Red Hat | Red Hat and eNovance to Deliver Carrier-Grade OpenStack

ATLANTA – OPENSTACK SUMMIT ATLANTA 2014 – May 12, 2014– Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and eNovance, a global leader in the open source cloud computing market, today announced a new collaboration to drive Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and telecommunications innovations into OpenStack. The upstream alliance is aimed at delivering the industry’s most complete, carrier-grade telecommunications offering based on Linux, Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), and OpenStack.

Red Hat and eNovance plan to collaborate with the open source community and contribute NFV innovations to the OpenStack upstream, including work on Linux, KVM and libvirt enhancements to create an efficient VM for virtualized network functions (VNFs), and on accelerated packet processing and service chaining. The intended result is that all OpenStack community participants will benefit from the output of Red Hat’s and eNovance’s open NFV collaboration, as compared to a proprietary extensions add-on approach resulting in further vendor lock-in.



Red Hat | Red Hat and eNovance to Deliver Carrier-Grade OpenStack: Red Hat and eNovance today announced a new collaboration to drive NFV and telecommunications innovations into OpenStack.