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{{Infobox company
{{Infobox company
| name = Mirantis Inc
| name = Mirantis Inc
| logo = [[File:Mirantis_logo_2017-225w.png]]
| logo = [[File:Mirantis_logo_2017-225w.png]]
| founder = Alex Freedland, Boris Renski
| founder = Alex Freedland, Boris Renski
| area_served = Global
| area_served = Global
| key_people = Alex Freedland (CEO)
| key_people = Adrian Ionel (CEO)
| industry = [[Cloud computing]]
| industry = [[Cloud computing]]
| products = Mirantis OpenStack, Fuel, Mirantis Cloud Platform
| products = Mirantis OpenStack, Fuel, Mirantis Cloud Platform
| foundation = 1999 <!-- This parameter modifies "Founded". -->
| foundation = 1999 <!-- This parameter modifies "Founded". -->
| location = [[Sunnyvale, California]]
| location = [[Sunnyvale, California]]
| homepage = {{URL|https://www.mirantis.com/}}
| homepage = {{URL|https://www.mirantis.com/}}
}}
}}


'''Mirantis Inc.''' is a [[Sunnyvale, California]], based [[Business-to-business|B2B]] [[cloud computing]] services company. It focuses on the development and support of [[OpenStack]]. The company was founded in 1999 by Alex Freedland and Boris Renski.<ref>Brendan Maynard, "Russian former outsourcing Mirantis Announces $10 Million Series A Round" ''[http://goaleurope.com/2013/06/24/russian-former-outsourcing-mirantis-announces-10-million-series-a-round/ Goal Europe]'', June 24, 2013</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=OpenStack Foundation Mission|url=http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Mission|accessdate=7 January 2013}}</ref>
'''Mirantis Inc.''' is a [[Sunnyvale, California]], based [[Business-to-business|B2B]] [[cloud computing]] services company. It focuses on the development and support of [[OpenStack]]. The company was founded in 1999 by Alex Freedland and Boris Renski.<ref>Brendan Maynard, "Russian former outsourcing Mirantis Announces $10 Million Series A Round" ''[http://goaleurope.com/2013/06/24/russian-former-outsourcing-mirantis-announces-10-million-series-a-round/ Goal Europe]'', June 24, 2013</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=OpenStack Foundation Mission|url=http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Mission|accessdate=7 January 2013}}</ref>


==Mirantis and OpenStack==
==Mirantis, OpenStack and Kubernetes==


[[OpenStack]] is an [[open source]] software platform for [[cloud computing]] infrastructures, coordinated by the OpenStack Foundation to promote the "development, distribution and adoption of the OpenStack cloud software."{{cn|date=December 2016}} Mirantis has been a top contributor to the OpenStack project.<ref>"Activity by Companies" [http://activity.openstack.org/dash/browser/scm-companies.html?release=juno OpenStack.org] retrieved October 21, 2014</ref> 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.<ref>Alex Williams, "[https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/10/mirantis-raises-10m-for-openstack-services-push-for-cloud-bound-businesses/ Mirantis Raises $10M For OpenStack Services Push For Cloud-Bound Businesses]" ''TechCrunch'', January 10, 2013</ref><ref>Alex Williams, "[https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/06/openstack-cloud-builder-mirantis-raises-10m-in-second-a-round-from-red-hat-ericsson-and-sap-ventures/ OpenStack Cloud Builder Mirantis Raises $10M In Second A Round From Red Hat, Ericsson And SAP Ventures]" ''TechCrunch'', June 6, 2013</ref> 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."<ref>Spencer E. Ante, "Ericsson-Mirantis Deal a Milestone for OpenStack Software" ''Wall Street Journal'' (Digits Blog), April 2, 104</ref>
[[OpenStack]] is an [[open source]] software platform for [[cloud computing]] infrastructures, coordinated by the OpenStack Foundation to promote the "development, distribution and adoption of the OpenStack cloud software."<ref>Carol Barrett, Kathy Cacciatore, Amar Kapadia, et al, “[https://www.openstack.org/assets/pdf-downloads/business-perspectives.pdf OpenStack: A Business Perspective].” OpenStack Foundation. September 5, 2016</ref> Mirantis has been a top contributor to the OpenStack project.<ref>"Activity by Companies" [http://activity.openstack.org/dash/browser/scm-companies.html?release=juno OpenStack.org] retrieved October 21, 2014</ref> 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.<ref>Alex Williams, "[https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/10/mirantis-raises-10m-for-openstack-services-push-for-cloud-bound-businesses/ Mirantis Raises $10M For OpenStack Services Push For Cloud-Bound Businesses]" ''TechCrunch'', January 10, 2013</ref><ref>Alex Williams, "[https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/06/openstack-cloud-builder-mirantis-raises-10m-in-second-a-round-from-red-hat-ericsson-and-sap-ventures/ OpenStack Cloud Builder Mirantis Raises $10M In Second A Round From Red Hat, Ericsson And SAP Ventures]" ''TechCrunch'', June 6, 2013</ref> 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."<ref>Spencer E. Ante, "Ericsson-Mirantis Deal a Milestone for OpenStack Software" ''Wall Street Journal'' (Digits Blog), April 2, 104</ref>


