Kaloom Extends Collaboration With Red Hat and Provides Unified Solution for Distributed Edge Computing

Kaloom, Inc. extended its collaboration with Red Hat, Inc. to provide an unified solution for distributed edge computing.

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This will allow network, compute and storage nodes to share the same underlying container-based execution environment. Integrating the company’s Cloud Edge Fabric with Red Hat OpenShift enables the platform to help simplify complex next-gen networks and accelerate time to market of new services while reducing the costs of edge infrastructure.

Service providers are being pushed to edge computing as a solution for reducing latency and throughput problems, while enhancing the user experience and driving efficiencies in day-to-day operations. Legacy cloud architectures will struggle to meet these varied requirements, meaning a shift is needed for building 5G networks, with an emphasis placed on supporting edge-native apps and delivering high performance at low cost. This jointly developed solution will help address these issues.

Components include:

• Cloud Edge Fabric which supports services chaining to improve overall networking efficiency. Hybrid 4G and 5G infrastructures can be supported with cloud native network function (CNF) fabric architecture

• 5G User Plane Function (UPF) – a performance, scalable, low latency cloud native solution

• Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to enable better control and better support for Kubernetes environments

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Solution for 5G era
Edge computing and the hybrid cloud are necessary components to help drive consistency across all infrastructure footprints. Compute resources are becoming increasingly vital at the network’s edge due to densification of data and traffic from billions of connected devices. Beyond devices, next-gen workloads are also driving demand for new investments that include virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), industrial automation, autonomous vehicles, interactive gaming, remote medicine.

As Kubernetes has become the standard for orchestration of containers on compute, the company has applied the same technology to the network component by integrating Red Hat OpenShift into its Cloud Edge Fabric. By using the same orchestration layer for these components, resources at the edge have been streamlined and optimized.

“We are excited to announce our jointly developed solution with Red Hat which solidifies the Kaloom Cloud Edge Fabric for edge data centers based on open networking principles with Red Hat OpenShift as the basis of a unified solution for network, compute and storage,” said Suresh Krishnan, CTO, Kaloom.

“We are pleased to work with Kaloom to announce a solution designed to deliver production-ready Linux containers and Kubernetes to service providers with Red Hat OpenShift, specifically for edge computing. Our extended collaboration in open source communities shows our shared commitment in moving networking capabilities in cloud native technologies towards an automated, unified approach based on open standards,” said Chris Wright, CTO, Red Hat.

“Edgecore is pleased to collaborate with Kaloom and Red Hat in support of their innovative Cloud Edge Fabric integrated with Red Hat OpenShift. The combined solution running on our open network switches deliver the performance and flexibility required to support complex next gen networks,” said Loren Staley, CTO, Edgecore Networks Corporation.

“We see tremendous value in collaborating with Kaloom and Red Hat, as we work together to reduce operational challenges associated with the deployment of edge computing at scale. Our fully integrated, optimized, deployment and management solution, called Lenovo Open Cloud Automation, enables our joint customers to accelerate the implementation of infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, firmware and software, from days to hours, resulting in up to 5x improvement in deployment times,” said Charles Ferland, VP and GM, networking and communication service providers, Lenovo Group Ltd.

About Kaloom
It is an emerging company developing a programmable and automated cloud-native edge data center networking software solution that will disrupt how distributed cloud edge and data center networks are built, managed and operated by telecom, fixed and mobile operators, data center and cloud service providers. The company comprises technology veterans with track records of delivering large-scale networking, analytics and AI-based solutions for the world’s largest networks. The firm is backed by investors including Fonds de solidarité FTQ and Somel Investments. The firm is based in the heart of the Quartier de l’innovation in Montréal, Québec, Canada, and in the Silicon Valley, CA.