Nokia Selects Pure Storage to Power Telco Cloud on Red Hat OpenShift

Nokia has selected Pure Storage as the storage supplier for a reference architecture built on Red Hat OpenShift for its next-generation telco cloud.

Nokia and Pure Storage have partnered to use Red Hat OpenShift to power the telecom vendor's telco cloud. The action is a part of Nokia's broader strategy to lower costs, power consumption, and operational overhead across large-scale deployments.

Nokia is committed to Red Hat OpenShift because it offers a reliable, carrier-grade basis for its cloud-native network functions (CNFs) and its applications for autonomous network operation that will shape the telecom industry of the future. Nokia aims to deliver expected outcomes and repeatable services across multiple CNFs and deployment sites through a fully lifecycle-managed solution, by choosing Pure Storage to anchor the data layer.

Red Hat OpenShift was chosen by Nokia as their main reference platform for key network applications in June 2023. Nokia has now added Pure Storage as the data infrastructure foundation for the telco cloud reference architecture built on OpenShift.

Red Hat OpenShift serves as the basis for Nokia's CNFs, as the two companies have a long-standing and internationally validated partnership. This reliable partnership gives service providers a stable, transparent, and expandable platform for advanced offerings. By providing a high-performance, energy-efficient data layer that is already trusted by numerous international service providers operating Red Hat environments, Pure Storage improves this ecosystem.

Honoré LaBourdette, Vice President of Global Telco Ecosystem Success, Red Hat said that the trusted collaboration provides service providers with a robust, open, and scalable platform for innovative services. According to him Pure Storage enhances this ecosystem by delivering a high-performance, energy-efficient data layer that is already trusted by many global service providers running Red Hat environments.

Nokia, Red Hat, and Pure Storage work together to develop an end-to-end cloud-native stack for carrier-grade operations. Together, they provide skills that solve the unique difficulties that service providers face when implementing CNFs on a large scale. Each firm contributes proven telecommunications knowledge for modern transformation.