In two rounds of fund-raising in January and June 2013, Mirantis raised $10 million in funding from [[Dell|Dell Ventures]], [[Intel Capital]] and WestSummit Capital,<ref>Darryl K. Taft, "[http://www.eweek.com/cloud/mirantis-gets-10m-in-funding-to-boost-openstack-cloud-push/ Mirantis Gets $10M in Funding to Boost OpenStack Cloud Push]" ''eWeek'' January 11, 2013</ref> and a further $10 million from [[Red Hat]], [[Ericsson]] and [[SAP SE|SAP Ventures]].<ref>Alex Williams, "[https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/06/openstack-cloud-builder-mirantis-raises-10m-in-second-a-round-from-red-hat-ericsson-and-sap-ventures/ OpenStack Cloud Builder Mirantis Raises $10M In Second A Round From Red Hat, Ericsson And SAP]" ''TechCrunch'' June 6, 2013</ref> 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.<ref>Jack Clark, "Mirantis Gets Funding, Aims for IPO With OpenStack Tools" ''[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-21/mirantis-gets-funding-aims-for-ipo-with-openstack-tools.html Bloomberg]''</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title= Way To Gain A Headline--Mirantis Scores Biggest Ever Open Source Series B Funding |author= Ben Kepes |work= Forbes |date= October 20, 2014 |url= https://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/10/20/way-to-gain-a-headline-mirantis-scores-biggest-ever-open-source-series-b-funding/ |deadurl= no |archivedate= December 3, 2014 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20141203085810/http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/10/20/way-to-gain-a-headline-mirantis-scores-biggest-ever-open-source-series-b-funding/ |accessdate= January 30, 2017 }}</ref>
In two rounds of fund-raising in January and June 2013, Mirantis raised $10 million in funding from [[Dell|Dell Ventures]], [[Intel Capital]] and WestSummit Capital,<ref>Darryl K. Taft, "[http://www.eweek.com/cloud/mirantis-gets-10m-in-funding-to-boost-openstack-cloud-push/ Mirantis Gets $10M in Funding to Boost OpenStack Cloud Push]" ''eWeek'' January 11, 2013</ref> and a further $10 million from [[Red Hat]], [[Ericsson]] and [[SAP SE|SAP Ventures]].<ref>Alex Williams, "[https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/06/openstack-cloud-builder-mirantis-raises-10m-in-second-a-round-from-red-hat-ericsson-and-sap-ventures/ OpenStack Cloud Builder Mirantis Raises $10M In Second A Round From Red Hat, Ericsson And SAP]" ''TechCrunch'' June 6, 2013</ref> 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.<ref>Jack Clark, "Mirantis Gets Funding, Aims for IPO With OpenStack Tools" ''[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-21/mirantis-gets-funding-aims-for-ipo-with-openstack-tools.html Bloomberg]''</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title= Way To Gain A Headline--Mirantis Scores Biggest Ever Open Source Series B Funding |author= Ben Kepes |work= Forbes |date= October 20, 2014 |url= https://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/10/20/way-to-gain-a-headline-mirantis-scores-biggest-ever-open-source-series-b-funding/ |deadurl= no |archivedate= December 3, 2014 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20141203085810/http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/10/20/way-to-gain-a-headline-mirantis-scores-biggest-ever-open-source-series-b-funding/ |accessdate= January 30, 2017 }}</ref>
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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.<ref>Bill Boyle, [http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/it-networks/mirantis-takes-partners-to-promote-nfv/94827.fullarticle "Mirantis Takes Partners to Promote NFV"] ''Data Center Dynamics'', September 18, 2015</ref>
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.<ref>Bill Boyle, [http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/it-networks/mirantis-takes-partners-to-promote-nfv/94827.fullarticle "Mirantis Takes Partners to Promote NFV"] ''Data Center Dynamics'', September 18, 2015</ref>


