VMware and GigaSpaces Collaborate to Drive Open Network Functions Virtualization Orchestration
VMware, a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, and GigaSpaces, providers of software for cloud application orchestration, announced today a collaboration to advance open, standards-based orchestration for network functions virtualization (NFV) applications.
The new availability provides customers choice in open NFV orchestration for Telco Cloud environments, Via, TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications)-based Cloudify, from GigaSpaces which supports the VMware vCloud NFV Platform.
Zeev Bikowsky, Chief Executive Officer at GigaSpaces explained that customers value open, standards-based framework for orchestration, because it allows customers to control as they move to the cloud with NVF. The future will hold further collaboration to develop and offer agility in the development of open source orchestrations based on TOSCA.
Bikowsky explains the significance of this new offering:
“Implementing NFV requires a robust NFV infrastructure, and the agility provided by comprehensive NFV and multi-cloud orchestration, to deliver complete virtualized network services to customers. GigaSpaces Cloudify is an open source TOSCA -based cloud orchestration software platform. VMware vCloud NFV is a carrier-grade, production-proven NFV services delivery, operations and management platform that offers a common platform and operating model to enable multi-vendor, multi-domain services.”
The magic behind the new partnership is that when used together, Cloudify with vCloud NFV can enable carriers to leverage VMware infrastructure assets and skill sets with open source TOSCA-based orchestration from GigaSpaces. Users can to deploy virtual network functions (VNFs) over hybrid cloud architectures, creating an automated lifecycle management of critical network functions and services.
Users will also be able to correlate information gathered through the VMware infrastructure with application requirements gathered through Cloudify, to help deliver the best performance and utilization of the underlying resources.
As part of this collaboration, in the short future, GigaSpaces will be releasing the new, VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack, which will enable infrastructure, event correlation, event notification and response, and policy management. This will enable closed loop service remediation, proactive capacity planning and scaling.
Learn more about the VMware vCloud NFV Platform, or see what VMware NFV partners are demonstrating at Mobile World Congress!
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