alex freedland boris renski headquarters sunnyvale california area served global key people alex freedland ceo products mirantis openstack fuel website www.mirantis.com mirantis inc. is a sunnyvale california based b2b cloud computing services company . it focuses on the development and support of openstack providing technology and support for clients to build and run open source cloud infrastructures . the company was founded in 1999 by alex freedland and boris renski . 1 it was one of the founding members of the openstack foundation a non profit corporate entity established in september 2012 to promote openstack software and its community . 2 3 4 contents 1 mirantis and openstack 1.1 mirantis openstack 1.2 openstack community involvement 2 partnerships 3 references 4 external links mirantis and openstack edit openstack is an open source software platform for cloud computing infrastructures under ongoing development by an open consortium of developers and vendors . it is co ordinated by the openstack foundation formed to promote the development distribution and adoption of the openstack cloud software . 5 mirantis has been a top contributor to the openstack project . 6 mirantis works with clients to build out open private public and service provider cloud solutions based on openstack using open source tools to integrate the computing network and storage capabilities which define an openstack infrastructure . 7 8 the wall street journal characterizes openstack as providing a kind of dashboard to help manage large numbers of servers storage and networking devices like they were a single resource . mirantis sells a commercial version and helps customers develop and install the software . 9 in two rounds of fund raising in january and june 2013 mirantis raised 10 million in growth capital funding from dell ventures intel capital and westsummit capital 10 and a further 10 million from red hat ericsson and sap ventures . 11 in october 2014 mirantis raised 100 million in a series b financing round led by insight venture partners and joined by existing investors intel capital westsummit capital telefonaktiebolaget l.m. ericsson and sapphire ventures with the stated goal of scaling up engineering to increase openstack contributions and prepare for a 2016 ipo . 12 in august 2015 intel led an additional 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 . 13 mirantis openstack edit mirantis launched its own openstack distribution in october 2013 in competition with openstack distributions from red hat hewlett packard and others . the mirantis openstack distribution works with various operating systems including red hat centos and ubuntu linux . 14 15 other delivery form factors for mirantis openstack include the mirantis nfv reference platform a reference architecture for mirantis openstack designed to efficiently host orchestrate and scale virtualized network functions in ways compatible with the etsi nfv specification . 16 mirantis unlocked appliances are turn key scalable modular racks with mirantis openstack pre installed and pre tested on select hardware in reference configurations optimized for different workload types sold and supported in collaboration with mirantis certified rack partners . the first unlocked appliance for cloud native apps incorporates hardware and software from dell juniper and intel . 17 openstack community involvement edit mirantis founders alex freedland ceo and boris renski cmo serve on the openstack foundation board 18 and were most recently re elected in january 2016 . 19 mirantis contributes to many core openstack projects and leads projects in openstack core and big tent including fuel an openstack project under big tent is a toolkit for deploying and managing openstack clouds . fuel allows deployment configuration and validation of infrastructure features through a graphical interface ; it allows users to choose which openstack components to run . 20 21 22 project murano an openstack application catalog project developed by mirantis and other members of the openstack community . murano attempts to address the challenge of installing third party services and applications in a dynamic openstack environment by offering a catalog of applications fully defined for automated deployment . 23 sahara an openstack project that simplifies creation of hadoop clusters originated by the apache software foundation and openstack foundation members is contributed to by mirantis in collaboration with red hat and hortonworks . rally an openstack project that benchmarks performance of openstack clouds is contributed to by mirantis . 24 as of april 18 . 2016 mirantis was the largest code committer to openstack newton with 24 % of all commits recorded . 25 partnerships edit mirantis works with partners under its unlocked program to validate infrastructure and solutions with releases of mirantis openstack . in september 2015 mirantis launched a network function virtualization nfv initiative with partners citrix metaswitch networks and overture networks under its unlocked program . 26 in 2013 red hat announced that it would partner with mirantis in offering the mirantis fuel solution to optimize deployment of red hat openstack . 27 in november 2013 mirantis partnered with vmware to help vmware clients build openstack private clouds on vmware vsphere virtualized servers . the partnership was described as unlikely because of the perceived competition between openstack and vmware s vcloud suite . 28 in april 2014 mirantis entered into an initial five year partnership with the swedish communications technology and services vendor ericsson to provide openstack software on the ericsson cloud platform which hosts telecommunications networks internal data centers and cloud computing services for ericsson s clients . this was described as the largest deal to date for openstack software . 