OVERLAND PARK, Kan. and
LONDON, Aug. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to
increasing demand for flexible, open source and cost-predictable
cloud solutions, QTS Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: QTS) and
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating
system for container cloud, scale out, and hyperscale computing,
announced today a private, fully managed OpenStack cloud solution
available from any of QTS' geographically diverse and highly secure
data centers in mid-September.
Built on Ubuntu OpenStack, the world's most popular OpenStack
distribution, and using Canonical's application modeling service
Juju as well as Canonical's Bare Metal as a Service (MaaS), QTS'
private, fully managed OpenStack cloud enables enterprise customers
to perform quick and easy provisioning, orchestration, and
management of cloud resources. Examples include:
- Building software-as-a-service applications, either as new
developments or as improvements upon existing solutions.
- Serving as a base for delivering self-service storage and
service on demand to users who need IT services.
- Delivering object storage or block storage on demand.
- Saving on licensing fees associated with virtualization
technologies.
In addition to the Private Cloud offering, QTS will offer a
public, multi-tenant pay-as-you-go OpenStack cloud solution that is
self-provisioning, elastic and highly scalable.
"As a leading data center and IT infrastructure services
provider, QTS is focused on delivering seamless hybrid cloud
hosting solutions using proven, best-in-breed platform
technologies," said Anand Krishnan,
Executive Vice President, Canonical Cloud. "We are pleased to
support QTS' delivery of OpenStack solutions that combine the rapid
availability and elasticity of compute resources with the security
and control their enterprise customers demand to support their
mission critical applications and workloads."
The new OpenStack solution is an important addition to QTS'
expanding portfolio of scalable, secure and compliant IaaS
solutions and complements other QTS' purpose-built clouds serving
public sector, healthcare and enterprise workloads.
"QTS OpenStack Cloud is the latest addition as we expand our
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings to create a one-stop
shop for flexible IaaS and hybrid IT solutions that address
increasingly diverse customer requirements," said Jon Greaves, Chief Technology Officer, QTS.
"Canonical is an industry leader in OpenStack management and
technologies and we look forward to working closely as we unleash
OpenStack Cloud solutions across our geographically diverse
platform of integrated data centers."
The fully managed cloud solution is being previewed at OpenStack
East in New York City August 23-24 at Canonical booth # H12.
About QTS
QTS Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: QTS) is a leading provider of
secure, compliant data center, hybrid cloud and managed services.
QTS features the nation's only fully integrated technology
services platform providing flexible, scalable solutions for
the federal government, financial services, healthcare and
high tech industries. QTS owns, operates or manages more than 5
million square feet of data center space and supports more than
1,000 customers in North America,
Europe and Asia Pacific. In
addition, QTS' Critical Facilities Management (CFM) provides
increased efficiency and greater performance for third-party data
center owners and operators. For more information, please
visit www.qtsdatacenters.com, call toll-free 877.QTS.DATA or follow
us on Twitter @DataCenters_QTS.
About Canonical
Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the leading OS for
container, cloud, scale-out and hyperscale computing. 65% of
large-scale OpenStack deployments are on Ubuntu, using both KVM and
the pure-container LXD hypervisor for the world's fastest private
clouds. Canonical provides enterprise support and services for
commercial users of Ubuntu.
Canonical leads the development of Juju, the model-driven
operations system, and MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service), which creates a
physical server cloud and IPAM for amazing data centre operational
efficiency. Canonical is a privately held company.
Media
Contacts:
Carter B. Cromley
QTS
(703) 861-7245
Media
Contacts:
Rebecca Cradick
Canonical Cloud Division
+44 (0) 7795 603735
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