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Nimbula Unveils Nimbula Director 2.0, Delivers Amazon EC2-Like Functionality to VMware Users
SANTA CLARA, CA, Feb 13, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Today at Cloud Connect, Nimbula, the Cloud Operating System
Company, introduced Nimbula Director 2.0 which dramatically enhances
its public, private and hybrid cloud capabilities for enterprises,
SaaS companies, governments and service providers. The new release
introduces groundbreaking new functionality requested by Nimbula's
growing customer base and advances Nimbula's technology vision.
"Nimbula Director 2.0 is an important milestone and huge leap forward
for us and our customers," said Chris Pinkham, Co-Founder and CEO.
"We continue to deliver the best-in-class operational experience with
easy install and seamless management of the infrastructure and have
added more unique capabilities to our growing list of innovative
features."
Nimbula is announcing enhancements in Nimbula 2.0 on five critical
fronts:
1. Extensibility: Nimbula Director is the industry's first truly
extensible cloud platform. Its functionality can be augmented by
third parties who can provide network, data, PaaS or other cloud
services. Those services and their custom logic are embedded into the
cloud, are run and managed as if they were written by Nimbula and
inherit all of Nimbula Director's high availability, multi-tenancy
and network security functionality. Services are therefore easy to
integrate, inherit a wide range of management functionality and are
presented seamlessly to the tenants of the cloud.
2. VMware Support: Nimbula Director is the first Cloud OS to bring
the benefits of an EC2-style cloud to VMware customers with its
support of the ESXi hypervisor. In addition, Nimbula Director will
support VMware's Cloud Foundry PaaS solution, and Nimbula is now a
member of VMware's Technology Alliance Program (TAP).
3. Application Management: Nimbula Director is extending its
management from the control plane up into the end user application
space. Customers can now orchestrate the provisioning of complex
applications and have the system monitor and manage applications over
their lifetimes. As a result, customer applications become as
reliable as the Nimbula control plane without any need to alter the
application.
4. DNS and VPN services: This release rounds out the IaaS networking
feature set, which also includes DHCP, NAT, firewall and VLAN
services, providing a complete set of networking services required
for running real world applications. Nimbula Director makes network
configuration completely self-service, decreasing provisioning times
and lowering the burden from the IT staff of enterprises and service
providers alike.
5. Enterprise Readiness: Nimbula has furthered
its enterprise readiness lead releasing the only production ready
cloud infrastructure solution by, among other things, introducing a
scalable distributed backend database, using an SELinux base for its
node software, and introducing more enterprise systems management
functionality and adding quota management as well.
"Nimbula Director impressed us with its security model, which was a
key reason for choosing it for our cloud deployment," said Matt
Regan, Program Manager at Solers, an information technology solutions
provider for the United States government. "The software already had
a truly unique advanced permissioning and firewall functionality, and
it is great to see more security related advances in this new
version."
"After evaluating several cloud platforms, we found that Nimbula
Director was the only one that had the implementation excellence,
ease of management, reliability and elasticity to help us with our
public and private cloud projects," said Sofiane Ammar, Founder and
CEO at VirtualScale, a system integrator focused on building public
and private cloud projects. "Their implementation is second to none,
and we are excited to see how they are growing their capabilities and
adding new functionality."
Availability and Pricing
Nimbula Director 2.0 is currently in beta
and is expected to be generally available in March 2012. The new
release is a free update for existing users. For deployments on
infrastructure up to and including 40 cores, Nimbula Director is
licensed free of charge. A paid support option is available for users
of the free version. For deployments on infrastructure more than 40
cores, Nimbula Director is licensed on an annual subscription basis
and includes both maintenance and support services. For more details
on pricing, please contact Nimbula by visiting:
http://nimbula.com/company/contact/.
About Nimbula
Founded by the team that developed the
industry-leading Amazon EC2, Nimbula delivers a comprehensive cloud
operating system that uniquely combines the scalability and
operational efficiencies of the public cloud with the control,
security and trust of today's most advanced data centers. Nimbula was
named one of the most promising startups in The Wall Street Journal
and was dubbed "one of three cloud properties ready to burst" in
Fortune. Nimbula is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For
more information, visit http://nimbula.com.
Media and Analyst Contact for Nimbula:
Amber Rowland
amber@therowlandagency.com
+1-650-814-4560
SOURCE: Nimbula
mailto:amber@therowlandagency.com
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