OpenStack vendor Mirantis has scored a big win, landing automobile giant Volkswagen Group as a new cloud customer. The auto giant will use Mirantis OpenStack cloud technology across all of its brands, including Audi, VW, Porsche, Bentley and Skoda, to enable a more agile DevOps model for building applications that support customers and partners around the world.
Multiple vendors, including Red Hat, vied for the business. Additionally, VW’s rigorous vendor selection process involved testing cloud operations across 67 different use cases.