Ericsson and Quanta team up to globally industrialize the cloud
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
· Ericsson and Quanta Computer have formed a strategic partnership to scale
the design, development and manufacturing of datacenter solutions.
· Ericsson has joined Open Compute Project (OCP) to drive adoption of
datacenter solutions based on software defined infrastructure and Intel® Rack
Scale Architecture.
· Ericsson Hyperscale Datacenter System portfolio expands with form factor
and component alternatives while maintaining one common software control layer
across.
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and Quanta Computer, one of the world's leading hardware
manufacturer headquartered in Taiwan, have entered a strategic partnership to
scale the design, development and manufacturing of an expanded next generation
datacenter solution based on the Ericsson Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000.
To further accelerate the adoption of the next generation datacenter solution,
Ericsson has joined the OCP, focusing on hardware design for scale-out data
center solutions, as a Platinum member. Ericsson will contribute with new OCP
designs to drive continued leadership and adoption of the Intel® Rack Scale
Architecture with open form factors.
Through the partnership with Quanta, Ericsson will extend its portfolio and
introduce electrical server and rack choices in addition to current optical
solutions. The extended portfolio will be available in the current design, and
in the future, in OCP compliant designs. All designs and component alternatives
shall be managed under one common software control plane, to enable continuous
management improvement, analytical insights and preparing for future automation
and machine learning opportunities.
Furthermore Ericsson will explore how to leverage its existing global services
capabilities to deliver services for direct Ericsson customers and for customers
with Quanta led sales.
Mike Yang, senior vice president and general manager of Quanta Computer, Inc.
says: "We are very excited to work with Ericsson on this project. Ericsson has a
proven delivery record, with both the technology and the services needed to
succeed at scale. They've built one of the world's largest distributed
infrastructures, accompanied by a global reach into more than 180 countries.
Together, we are bringing open, agile and proven solutions to the market via the
HDS 8000 platform and Open Compute standards."
Corey Bell, CEO of The Open Compute Project, says: "We're thrilled to welcome
Ericsson as a platinum member to the OCP community and are confident that their
leadership and industry expertise aligns with our vision of bringing efficiency,
flexibility and scalability to IT infrastructure. Ericsson's membership
illustrates further momentum in the OCP ecosystem and will help drive faster
innovation in the industry."
Jason Waxman, corporate vice president, general manager Cloud Platforms Group,
Intel, says: "Ericsson's commitment to enabling software defined infrastructure
solutions is further amplified by this exciting partnership between Ericsson and
Quanta. By utilizing Intel technology along with best practices from Open
Compute Project and Intel® Rack Scale Architecture, the Hyperscale Datacenter
System 8000 will help to deliver scalable solutions that will make possible to
connect a world with billions of devices."
With the Quanta partnership and Platinum OCP membership, Ericsson is
accelerating its commitment to supporting customers' digital industrialization
journeys to 5G and the Internet of Things. This will be achieved by delivering
best-in-class solutions building on Ericsson's proven technology and services,
while leveraging Quanta's position as a leading supplier in the IT industry.
Howard Wu, Vice President and Head of Software Defined Infrastructure, Ericsson,
says: "We carefully selected our strategic partner, and given Quanta's
engineering excellence and their contribution to OCP, it is very clear to us who
the leader is when it comes to both innovation and disruption. The underlying
key technology is to build software-defined infrastructure that is capable of
scale and automation, and Quanta and Ericsson definitely share a common DNA of
pushing what is possible."
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