Juniper Contrail SDN Joins Mirantis OpenStack Party

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Mirantis Inc. announced the integration of Contrail, a software-defined networking (SDN) overlay platform from Juniper Networks Inc., into its "pure-play" OpenStack distribution.
The Mirantis OpenStack distribution will support and interoperate with JuniperContrail Networking, a standards-based SDN solution for providing cloud services to multiple tenants in multi-location and hybrid cloud scenarios.Mirantis OpenStack also supports and works with OpenContrail, an open source SDN project upon whichthe Juniper offering is based.
The move highlights the shakeout of the young SDN technologies and movement toward interoperability, partnerships and increased customer choice. Mirantis exec Nick Chase published a blogpost last week in which he noted the new partnership comes shortly after the company integrated with technologies from VMware Inc. and offers another choice for enterprises.

"So, with this Juniper integration, Mirantis will support both VMware vCenter Server and VMware NSX or Juniper Networks Contrail Networking," Chase said. "That means thatevenif [customers have] VMware in their environment, they can choose to use NSX or Contrail for their networking components."
http://onexin.iyunv.com/source/plugin/onexin_bigdata/https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2015/03/23/~/media/ECG/adtmag/Images/2015/01/opencontrail_s.png[Clickon image for larger view.]Logical Connectivity Map of Juniper Contrail Networking Integrated to OpenStack (source: Mirantis Inc.)To help those customers integrate the two solutions, Mirantis and Juniper published areferencearchitecture for guidance on best practices for hooking up Juniper Contrail SDN with a newMirantis OpenStack 6.xcloud deployment.
"Although SDN has the potential to provide the enterprise with numerous advantages, including the ability to enable multitenancy and adjust the network based on current conditions, actually deploying it can be so challenging that many organizations find itdifficult to realize the benefits that SDN provides," Juniper said in a PDF explaininghow the Mirantis OpenStack distribution works with Contrail and Fuel, an open source tool for simplifying OpenStack deployments and management.
"Also, the initial learning and deployment curve of OpenStack can be a daunting project for IT administrators looking to break free from costly and proprietary technologies of the past," Juniper continued. "Fortunately, by abstracting this process, it is possibleto deploy and configure SDN without ever having to touch the low-level code."
The companies plan to release a Fuel plug-in in thesecondquarter of this year to increase automation and make OpenStack cloud deployment easier.
"According to a recent report by 451 Research LLC, the OpenStack market size is estimated toreach $1.7 billion by 2016," the companies said in a news release. "Enterprises and services providers are increasingly looking to open source software for its increased flexibility, cost savings, no vendor lock-in and the ability to customize integrationwith other infrastructure and applications."

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