Today at the OpenStack Design Summit in Hong Kong, we announced
the Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab (Ubuntu OIL). The programme
will test and validate the interoperability of hardware and software in a
purpose-built lab, giving Ubuntu OpenStack users the reassurance and
flexibility of choice.
We’re launching the programme with many significant
partners onboard, such as; Dell, EMC, Emulex, Fusion-io, HP, IBM,
Inktank/Ceph, Intel, LSi, Open Compute, SeaMicro, VMware.
The OpenStack ecosystem has grown rapidly giving businesses access to
a huge selection of components for their cloud environments. Most will
expect that, whatever choices they make or however complex their
requirements, the environment should ‘just work’, where any and all
components are interoperable. That’s why we created the Ubuntu OpenStack
Interoperability Lab.
Ubuntu OIL is designed to offer integration and
interoperability testing as well as validation to customers, ISVs and
hardware manufacturers. Ecosystem partners can test their technologies’
interoperability with Ubuntu OpenStack and a range of software and
hardware, ensuring they work together seamlessly as well as with
existing processes and systems. It means that manufacturers can get to
market faster and with less cost, while users can minimise integration
efforts required to connect Ubuntu OpenStack with their infrastructure.
Ubuntu is about giving customers choice. Over the last
releases, we’ve introduced new hypervisors, and software-defined
networking (SDN) stacks, and capabilities for workloads running on
different types of public cloud options. Ubuntu OIL will test all of
these options as well as other technologies to ensure Ubuntu OpenStack
offers the broadest set of validated and supported technology options
compatible with user deployments. Ubuntu OIL will test and validate for
all supported and future releases of Ubuntu, Ubuntu LTS and OpenStack.
Involvement in the lab is through our Canonical Partner Programme. New partners can sign up here.
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