Okestro, an artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure software company, is widening its push into replacing VMware in South Korea’s public sector with its win of a project to replace the external network virtualization system at Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Special City. Having handled the internal network cloud conversion last year and now securing the external network as well, the company has become the first case of unifying both the internal and external networks of a metropolitan government under a South Korean-made virtualization solution.
Okestro (co-CEOs Kim Beom-jae and Kim Young-kwang) said on the 6th that it had won the “Muan Government Complex Aging External Network Virtualization System Replacement” project pursued by Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Special City. The company will deploy its in-house server virtualization solution CONTRABASS to remove the existing VMware-based virtualization environment and build a private cloud for the external network.
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