Vodafone Idea partners Red Hat to transform data centres

Bengaluru: Open source solutions provider Red Hat on Monday announced a partnership with telecom major Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) to transform its distributed network data centres to open standards, open interfaces based “Universal Cloud”.
VIL will be rapidly transforming its over 100 data centres across a “Universal Cloud,” where a shared software platform is capable of running multiple workloads — network, IT and third party applications across its distributed Cloud locations.
VIL said it now plans to extend this Universal Cloud as a platform to third-party workloads.”
“Our collaboration with Red Hat has helped us deploy Universal Cloud based on open standards and systems,” Vishant Vora, Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone Idea Limited, said in a statement.