NTT Communications (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within NTT has joined the OpenStack Foundation which plays a major role in developing the technology and ecosystem of OpenStack. NTT Com aims to strengthen its Infrastrcurure-as-a-Service(IaaS) offerings via its participation in OpenStack. NTT Com will also continue to contribute to the evolution of OpenStack by proposing advanced open-source cloud technologies to the OpenStack Foundation.
According to NTT Com, it plans to leverage the participation in OpenStack Foundation to adopt OpenStack technology in its Next-Generation Cloud Platform, service development and related sales initiatives. The new platform will combine services for hosted private clouds, bare metal clouds and public clouds, as well as provide customers with application programming interfaces and a portal site to centrally manage cloud services, including those of other providers, said NTT Com.
According to NTT Com, Cloud service providers, responding to customer demands for rapid, low-cost cloud deployment, are increasingly providing open source IaaS-based software to help companies integrate cloud services in their systems, the so-called "cloud first" approach. In February, NTT Com became a corporate sponsor of the Japan OpenStack User Group community and then concluded a corporate contributor license agreement (CCLA) with the OpenStack Foundation in March.