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.<ref>Stephen J. Vaughan-Nichols, [http://www.zdnet.com/article/mirantis-introduces-cloud-on-a-rack-openstack-appliances/ "Mirantis Introduces Cloud-on-a-Rack OpenStack Appliances"] ''ZDNet'' July 8, 2015</ref>
Mirantis Unlocked Appliances, first offered in July 2015, were 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, incorporated hardware and software from Dell, Juniper and Intel.<ref>Stephen J. Vaughan-Nichols, [http://www.zdnet.com/article/mirantis-introduces-cloud-on-a-rack-openstack-appliances/ "Mirantis Introduces Cloud-on-a-Rack OpenStack Appliances"] ''ZDNet'' July 8, 2015</ref>

By early 2017, Mirantis changed its focus to offer managed solutions based on a number of open source infrastructure platforms, including OpenStack.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/3179680/private-cloud/mirantis-shifts-again-will-offer-managed-solutions-based-on-open-source-technologies.html|title=Mirantis shifts again, will offer managed solutions based on open-source technologies|last=Kepes|first=Ben|date=March 13, 2017|work=Network World|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref>
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===OpenStack community involvement===

Mirantis founders, Alex Freedland (CEO) and Boris Renski (CMO) serve on the OpenStack Foundation Board<ref>[http://www.openstack.org/foundation/board-of-directors/ "OpenStack: Board of Directors"]</ref> and were most recently re-elected in January 2016.<ref>[https://www.openstack.org/election/2016-individual-director-election/ "OpenStack: 2016 Board Election"]</ref> Mirantis contributes to many core OpenStack projects and leads projects in OpenStack core and Big Tent, including:
=== Kubernetes ===
Mirantis debuted its first [[Kubernetes]]-related offering in December 2016, when it introduced vendor-agnostic training and certification for the Kubernetes and [[Docker (software)|Docker]] [[Operating-system-level virtualization|container]] platforms.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/3145402/open-source-tools/mirantis-moves-deeper-into-the-container-world-launches-certification.html|title=Mirantis moves deeper into the container world, launches certification|last=Kepes|first=Ben|date=December 6, 2016|work=Network World|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref> The company released Mirantis Cloud Platform, which combines OpenStack with Kubernetes and follows a build-operate-transfer delivery model in April 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.zdnet.com/article/mirantis-enters-the-kubernetes-game-and-ups-its-openstack-play/|title=Mirantis enters the Kubernetes game and ups its OpenStack play|last=Vaughan-Nichols|first=Steven|date=April 21, 2017|work=ZDNet|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref> Mirantis Cloud Platform utilizes a [[continuous integration]] / [[continuous delivery]] [[toolchain]], known as DriveTrain, to perform continuous incremental updates and eliminate the need for major upgrades of the platform.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/mirantis-cloud-platform-combines-openstack-kubernetes-container-management/2017/04/|title=Mirantis Cloud Platform Combines OpenStack and Kubernetes Container Management|last=Lyons Hardcastle|first=Jessica|date=April 21, 2017|work=SDX Central|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref>

