Red Hat recently announced that Turkcell, FreeBit and KazTransCom have deployed Red Hat OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including the high-performance Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor, forms a more stable, more secure, more reliable operating system foundation. Co-engineered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and hardened and backed by Red Hat's support life cycle, Red Hat OpenStack Platform offers a proven foundation for communications industry deployments, including network functions virtualization (NFV), claims Red Hat.
Red Hat said that it has seen increased adoption of OpenStack, highlighted by several communications leaders selecting Red Hat OpenStack Platform as the backbone of their advanced cloud deployments:
FreeBit, headquartered in Tokyo, provides infrastructure services to Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Seeking to modernize an infrastructure built on aging servers, FreeBit looked to the cloud and OpenStack. They selected Red Hat OpenStack Platform to improve services, reliability, and compatibility, and to create a cloud infrastructure capable of supporting its Internet business.
KazTransCom is one of the largest telecommunications operators in Kazakhstan and boasts a modern network infrastructure that stretches for tens of thousands of kilometers. To innovate and increase revenue potential, it wanted to add new cloud services for business customers, including a public cloud and a highly reliable and scalable NFV platform for network equipment.
In collaboration with Red Hat Consulting, Turkcell built Turkcell Akıllı Depo (“Lifebox”), a self-service cloud based storage application that runs on Red Hat OpenStack Platform, built using OpenStack’s Object Storage (Swift) capabilities. Moving the app in-house has resulted in savings for Turkcell, and they are now able to bring new capabilities to market faster. Because of the success of the project, Turkcell is also developing its BIP messaging application and other services on Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
FreeBit, KazTransCom and Turkcell are stellar examples of the modernization and transformation we are seeing in the communications industry. They have turned to open source - and to Red Hat - to help them create more agile, flexible, and scalable clouds that can meet their needs now and well into the future.
Bülent Saltürk, director of Infrastructure Operations, Turkcell
While modernizing our cloud-based storage service, we decided to use Red Hat OpenStack Platform because it is backed by an experienced development and support teams. We also used Red Hat Consulting for the migration and they have been very responsive in assisting to get our OpenStack deployment up and operating quickly.
