The infrastructure will be focused on reliable high performance, cost efficiency, multi-domain automation
Rakuten Symphony announced an agreement to acquire cloud technology start-up, Robin.io. The addition of Robin.io’s multi-cloud mobility, hyper-automation and orchestration capabilities to the Rakuten Symphony portfolio allows the creation of highly efficient, consistent high performance cloud infrastructure and operations, from edge to central data centre.
Collaboration between Rakuten and Robin.io has already been underway for more than two years since Rakuten Mobile leveraged Robin.io in production for the Japan deployment of the world’s first end-to-end fully virtualised cloud-native mobile network. Rakuten Symphony and Robin.io are coming together to accelerate further and strengthen the complete end to end automated cloud offering for customers across the globe.
“Edge cloud requirements are unique and critical as mobile operators transition to 5G: The next era of digital experience requires another level of performance, responsiveness and consistency that enables telecom operator and enterprise transformation to be safely accelerated while creating a platform to support the next ten years of experiences. Robin.io’s cloud capability is proven to be effective for the most demanding workloads in mobile, and we believe it will allow Rakuten Symphony to safely accelerate cloud-native transformation for our customers and prepare the industry for the future. We plan to continue to invest into Robin.io’s cloud-native portfolio of products to advance our capabilities further and offer the most advanced and highly integrated cloud platform mobile operators demand,” said Tareq Amin, CEO, Rakuten Symphony.
Adding Robin.io’s portfolio for cloud-native deployment, lifecycle management, and orchestration will allow Rakuten Symphony to deploy highly reliable, flexible, scalable, secure and resilient mobile networks built on open interfaces, virtualisation principles of interoperability. Together, the combined companies will aim to deliver industry-leading solutions for various traditional enterprise opportunities in areas of enterprise applications, data management, cloud and virtualisation. Following the acquisition, Partha Seetala will take up the position of President of the Unified Cloud business unit of Rakuten Symphony.
