Mirantis, the pure play OpenStack company, announced a strategic technology and investment collaboration with Intel. The collaboration will focus on accelerating enterprise feature optimisation in Mirantis’ OpenStack distribution and fueling enterprise OpenStack adoption. As part of the collaboration, Intel Capital led a USD 100 million funding round with new investor Goldman Sachs and existing investors August Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Ericsson, Sapphire Ventures (formerly SAP Ventures) and WestSummit Capital. The round includes a combination of equity and spending. The technical collaboration and work with Intel is part of Intel’s recent announcement focused on creating tens of thousands of new clouds, the Cloud for All initiative.
OpenStack cloud software, introduced in 2010, is built by a global development team of open source contributors under the guidance of the OpenStack Foundation. The latest announcement will help further adoption by easing deployment and integration in existing and new data centres worldwide, Mirantis said.
The technology collaboration with Intel will focus on adding increased capabilities for enterprise deployments. More specifically, the two companies will address performance at scale, storage, network integration and support for big data. Addressing these technology challenges will expand the use of OpenStack and ease adoption for Mirantis and Intel customers, Mirantis said.
