuage Networks Ecosystem, a
complete ecosystem of open source community projects, ecosystem
partners, systems integration partners, developers, and customers
for Development and Operations (DevOps) clouds based on
OpenStack.
Unlike legacy networking vendors with a "one-size-fits-all"
approach, Nuage Networks is working with a broad range of partners
and communities at every level in the IT stack – such as core
networking, server platforms, virtualization, security, and system
integrators. This provides the core components required for public
and private DevOps clouds at any scale based on existing, proven,
and operational models.
By leveraging experience from deployments at leading enterprise
and cloud service provider customers, Nuage Networks has built
several reference architectures for DevOps cloud infrastructures
that are united by a common orchestration framework – OpenStack –
and by a common networking platform –Nuage Networks Virtualized
Services Platform (VSP). With this rich ecosystem,
enterprises and cloud service providers can build a DevOps private
or public cloud infrastructure that not only replaces but also
surpasses legacy architectures in terms of power, sophistication,
and choice.
Both pure play OpenStack distributions announced today, and
Linux / OpenStack distributions from a leading vendor such as Red
Hat are supported. "Partnerships like this are critical to helping
our customers migrate to the cloud. We share a common vision with
Nuage Networks in taking an open approach that is still
enterprise-proven and cloud service provider-ready," said
John Bleuer, Red Hat's Vice
President of Global Partners and Alliances. "Together, we are
working to provide the capabilities for our customers to create
OpenStack-based Clouds that can outpace legacy architectures."
The Nuage Networks ecosystem unifies and leverages these
best-of-breed components:
- Unified Network Control for Cloud Consumption: Nuage
Networks VSP overlays virtualized and bare metal resources without
imposing hardware swap outs and enables unified network controls
and management of multiple standalone DevOps clouds. These clouds
can be unified or "federated" into a single, coherent cloud.
- Rich Partnership Ecosystem: Using the service insertion
model, Nuage Networks ecosystem program enables introduction of
various services based on best-of-breed solutions and customer
choice.
- Open Source Integration: Newly added support for Linux
Containers and Docker alongside with existing and operational
support for OpenStack, KVM, and Xen virtualization hypervisors
maximizes choice for DevOps based on proven and leading-edge open
source community projects.
- System Integration Reach: By offering a set of rich
reference architectures and partnering with leading system
integrators such as Accenture, Nuage Networks makes the adoption of
proven and operational cloud architectures easily within reach of
enterprises and service providers.
"Enterprises adopting OpenStack are looking for a cloud-native,
open approach to datacenter networking that accords primacy to
application workloads and DevOps processes. To provide what
customers need, vendors must work together to form complete
ecosystems, extending all the way from the OpenStack distribution
through to network infrastructure, network and security services,
and even professional services. With its partner program, Nuage
Networks is building an extensive ecosystem that holistically
addresses the needs of organizations that want to move ahead with
real-world OpenStack deployments," said Brad Casemore, Research Director for Datacenter
Networking, IDC.
Nuage Networks ecosystem leverages Nuage Networks VSP,
overlaying a virtualized network on an existing networking
environment. By managing both virtualized and bare metal resources
side-by-side, each data center network can be managed by a single
approach. By uniting the networks across data centers (also called
federation), all data centers, all discrete clouds (e.g.
Development clouds) and the entire DevOps environment are managed
as a whole. Further, by leveraging the proven operating system used
in Alcatel-Lucent's edge and core routing products and Nuage
Networks extensions to OpenStack, SDN can be implemented easily for
DevOps environments at even the largest enterprises and service
providers.
The partner technologies supporting the ecosystem include F5 Big
IP Local Traffic Manager for application delivery, Infoblox DDI for
DNS, DHCP and IP address management, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series
for next-generation firewall protection, and Red Hat OSP 6 as the
OpenStack distribution.
Sunil Khandekar, CEO of Nuage
Networks said, "We are honored to work with market and thought
leading customers in the enterprise and cloud service provider
markets. We're sharing the lessons learned from actual OpenStack
deployments to build not only a comprehensive reference
architecture but also a complete ecosystem of network vendors.
Through our ecosystem, we are enabling OpenStack clouds to exceed
the capabilities of legacy architectures – and that provides our
customers with a competitive advantage."