29 in may there were reports that red hat would no longer provide support to linux customers using non red hat versions of openstack . according to the wall street journal even some of red hat s largest partners say its actions contradict the spirit of the open source community . ... last november red hat ordered its employees to stop working with mirantis a startup that sells a subscription and support for a commercial version of openstack . red hat had partnered with mirantis and invested in the company last june . 30 one month later in june 2014 mirantis partnered with canonical the uk based company which provides commercial support for ubuntu and other operating systems in a project to ensure that ubuntu is supported on mirantis openstack rather than exclusively on canonical s own openstack distro . this was seen by some as in part a response to red hat s refusal to support linux customers using non red hat versions of openstack . one forbes analyst wrote it s a win win . both companies get to look like the good guys . there s a business development angle to all of this and best if you re canonical or mirantis anyway it s another chance to make red hat look like the big bad wolf in the proverbial openstack forest . 31 the following month computer technology and enterprise software vendor oracle announced a partnership with mirantis which will provide support for deploying openstack clouds in alignment with oracle linux and oracle vm distributions . 32 this followed oracle s decision earlier in the year to allow customers to use openstack cloud software with oracle linux and oracle vm . 33 the wall street journal has reported that competition for openstack business sales among vendors like mirantis red hat cloudscaling and others is focused on a potentially large pie . business sales related to openstack will exceed 1.7 billion by 2016 . 34 in october 2015 mirantis announced formation of a joint venture company with china s largest public cloud provider ucloud to accelerate adoption of openstack . 35 references edit brendan maynard russian former outsourcing mirantis announces 10 million series a round goal europe june 24 2013 alex williams openstack cloud builder mirantis raises 10m in second a round from red hat ericsson and sap ventures techcrunch june 6 2013 openstack launches as independent foundation begins work protecting empowering and promoting openstack . businesswire . 19 september 2012 . retrieved 7 january 2013 . openstack foundation mission . retrieved 7 january 2013 . openstack launches as independent foundation begins work protecting empowering and promoting openstack businesswire 19 september 2012 activity by companies openstack.org retrieved october 21 2014 alex williams mirantis raises 10m for openstack services push for cloud bound businesses techcrunch january 10 2013 alex williams openstack cloud builder mirantis raises 10m in second a round from red hat ericsson and sap ventures techcrunch june 6 2013 spencer e. ante ericsson mirantis deal a milestone for openstack software wall street journal digits blog april 2 104 darryl k. taft mirantis gets 10m in funding to boost openstack cloud push eweek january 11 2013 alex williams openstack cloud builder mirantis raises 10m in second a round from red hat ericsson and sap techcrunch june 6 2013 jack clark mirantis gets funding aims for ipo with openstack tools bloomberg october 20 2014 ; ben kepes way to gain a headline mirantis scores biggest ever open source series b funding forbes october 20 2014 barb darrow mirantis scores another 100 million from goldman sachs intel and others forbes august 24 2015 sean michael kerner mirantis fuels new openstack cloud distribution eweek 21 october 2013 kevin mclaughlin mirantis takes on red hat canonical and hp with its own openstack distribution crn 21 october 2013 bill boyle mirantis takes partners to promote nfv data center dynamics september 18 2015 stephen j. vaughan nichols mirantis introduces cloud on a rack openstack appliances zdnet july 8 2015 openstack board of directors openstack 2016 board election jack clark mirantis hey guys here s an idea we re putting open in openstack the register october 21 2013 openstack public fuel repository github.com sean michael kerner mirantis led fuel project gets installed under openstack big tent serverwatch november 20 2015 ian murphy mirantis keeps cool with icehouse businesscloud june 9 2014 chris talbot ibm and mirantis launch openstack benchmarking tool talkin cloud december 6 2013 stackalytics april 18 2016 swapnil bhartiya mirantis launches nfv initiative with citrix metaswitch and overture networks cio september 17 2015 red hat press release retrieved august 18 2014 charles babcock vmware mirantis put openstack on vsphere information week november 4 2013 spencer e. ante ericsson mirantis deal a milestone for openstack software wall street journal digits blog april 2 104 spencer e. ante red hat plays hardball on openstack software wall street journal may 13 2014 ben kepes mirantis and canonical take a swipe at red hat supporting ubuntu on top of mirantis openstack forbes june 4 2014 sean michael kerner mirantis and oracle partner on openstack eweek july 7 2014 oracle press release may 13 2014 retrieved august 1 2014 al sadowski openstack 451 research s annual market assessment 451 research august 1 2014 mirantis and ucloud in joint bid to tap massive potential of chinese cloud market business cloud news october 27 2015 external links edit official website v t e cloud computing applications enstratius google for work apps for work drive hp cloud closed microsoft online rackspace salesforce platforms alpha7 amazon appscale bluemix cloud foundry cocaine paas engine yard enstratius exo platform ge predix greenqloud app engine heroku hp helion inktank jelastic mendix microsoft azure outsystems openqrm openshift orangescape rightscale force.com vmware vcloud air infrastructure 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