Mirantis announced Mirantis Cloud Platform Containers-as-a-Service, which enables users to provision Kubernetes clusters across multiple clouds on private infrastructure and/or public clouds including [[Amazon Web Services]], in September 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.storagereview.com/mirantis_launches_multicloud_caas_with_aws_support|title=Mirantis Launches Multi-Cloud CaaS with AWS Support|last=Armstrong|first=Adam|date=September 26, 2017|work=Storage Review|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref> With the addition of Containers-as-a-Service, Mirantis Cloud Platform supports hybrid clouds, with DriveTrain providing “consistent tooling for managing the lifecycle of OpenStack, Kubernetes on-premises and on AWS."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300092771/pioneering-openstack-developer-mirantis-is-ready-to-work-with-aws.htm|title=Pioneering OpenStack Developer Mirantis is Ready to Work with AWS|last=Tsidulko|first=Joseph|date=September 26, 2017|work=CRN|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref> As Mirantis continues to shift from an exclusive OpenStack focus to the continuous integration and continuous delivery of Kubernetes and other combinations of open source cloud software, this tooling forms the basis of the company’s vision of a “cloud-native continuous delivery” platform for multi-cloud solutions.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/25/adrian-ionel-returns-to-ceo-role-at-mirantis-as-it-continues-to-expand-beyond-openstack/|title=Adrian Ionel returns to CEO role at Mirantis as the company continues to expand beyond OpenStack|last=Lardinois|first=Frederic|date=January 25, 2018|work=TechCrunch|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/08/mirantis_makes_drivetrain_its_main_product/|title=Mirantis eyes continuous integration of all the things|last=Sharwood|first=Simon|date=November 8, 2017|work=The Register|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref>

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===OpenStack, Kubernetes and other community involvement===
Mirantis founders, Alex Freedland (CEO) and Boris Renski (CMO) have served on the OpenStack Foundation Board<ref>[http://www.openstack.org/foundation/board-of-directors/ "OpenStack: Board of Directors"]</ref> and Boris Renski was most recently re-elected in January 2018.<ref>[https://www.openstack.org/election/2016-individual-director-election/ "OpenStack: 2016 Board Election"]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.openstack.org/foundation/board-of-directors/|title=OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> Mirantis has been a major contributor of code to OpenStack, ranking as the #3 contributor of all time by both commits and lines of code.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=loc|title=Stackalytics contribution by companies - lines of code|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=commits|title=Stackalytics contribution by company - commits|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>

Mirantis contributes to many core OpenStack projects and during the Mitake and Newton releases, when Mirantis ranked as the #1 contributor by lines of code, the company led 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.<ref>Jack Clark, "Mirantis: Hey guys, here's an idea - we're putting 'open' in OpenStack" ''The Register'' October 21, 2013</ref><ref>[https://github.com/openstack?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=fuel OpenStack Public Fuel Repository], ''github.com''</ref><ref>Sean Michael Kerner, [http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/mirantis-led-fuel-project-gets-installed-under-openstack-big-tent.html "Mirantis Led FUEL Project Gets Installed Under OpenStack Big Tent"], ''ServerWatch'', November 20, 2015</ref>
* 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.<ref>Jack Clark, "Mirantis: Hey guys, here's an idea - we're putting 'open' in OpenStack" ''The Register'' October 21, 2013</ref><ref>[https://github.com/openstack?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=fuel OpenStack Public Fuel Repository], ''github.com''</ref><ref>Sean Michael Kerner, [http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/mirantis-led-fuel-project-gets-installed-under-openstack-big-tent.html "Mirantis Led FUEL Project Gets Installed Under OpenStack Big Tent"], ''ServerWatch'', November 20, 2015</ref>
* 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.<ref>Ian Murphy, "[https://www.business-cloud.com/articles/news/mirantis-keeps-cool-icehouse Mirantis keeps cool with Icehouse]" ''BusinessCloud'' June 9, 2014</ref>
* 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.<ref>Ian Murphy, "[https://www.business-cloud.com/articles/news/mirantis-keeps-cool-icehouse Mirantis keeps cool with Icehouse]" ''BusinessCloud'' June 9, 2014</ref>
* Sahara, an OpenStack project that simplifies creation of [[Apache Hadoop|Hadoop]] clusters, originated by the [[Apache Software Foundation]] and OpenStack Foundation members, is contributed to by Mirantis in collaboration with [[Red Hat]] and [[Hortonworks]].
* Sahara, an OpenStack project that simplifies creation of [[Apache Hadoop|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.<ref>Chris Talbot, [http://talkincloud.com/cloud-computing-and-open-source/ibm-mirantis-launch-openstack-benchmarking-tool "IBM and Mirantis Launch OpenStack Benchmarking Tool"] ''Talkin' Cloud'', December 6, 2013</ref>
* Rally, an OpenStack project that benchmarks performance of OpenStack clouds, is contributed to by Mirantis.<ref>Chris Talbot, [http://talkincloud.com/cloud-computing-and-open-source/ibm-mirantis-launch-openstack-benchmarking-tool "IBM and Mirantis Launch OpenStack Benchmarking Tool"] ''Talkin' Cloud'', December 6, 2013</ref>
As of April 18. 2016, Mirantis was the largest code-committer to OpenStack Newton, with 24% of all commits recorded.<ref>[http://stackalytics.com/ "Stackalytics"] April 18, 2016</ref>
Mirantis was the largest code-contributor to OpenStack Newton by lines of code, with 32% of all lines of code recorded.<ref>[http://stackalytics.com/?release=newton&metric=loc "Stackalytics"]</ref>

