PLUMgrid, a leader of secure and scalable SDN and NFV solutions for OpenStack clouds, today entered a global reseller agreement with
NocSys,
a cloud solutions provider focused on serving enterprises and service
providers in China. NocSys will deliver PLUMgrid's SDN and NFV
solutions, expanding the company's presence into China's market where
its distributed data plane powered by IO Visor is crucial to customers
deploying scalable OpenStack clouds. Together, the two firms help
customers quickly and efficiently deploy applications and services
within the cloud with the highest levels of security, scale,
performance, operations monitoring and diagnostics.
Under terms of the contract, NocSys will resell PLUMgrid's full SDN portfolio of solutions including its Open Networking Suite (ONS)
for OpenStack, CloudApex SDN visualization and monitoring platform,
training and professional services. In addition to its vast experience
in one of the biggest technology markets in the world, NocSys offers
expertise and knowledge, systems integration, and professional services
for its clients.
"We chose PLUMgrid for its production-ready, best-in-class SDN solutions because our clients require the utmost reliability," said President and Chairman of NocSys, Rebecca Lin. "With
this partnership, we deliver its comprehensive, secure and scalable SDN
portfolio to our joint customers ensuring multi-point recovery, elastic
scalability, rapid deployment and the ability to dynamically perform
upgrades across OpenStack environments."
With government support for Open Source, the OpenStack
ecosystem in China is driving a new generation of innovative businesses
that are using the cloud to bring their products and services to market
at a rapid pace. According to International Data Corporation (IDC),
China's total public and private cloud market size was US$ 2.46 billion
in 2014, maintaining a high compound annual growth rate over five years
of more than 26 percent to reach US$10 billion in 2019.
"Fueled by a mobile consumer base estimated to reach 700 million this year, China has the world's largest e-commerce market," said PLUMgrid CEO Larry Lang. "The
market's size and technology adoption rate make the need to rapidly
provision cloud apps and services essential to our joint enterprise and
service provider clients. Partnering with NocSys enables us to add new,
high-growth customers and gives us a local presence that delivers
essential regional and technical expertise as well as services."
NocSys' local expertise, combined with the comprehensive
PLUMgrid SDN portfolio, gives customers access to a powerful cloud
solution that enables reduced Capex and Opex while improving deployment
flexibility and agility. PLUMgrid and NocSys work together to address
today's primary requirements for successful OpenStack deployments
through:
- Security: PLUMgrid secures OpenStack clouds by enabling Virtual
Domains, a unique approach that provides micro-segmentation and firewall service insertion technology.
- Scale and Performance: PLUMgrid offers distributed and programmable data planes powered by IO Visor software for in-kernel forwarding and IO services.
- Operations, Monitoring and Diagnostics:
Critical for "operationalizing" OpenStack clouds, PLUMgrid and NocSys
offer a broad portfolio of tools and exceptional customer support.
PLUMgrid recently announced CloudApex, a real-time SDN visualization and
monitoring platform to ease management.