Canonical and QTS Team on Private, Managed OpenStack Cloud Solution

For several years running, OpenStack Foundation surveys have revealed that Ubuntu is the most common platform for OpenStack deployments to be built on. Organizations report that they choose OpenStack and Ubuntu to save money and avoid vendor lock-in.  These themes have been emphasized by Canonical at OpenStack Summit.

Now, responding to what they describe as "increasing demand for flexible, open source and cost-predictable cloud solutions, QTS Realty Trust, Inc. and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, have announced a private, fully managed OpenStack cloud solution. It will be available from any of QTS' secure data centers in mid-September.

Built on Ubuntu OpenStack and using Canonical's application modeling service Juju as well as Canonical's Bare Metal as a Service (MaaS), QTS' OpenStack cloud will be fully managed. Essentially, organizations can treat it as a turnkey cloud solution.

Examples of what they can leverage 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 and elastic.

"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."

"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.