By 2016, Mirantis started becoming a significant contributor of code to other open infrastructure-related projects as well, including Kubernetes, [[Ceph (software)|Ceph]], OpenContrail, Prometheus, and [[Open Platform for NFV|OPNFV]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://vmblog.com/archive/2016/03/01/vmblog-s-expert-interviews-kamesh-pemmaraju-talks-about-mirantis-openstack-mos-distribution-version-8-0.aspx#.WntwE5M-eL4|title=VMblog’s Expert Interviews: Kamesh Pemmaraju Talks about Mirantis OpenStack (MOS) Distribution Version 8.0|last=Marshall|first=David|date=March 1, 2016|work=VMblog|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cncf.biterg.io/|title=CNCF Bitergia analytics dashboard - Kubernetes, Prometheus|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.linux.com/news/event/open-networking-summit/2017/2/opencontrail-essential-tool-openstack-ecosystem|title=OpenContrail: An Essential Tool in the OpenStack Ecosystem|last=Dean|first=Sam|date=February 1, 2017|work=Linux.com|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/DEV/Quarterly+Reports#QuarterlyReports-QuarterlyReportsfromBitergia|title=Bitergia Standard Grimoire Report OPNFV Project 2017-Q3|last=|first=|date=December 27, 2017|website=https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/DEV/Quarterly+Reports#QuarterlyReports-QuarterlyReportsfromBitergia|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>


==Partnerships==
==Partnerships==

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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.<ref>Swapnil Bhartiya, "[http://www.cio.com/article/2984693/openstack/mirantis-launches-nfv-initiative-with-citrix-metaswitch-and-overture-networks.html Mirantis Launches NFV Initiative with Citrix, Metaswitch and Overture Networks]" ''CIO'' September 17, 2015</ref>
=== Mirantis OpenStack partners ===
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Mirantis worked 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.<ref>Swapnil Bhartiya, "[http://www.cio.com/article/2984693/openstack/mirantis-launches-nfv-initiative-with-citrix-metaswitch-and-overture-networks.html Mirantis Launches NFV Initiative with Citrix, Metaswitch and Overture Networks]" ''CIO'' September 17, 2015</ref>


