MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuage Networks, the Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) venture focused on software-defined networking (SDN) solutions, will provide support for Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux. The integration can enable greater choice and interoperability to enterprises and cloud providers, helping them to take advantage of the efficiency, performance, scalability, and policy-based automation of SDN in cloud environments.

Nuage Networks is committed to accelerating efforts to move customers toward cloud architectures that meld application-driven virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN) technology with open technology platforms. Nuage has been working together with Oracle to test Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux.

"Nuage Networks provides customers with valuable SDN capabilities. Its plug-in for Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux allows customers to benefit from our enterprise-grade solutions to further enhance their OpenStack environments," said Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president Linux and Virtualization Engineering, Oracle.

These solutions, which include capabilities across the data center network, can offer customers virtually seamless management for virtualized and non-virtualized infrastructures. Nuage Networks helps to virtualize and automate data center network infrastructure, transforming it into a reflexive environment that instantaneously establishes the network services required to deliver cloud applications across thousands of tenants in a policy-driven manner. The Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) lays the foundation for an open and dynamically controlled data center network fabric to accelerate application programmability, facilitate unconstrained mobility, and maximize compute efficiency for cloud service providers, Web scale operators and leading tech enterprises across the globe.

"We're pleased to work with Oracle on this Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux integration. It provides choice in an open cloud solution, optimized for enterprise workloads to mutual customers worldwide," said Sunil Khandekar, CEO of Nuage Networks. "This is great news for the OpenStack community as we continue to show momentum with OpenStack in enterprise and cloud provider deployments."

Visit Nuage Networks kiosk at Oracle Openworld 2014, Oracle Linux and Virtualization Showcase, Moscone South, Booth 611 - and the Nuage Networks demo session on Monday, Sept 29(th) 11:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m. at Moscone South, Booth 313 https://www.oracle.com/openworld/scene-be-heard/index.html.

ABOUT NUAGE NETWORKS
Nu-ahj: From French, meaning 'cloud'. Nuage Networks brings a unique combination of groundbreaking technologies and unmatched networking expertise to the enterprise and telecommunications industries. The Silicon Valley-based start up has applied radically new thinking to the problem of delivering massively scalable and high programmable SDN solutions with the security and availability required by business-critical environments. Nuage Networks, backed by Alcatel-Lucent's (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) rapidly growing IP division, has the pedigree to serve the needs of the world's biggest clouds. The cloud has made promises - the mission of Nuage Networks is to help you realize them.

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