INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
Red Hat and Juniper
Networks expand
collaboration for multicloud
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ed Hat, the world’s leading provider
of open source solutions, and Juniper
Networks, an industry leader in
automated, scalable and secure networks,
have announced an initiative to provide a
unified solution for enterprises designed to
manage and run applications and services on
any virtual machine (VM), any container and
any cloud environment by more extensively
integrating Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform and Red Hat OpenStack Platform
with Juniper Contrail Enterprise Multicloud. At the same time, administrators often
need to provide innovative environments for
developing or hosting applications, delivering
automation and visibility for application
workloads, regardless of where they reside.
Modern, agile solutions can be used by
customers to fully address current and future
requirements, but this can be stymied by
existing proprietary technologies, which can
be slow to respond to change and can lock
customers into a monolithic, expensive and
difficult to maintain environment.
In an effort to move faster, reduce costs
and become more agile, many companies
have moved their workloads to the
cloud and container-based applications
which can be portable across hybrid or
multicloud environments. IT teams are
facing pressure to support new applications,
while simultaneously maintaining security,
compliance and cross-organisational
efficiencies for a consistent user experience. These new IT realities have resulted in an
industry gap for open source-based solutions
that can address these challenges with
not only a multicloud infrastructure and
container platform, but also a consistent
networking solution to help simplify
operations and introduce efficiencies.
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Red Hat and Juniper Networks are aiming to
alleviate these challenges with a joint solution
that can manage IT teams’ connectivity,
security and visibility all in one. By integrating
Red Hat OpenStack Platform, a highly-
scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
platform, and Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform, the industry’s most comprehensive
enterprise Kubernetes platform, with Contrail
Enterprise Multicloud, a multicloud-ready
networking, security, orchestration and
monitoring platform designed for any
workload and any cloud across multivendor
environments, Red Hat and Juniper aim to
enable enterprises to more easily manage
their full stack in hybrid or multicloud
environments with a unified solution, while
enabling enterprises to avoid unnecessary
vendor lock-in and hasten innovation.
Contrail Enterprise Multicloud orchestrates
end-to-end policy and control with or without
overlays designed to unify and centralise
application flow management and policy
controls for application and infrastructure
workloads. By providing
a packaged software-
defined networking (SDN)
platform with strong security
capabilities and monitoring,
Contrail Enterprise Multicloud
is designed to simplify and
eliminate deployment and
operation complexities,
while maintaining an open
and more secure cloud
environment. By offering
a solution that brings
together Juniper’s Contrail
Enterprise Multicloud, Red
Hat OpenShift Container
Platform and Red Hat
OpenStack Platform, the
companies are working
to deliver an open source-
based, multicloud alternative
to proprietary platforms. n
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