NTT Communications (NTT Com) has partnered with Rancher Labs to provide container services for the unified storage of data and objects to enterprise customers in Japan.
A private container service will be implemented in NTT Com’s Enterprise Cloud in October and a public container service will be implemented in NTTPC’s WebARENA cloud by December 2017. NTTPC is a subsidiary of NTT Com.
The Rancher container management platform is designed to enable customers to easily manage and operate containers, allowing them to: Deploy multiple Docker clusters; Scale containers and hosts; Configure and deploy infrastructure services; and Monitor containers and hosts.
NTT Com Group and Rancher Labs will verify and evaluate the service on the IoT platform of a major manufacturer starting this month. Container services for midsize to large enterprises are expected to be delivered as a multi-tenant cloud service in December 2017.
As part of the ongoing digital transformation of enterprise systems, the development and verification of container software is gaining momentum. Until now, however, potential users have been apprehensive about the operation and management of container environments and related security issues.
In response to this, NTT Com and NTTPC will offer a private container as a service that enables enterprises to quickly and easily establish cloud-based container environments via Rancher container management software.
NTT Com and NTTPC will provide support for the service, with technical assistance from Rancher Labs. In addition, this collaboration is the first time Rancher Labs is providing an MSP (Managed Service Provider) licensing model to a cloud service provider in Japan.
