PLUMGrid’s Open Networking Suite now available in the Charm Store

Canonical, the leading provider of services for Ubuntu deployments in the enterprise, and PLUMgrid, the industry leader for secure and scalable virtual network infrastructure for OpenStack clouds, today announced PLUMgrid Open Networking Suite (ONS) charms are now available in the Juju Charm Store. With 300 charms and growing, the Juju Charm Store is the destination for cloud-based enterprise infrastructure technologies and cloud applications.

PLUMgrid ONS for OpenStack is a comprehensive software suite that enables secure and scalable virtual network infrastructure for SDN and NFV deployments. PLUMgrid ONS provides secure data center segmentation with traffic isolation and policy enforcements for multi-tenancy. Built on PLUMgrid Platform® and IO Visor® technology, ONS enables terabits of scale out performance, production grade resiliency and rapid  service insertion to connect applications seamlessly across virtual machines, containers, and bare metal resources.

“Ubuntu OpenStack is a popular option for enterprises and service providers looking to deploy OpenStack quickly, with tight integration between the host OS and the software distribution. With charms now available for PLUMgrid ONS, customers can choose best-in-class OS, distro and networking overlay with OIL validation and be assured that the level of integration and reliability are unparalleled.” Wendy Cartee, VP of Product Management and Marketing at PLUMgrid

“With Juju charms for PLUMGrid Open Networking Suite now available, Ubuntu OpenStack customers will have an easy to deploy, complete solution for highly scalable, secure, multi-tenant private cloud network infrastructure.  Customers can then select additional Juju charms to rapidly deploy any workload into their clouds.” Ron Bassett, Director of Cloud Alliances at Canonical

PLUMgrid is a valued partner of Canonical’s Charm Partner Program and its OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL). OIL is an industry-first lab where Canonical tests partners’ cloud products with multiple Ubuntu OpenStack configurations, testing over 3,000 OpenStack cloud combinations and configurations per month.  Juju charms are used to deploy Ubuntu OpenStack and partner products in the lab.

The Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’scloud modelling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling at the click of a button. Juju makes it easy to deliver complete solutions in  minutes, on virtually any public or private cloud.

To learn more about Canonical’s partner programmes, please visit http://partners.ubuntu.com/.