With 26,000 unique users across 3,500 development teams globally using
Mirantis' OpenStack distribution, the pure-play OpenStack company today
released
Mirantis OpenStack 8.0,
the most stable OpenStack release to date. Mirantis incorporated
customer feedback from the world's largest OpenStack users on every
continent including AT&T, Comcast, eBay, Saudi Telecom, Shenzhen
Stock Exchange, Telstra, Wells Fargo and other Global 2000 enterprises
in the financial, Web/SaaS and telecommunications sectors across nearly
1,500 OpenStack environments.
"With Gartner and Forrester finally taking a cautiously optimistic
stance on OpenStack, we are confident that stability and scalability of
Mirantis OpenStack 8.0 will serve as a further proof point for that
optimism," said Boris Renski, co-founder and CMO of Mirantis. "We are
particularly happy with the ecosystem uptake of our OpenStack installer -
Fuel. Nearly 100 plug-ins have been authored by third party vendors
since Fuel became a part of OpenStack Big Tent in November."
Mirantis OpenStack 8.0 is based on OpenStack Liberty, the 12th release
of OpenStack. Unlike other OpenStack vendors, Mirantis doesn't ship SDN,
storage or virtualization platforms with its distribution. Instead, at
the heart of Mirantis OpenStack is a highly available infrastructure
controller that makes it possible to orchestrate a wide range of
virtualization, storage, and networking platforms of the customer's
choosing. In addition, Mirantis was the No. 2 contributor by reviews and
the No. 1 bug fixer for the Liberty release.
Mirantis OpenStack 8.0 gives businesses the ability to pick and choose
which infrastructure components best fit their deployment needs. In
addition to KVM running on Ubuntu and VMware vCenter, Mirantis OpenStack
8.0 is now capable of orchestrating Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
(KVM) hosts.
One hundred seventy-one
Fuel plug-ins
have been written by third-party vendors and developers to date.
Mirantis OpenStack 8.0 has a new component registry that gives more
contextual help and visual cues about which OpenStack components are
interoperable, making it easier than ever to manage infrastructure
resources.
In addition, operators can now use Mirantis OpenStack 8.0 to deploy and configure
Ironic,
the OpenStack bare metal provisioning project, so that developers can
choose bare metal servers or VMs for performance-sensitive workloads
such as Cassandra, Hadoop or NFV.
Get a complete list of features and improvements in Mirantis OpenStack 8.0 on our
What's New page, or sign up for the
What's New in Mirantis 8.0 Webinar on Thursday, March 3.