Private cloud solutions based on OpenStack: Dell and Red Hat are strengthening their longstanding collaboration.

The two companies are decided to combine its resources and opportunities with the goal to help businesses confidently embrace open source-based cloud computing models. This means help users move to and deploy scalable cloud computing models.

According to Dell, henceforth users worldwide will benefit from the co-engineered solutions, combined cloud expertise, enterprise innovation, and

dedicated support and portfolio of services.
Henceforth as part of the expanded relationship, Dell becomes the first company to OEM Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

Connectikpeople has discovered that the co-engineered solution will be built on Dell infrastructure and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. The solution will be delivered by a Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform practice within Dell Cloud Services.

In the same momentum, Dell and Red Hat will also jointly contribute code to the OpenStack community and collaborate on Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4, currently in beta, which integrates OpenStack Havana, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5. In addition, Dell plans to work closely with Red Hat on several future-state projects including:

• OpenStack Networking (Neutron) to enable Software-Defined Networking and Networking-as-a-Service between interface devices such as virtual network interface cards, and
• OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer) to provide OpenStack resource instrumentation, which can help support service monitoring and customer billing systems.

The joint Dell-Red Hat solution is scheduled to be available in 2014.

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