PLUMgrid, a leading innovator of virtual network infrastructure for OpenStack clouds, last week announced partnerships with Dasher Technologies, Datavision, and Redapt to provide enterprises with systems integration and engineering expertise for the design and deployment of OpenStack clouds. The PLUMgrid Global Alliance partner program is a growing ecosystem of supported OpenStack distros, software solutions, hardware solutions, system integrators and value added solution providers. Together, the community of vendors and channel partners design and customize OpenStack-powered clouds with PLUMgrid Open Networking Suite (ONS) for OpenStack overlay solutions. PLUMgrid ONS for OpenStack is a comprehensive software suite that enables scalable and secure virtual network infrastructure for OpenStack clouds
According to PLUMgrid, the Global Alliance Program has to date attracted major OpenStack distro partners such as Mirantis, Piston, Red Hat, Oracle, and SUSE, and infrastructure partners including Arista Networks, Cumulus Networks, F5, and CheckPoint. In addition to Dasher Technologies, Datavision, and Redapt, PLUMgrid partners with Macnica Networks and NESIC who provide cloud solutions to large enterprises and service providers in Japan.
Kash Iftikhar, vice president of sales and business development, at PLUMgrid
The rapid and diverse growth of our ecosystem is a proof point that the industry is looking for production grade software-based network overlay solutions that bring OpenStack-powered clouds into production reliably and quickly,” said. “The PLUMgrid Global Alliance Partner program is a great way for VARs, SIs, and MSPs to provide solutions to OpenStack networking that are proven in production.