In 2013, [[Red Hat]] announced that it would partner with Mirantis in offering the Mirantis Fuel solution to optimize deployment of Red Hat [[OpenStack]].<ref>[[Red Hat]] [http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-mirantis-partner-across-products-and-services-to-accelerate-adoption-of-red-hat-openstack press release], retrieved August 18, 2014</ref>
In 2013, [[Red Hat]] announced that it would partner with Mirantis in offering the Mirantis Fuel solution to optimize deployment of Red Hat [[OpenStack]].<ref>[[Red Hat]] [http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-mirantis-partner-across-products-and-services-to-accelerate-adoption-of-red-hat-openstack press release], retrieved August 18, 2014</ref>
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In October, 2015, Mirantis announced formation of a joint-venture company with China's largest public cloud provider, UCloud, to accelerate adoption of OpenStack.<ref>[http://www.businesscloudnews.com/2015/10/27/mirantis-and-ucloud-in-joint-bid-to-tap-massive-potential-of-chinese-cloud-market/ "Mirantis and UCloud in joint bid to tap massive potential of Chinese cloud market"] ''Business Cloud News'', October 27, 2015</ref>
In October, 2015, Mirantis announced formation of a joint-venture company with China's largest public cloud provider, UCloud, to accelerate adoption of OpenStack.<ref>[http://www.businesscloudnews.com/2015/10/27/mirantis-and-ucloud-in-joint-bid-to-tap-massive-potential-of-chinese-cloud-market/ "Mirantis and UCloud in joint bid to tap massive potential of Chinese cloud market"] ''Business Cloud News'', October 27, 2015</ref>

Mirantis announced NTT as its first data center service provider partner, offering OpenStack-based private clouds on its NTT Com Enterprise Cloud, in October 2016.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/21/mirantis_ntt_private_cloud_deal/|title=OpenStack-flinger Mirantis signs landmark NTT deal|last=Clarke|first=Gavin|date=October 21, 2016|work=The Register|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref>

=== Mirantis Cloud Platform Partners ===
In February 2017, Harmonic and Mirantis announced a partnership “to provide media content and service providers with a media processing solution for live and VOD production on OpenStack,” and that the solution was already deployed by a leading North American service provider.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.fiercecable.com/broadcasting/harmonic-mirantis-partner-openstack-media-processing-solution|title=Harmonic, Mirantis partner on OpenStack media processing solution|last=Munson|first=Ben|date=February 1, 2017|work=FierceCable|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref>

[[Fujitsu]] and Mirantis announced a global, strategic agreement to deliver a private cloud based on Mirantis Cloud Platform and Fujitsu’s hardware, software and support capabilities, following Mirantis’ build-operate-transfer delivery model in May 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.storagereview.com/fujitsu_mirantis_partner_on_delivering_private_managed_openstack_cloud|title=Fujitsu and Mirantis Partner on Delivering Private Managed OpenStack Cloud|last=Armstrong|first=Adam|date=May 7, 2017|work=Storage Review|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref>

== Acquisitions ==
In 2016, Mirantis acquired TCP Cloud, a Czech startup that developed managed services for OpenStack, had expertise in Kubernetes and containers, and was a top contributor of OpenContrail.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/mirantis-kubernetes-plan-advances-tcp-cloud/2016/09/|title=Mirantis’ Kubernetes Plan Advances with TCP Cloud|last=Matsumoto|first=Craig|date=September 15, 2016|work=SDX Central|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.opencontrail.org/project-adopters/|title=OpenContrail - Project Contributors|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=February 12, 2018}}</ref>


==References==
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Mirantis Inc
IndustryCloud computing
Founded1999
FounderAlex Freedland, Boris Renski
HeadquartersSunnyvale, California
Area served
Global
Key people
Adrian Ionel (CEO)
ProductsMirantis OpenStack, Fuel, Mirantis Cloud Platform
Websitewww.mirantis.com

Mirantis Inc. is a Sunnyvale, California, based B2B cloud computing services company. It focuses on the development and support of OpenStack. 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]

Mirantis, OpenStack and Kubernetes

OpenStack is an open source software platform for cloud computing infrastructures, coordinated by the OpenStack Foundation to promote the "development, distribution and adoption of the OpenStack cloud software."[3] Mirantis has been a top contributor to the OpenStack project.[4] 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.[5][6] 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."[7]

