NEC Reinforces its Open Stack-based Cloud Infrastructure Solutions with Network and Security Orchestration

TOKYO:  NEC, a provider of IT services and solutions, announces partnership with UBIqube, a provider of network and security orchestration software, to reinforce its portfolio of Open Stack-based cloud infrastructure Solutions -NEC Cloud System- which is an Open Source Software building model.

NEC has integrated its- NEC Cloud System with UBIqube’s MSActivator Orchestration Framework to address the growing demand from enterprises and service operators, who are in search of orchestration agents capable to manage emerging networking trends such as Software-DefinedNetworking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). NEC is now able to provide these services along with managing multivendor networking hardware.

"NEC is pleased with this partnership with UBIqube which will further reinforce the ecosystem to deliver an open best-of-breed NFV-based solutions to our customers," says Nobuhiko Kishinoue, General Manager of Cloud Platform Division, NEC. "We will continue to improve the quality of customer experience to help our customers bring new innovative services to market more quickly and efficiently."

"We believe NEC has engineered an ambitious, cloud solution paradigm meant to broaden adoption of such technologies to the benefit of the industry as a whole," says Nabil Souli, CEO of UBIqube. "Being associated with such an endeavor is a credit to the creativity our engineers have put into designing the most versatile network orchestrator in the industry."