Dell OEM Solutions today announced it has joined the Wind River Titanium Cloud ecosystem, a program dedicated to accelerating the deployment of solutions for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

By validating and pre-integrating their hardware and software offerings with Wind River Titanium Server , Titanium Cloud ecosystem partners deliver optimized solutions to help accelerate time-to-market for service providers and telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) deploying infrastructure based on NFV. Service providers and TEMs can confidently select these hardware and software products knowing that they are pre-validated with Titanium Server and ready for deployment in live networks.

"Wind River is an important player in the Telecommunications market as customers are migrating to Virtualized Workloads," said Joyce Mullen, vice president and general manager, OEM Solutions, Dell. "As Dell’s Telecommunications business continues its rapid growth, working with Wind River provides customers with a solution that enables them to migrate to x86 based technology. Wind River’s solutions allow customers to focus on their own intellectual property and accelerate time to market, in keeping with the core value proposition of Dell OEM Solutions.　 Joining the Titanium Cloud ecosystem provides our

"Service providers are looking for validated and market-ready end-to-end NFV solutions. To address this need, collaboration across the ecosystem is essential," said Charlie Ashton, senior director of business development for networking solutions at Wind River. "Through our Titanium Cloud program, we are partnering with leaders like Dell OEM Solutions to create optimized, interoperable solutions for service providers and TEMs who are deploying NFV in their networks. While Wind River’s Titanium Server provides a foundation for Carrier Grade NFV infrastructure, by leveraging other pre-validated NFV elements service providers can quickly achieve their goals such as reducing OPEX while accelerating the introduction of new high-value services."