To illustrate Nuage Networks VSP's capabilities for OpenStack
clouds that provide full operational as well as leading-edge
development capabilities including Containers and distributed load
balancers and firewalls, Nuage Networks is participating in the
OpenStack Summit in Vancouver from
May 18-22. To learn about specific
activities and to book a meeting with Nuage Networks, please visit:
http://www.nuagenetworks.net/event/openstack-summit-vancouver/.
About NUAGE NETWORKS
Nu-âhj: From French,
meaning 'cloud'. Nuage Networks brings a unique combination of
groundbreaking technologies and unmatched networking expertise to
the enterprise and telecommunications industries. The Silicon
Valley-based start up has applied radically new thinking to the
problem of delivering massively scalable and high programmable SDN
solutions with the security and availability required by
business-critical environments. Nuage Networks, a core element of
Alcatel-Lucent's (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) specialist focus on
IP networking, cloud and ultra-broadband access, has the pedigree
to serve the needs of the world's biggest clouds. The cloud has
made promises – the mission of Nuage Networks is to help you
realize them.
For more information, visit Nuage Networks on:
www.nuagenetworks.net, read the latest posts on the Nuage Networks
blog http://www.nuagenetworks.net/blog/ and follow the company on
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nuagenetworks.
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"F5 and Alcatel Lucent have enjoyed a long, productive
partnership," said Mallik Tatipamula, VP of Service Provider
Solutions, F5 Networks. "The validated reference design for
OpenStack that our two organizations have collaborated on gives
enterprise customers and service providers a robust, automated,
policy-driven, and scalable cloud deployment model. This
enables joint customers to increase network flexibility as they
scale their infrastructures. We look forward to partnering with
Alcatel Lucent to further enhance the OpenStack platform."
About F5
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides solutions for an application world. F5
helps organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center,
telecommunications, and software defined networking (SDN)
deployments to successfully deliver applications and services to
anyone, anywhere, at any time. F5 solutions broaden the reach of IT
through an open, extensible framework and a rich partner ecosystem
of leading technology and orchestration vendors. This approach lets
customers pursue the infrastructure model that best fits their
needs over time. The world's largest businesses, service providers,
government entities, and consumer brands rely on F5 to stay ahead
of cloud, security, and mobility trends. For more information, go
to f5.com.
F5 is a trademark or service mark of F5 Networks, Inc., in the
U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names
herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. The use of the
words "partner," "partnership," or "joint" does not imply a legal
partnership relationship between F5 Networks and any other
company.
"Infoblox is excited to help make SDN more enterprise-ready by
bringing the Infoblox solution for delivering DNS, DHCP, and IP
address management—a category known as DDI – into the Nuage
ecosystem," said Scott Fulton,
executive vice president of products at Infoblox. "We offer an
enterprise-grade DDI solution for implementing SDN without having
to rely on manual IP address block assignment and DNS provisioning.
Without DDI automation, while virtual machines can be spun up in
minutes, in many cases it still takes hours or days to allocate IP
address blocks and DNS records in SDN environments. Infoblox DDI
can reduce the operational friction for network managers when
moving from a hardware-defined to a software-defined network."
About Infoblox
Infoblox delivers network control solutions, the fundamental
technology that connects end users, devices, and networks. These
solutions enable approximately 7,900 enterprises and service
providers to transform, secure, and scale complex networks.
Infoblox helps take the burden of complex network control out of
human hands, reduce costs, and increase security, accuracy, and
uptime. Infoblox (www.infoblox.com) is headquartered in
Santa Clara, California, and has
operations in over 25 countries.
Quote from Palo Alto Networks: "The VM-Series of virtualized
next-generation firewalls eliminate the unacceptable security
compromises you previously faced when moving into virtualized
datacenter or cloud computing," said Chad
Kinzelberg, senior vice president, business and corporate
development at Palo Alto Networks. "Working with Nuage Networks
VSP's 'bump in the wire' capabilities helps Palo Alto Networks to
secure the data center just like we secure the wider enterprise
environment."
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks offers an integrated platform using
next-generation firewalls, cloud-based threat intelligence and
advanced endpoint protection, helping enterprises and governments
secure their organizations, prevent known and unknown threats, and
safely enable an increasingly complex and rapidly growing number of
applications.
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