New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- Renowned open source solutions provider Red Hat Inc has signed an agreement with Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) to allow the network service provider to leverage its Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to transform its distributed network data centers to open standards, open interfaces based 'Universal Cloud'. These will be also extended to serve third party workloads.

VIL believes that with this largest distributed cloud deployment in the country, the company will be rapidly transforming its 100+ data centers across a 'Universal Cloud', where a shared software platform is capable of running multiple workloads e.g. Network, IT and third part...