In two rounds of fund-raising in January and June 2013, Mirantis raised $10 million in funding from Dell Ventures, Intel Capital and WestSummit Capital,[8] and a further $10 million from Red Hat, Ericsson and SAP Ventures.[9] 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.[10][11] 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.[12][13]

OpenStack

Mirantis announced its own OpenStack distribution in October 2013, in competition with 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, first offered in July 2015, were 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, incorporated hardware and software from Dell, Juniper and Intel.[17]

By early 2017, Mirantis changed its focus to offer managed solutions based on a number of open source infrastructure platforms, including OpenStack.[18]

Kubernetes

Mirantis debuted its first Kubernetes-related offering in December 2016, when it introduced vendor-agnostic training and certification for the Kubernetes and Docker container platforms.[19] The company released Mirantis Cloud Platform, which combines OpenStack with Kubernetes and follows a build-operate-transfer delivery model in April 2017.[20] Mirantis Cloud Platform utilizes a continuous integration / continuous delivery toolchain, known as DriveTrain, to perform continuous incremental updates and eliminate the need for major upgrades of the platform.[21]

Mirantis announced Mirantis Cloud Platform Containers-as-a-Service, which enables users to provision Kubernetes clusters across multiple clouds on private infrastructure and/or public clouds including Amazon Web Services, in September 2017.[22] With the addition of Containers-as-a-Service, Mirantis Cloud Platform supports hybrid clouds, with DriveTrain providing “consistent tooling for managing the lifecycle of OpenStack, Kubernetes on-premises and on AWS."[23] As Mirantis continues to shift from an exclusive OpenStack focus to the continuous integration and continuous delivery of Kubernetes and other combinations of open source cloud software, this tooling forms the basis of the company’s vision of a “cloud-native continuous delivery” platform for multi-cloud solutions.[24][25]

OpenStack, Kubernetes and other community involvement

Mirantis founders, Alex Freedland (CEO) and Boris Renski (CMO) have served on the OpenStack Foundation Board[26] and Boris Renski was most recently re-elected in January 2018.[27][28] Mirantis has been a major contributor of code to OpenStack, ranking as the #3 contributor of all time by both commits and lines of code.[29][30]

Mirantis contributes to many core OpenStack projects and during the Mitake and Newton releases, when Mirantis ranked as the #1 contributor by lines of code, the company led 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.[31][32][33]
  • 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.[34]
  • 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.[35]

Mirantis was the largest code-contributor to OpenStack Newton by lines of code, with 32% of all lines of code recorded.[36]

By 2016, Mirantis started becoming a significant contributor of code to other open infrastructure-related projects as well, including Kubernetes, Ceph, OpenContrail, Prometheus, and OPNFV.[37][38][39][40]

Partnerships

Mirantis OpenStack partners

Mirantis worked 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.[41]

In 2013, Red Hat announced that it would partner with Mirantis in offering the Mirantis Fuel solution to optimize deployment of Red Hat OpenStack.[42]

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.[43]

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.[44]

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."[45]

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."[46]

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.[47] This followed Oracle's decision earlier in the year to allow customers to use OpenStack cloud software with Oracle Linux and Oracle VM.[48]

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."[49]

In October, 2015, Mirantis announced formation of a joint-venture company with China's largest public cloud provider, UCloud, to accelerate adoption of OpenStack.[50]

Mirantis announced NTT as its first data center service provider partner, offering OpenStack-based private clouds on its NTT Com Enterprise Cloud, in October 2016.[51]

Mirantis Cloud Platform Partners

In February 2017, Harmonic and Mirantis announced a partnership “to provide media content and service providers with a media processing solution for live and VOD production on OpenStack,” and that the solution was already deployed by a leading North American service provider.[52]

Fujitsu and Mirantis announced a global, strategic agreement to deliver a private cloud based on Mirantis Cloud Platform and Fujitsu’s hardware, software and support capabilities, following Mirantis’ build-operate-transfer delivery model in May 2017.[53]

Acquisitions

In 2016, Mirantis acquired TCP Cloud, a Czech startup that developed managed services for OpenStack, had expertise in Kubernetes and containers, and was a top contributor of OpenContrail.[54][55]

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