Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network

Create opportunities. Get ready to be Red Hat OpenStack-certified.

OpenStack is the fastest-growing open source cloud infrastructure project. As it continues to gain widespread acceptance, customers need to know that the OpenStack-related technologies they are adopting have been thoroughly tested together, resulting in certified solutions that are fully supported by the partners involved.

Now you can give them that assurance by becoming a participant in the Red Hat® OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network.

What is it and who can join?

This multitiered certification program is for third-party companies that develop hardware, devices, plug-ins, software applications, or services for use with Red Hat OpenStack. It provides a framework for your company to advance its technologies faster and more efficiently through Red Hat’s trusted certification process.

Three certification levels

The Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network features the following levels:

• Red Hat OpenStack Premier: Technologies fully and uniquely certified across Red Hat OpenStack
• Red Hat OpenStack Advanced: Specific technology integration with Red Hat OpenStack components, such as Nova, Cinder, and Quantum
• Red Hat OpenStack Ready: Basic technology compatibility with Red Hat OpenStack

Membership in the program gives you the resources, expertise, and tools to test and certify your technologies with Red Hat OpenStack technologies. Successful certification means that your solutions are integrated with Red Hat OpenStack technologies and are fully supported and validated as certified solutions.

Differentiate your business in the marketplace

Your participation in this program assures your customers that they’re engaging with an industry-leading solution provider that partners with one of the largest OpenStack project contributors—Red Hat—to test and certify the joint solution components as validated and fully supported.

Red Hat provides the latest OpenStack builds, certification criteria, tools, test suites, developer support, and a formalized process for certification submissions and approvals. After your solution is certified, Red Hat will publish the results and make them available in a variety of sales, marketing, and awareness activities to help speed up time to market and adoption by existing Red Hat customers.

Program benefits

Globally recognized as the world’s open source leader, Red Hat branding helps you:

• Stand out from competitors.
• Shorten the sales cycle.
• Create new business opportunities with help from Red Hat’s marketing and awareness activities.
• Expand your visibility to more than 1 million Red Hat customers.
• Get recognized by Red Hat's extensive network of global business partners.
• Access subject matter experts.
• Collaborate with Red Hat to accelerate upstream integration.

Everything you need to succeed

As a program participant, Red Hat gives you:

• Software for testing and certifying your products and solutions.
• Developer support to answer questions specific to testing and certifying your products and solutions with Red Hat OpenStack.
• A trusted certification process, including automated tools and submissions.
• Marketing and sales tools to shorten the time to market of your products with Red Hat OpenStack.
• Multiple levels of business and technical program benefits (dependent on the depth of integration with Red Hat OpenStack technologies).
• Additional program benefits and offerings to be announced.

Collaborative support and the certification process

We’re dedicated to helping our joint customers succeed as they deploy solutions developed by Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Certified Partners. To achieve this goal, we offer this Red Hat OpenStack technology certification. Working together, your support organization and Red Hat’s can more easily support and service our customers and resolve issues fast.

In June 2013, certified components will be published in the Red Hat marketplace, available to customers and other partners.

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Members

Acronis	Ansibleworks	Arista Networks	BigSwitch	Brocade
Dome9	EMC	Mellanox	Midokura	Mirantis
NEC	Netapp	Nuage	Palo Alto Networks	Pluribus Networks
SafeNet	ScaleIO	SGI	Solarflare	Storix
SwiftStack	Trapezoid	VMware	Zadara