Advanced Computing in the Age of AI | Thursday, March 28, 2024

Big Switch Networks Certified as a Mirantis Technology Partner 

Big Switch Networks today announced its certification as a Mirantis Technology Partner. Through the partnership, Big Switch and Mirantis will bring cloud infrastructure to enterprise and service provider data centers worldwide.

"Mirantis and Big Switch strip away complexity, and increase scalability and agility through the cloud," said Mirantis CMO, Boris Renski. "Mirantis makes OpenStack reliable and easier to use, while Big Switch unlocks the power of SDN in making data centers scalable."

The joint solution consists of the Mirantis OpenStack Distribution and Fuel installer and Big Switch's Big Cloud Fabric (BCF). Mirantis and Big Switch Networks tested, benchmarked, and documented their products' interoperability, performance, and resiliency. Together, the technologies accelerate OpenStack deployments on SDN-based cloud fabrics built with commodity bare metal switches. Customers can quickly deploy OpenStack clouds that are scalable, resilient, operationally simple, and highly cost optimized.

Big Switch is committed to the OpenStack community. It is the first networking vendor to receive OpenStack Compatible status with the OpenStack Foundation and its flagship product, Big Cloud Fabric, brings hyperscale networking technologies to OpenStack environments. Big Cloud Fabric combines bare metal Ethernet switch hardware, SDN controller software, and OpenStack integration with both Nova and Neutron. Big Cloud Fabric also extends fabric telemetry to OpenStack Horizon GUI to simplify tenant workflows. With the recently introduced BCF starter kits at $40K and $99K to accelerate mainstream use, data center administrators can build entry-level OpenStack clouds with minimal budget.

The Mirantis Fuel installer has a simple interface that dramatically speeds up OpenStack deployments, and is flexible so customers can customize OpenStack to their specific needs. Big Switch's Big Cloud Fabric Controller programmatically interacts with Mirantis OpenStack to provision logical networks onto the ultra low-cost leaf-spine fabric in a zero-touch manner, thus enabling tremendous application agility and rapid change management.

"All of us in the OpenStack community are keenly aware that the lack of an easy to use, production-grade SDN solution has been an issue," says Kyle Forster, Co-Founder of Big Switch Networks. "This partnership -- with the certifications, installers, documentation -- is addressing this issue while preserving choices for hardware and software in the networking stack."

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