Tag Archives: Nimbula

March 13, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Oracle Acquires Nimbula–and by Default Becomes Part of OpenStack (OMFG)

By Ben Kepes

Now this is one for the books, Oracle this morning announced that it has acquired cloud operating system vendor Nimbula who, only last November, announced that it was joining the OpenStack initiative. From the announcement: Oracle announced it has agreed to acquire Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management

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October 15, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Nimbula Joins the OpenStack Community

By Ben Kepes

A piece of news that I’ve been aware of for a month or two now is today public knowledge – Nimbula (more on them here), the cloud infrastructure company famously founded by the team that developed Amazon’s prescient EC2 offering, is signing up to join the OpenStack community. Nimbula is

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February 13, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Nimbula Launches Version 2 of Director

By Ben Kepes

Ever since is launched, Nimbula has been focused on brining “Amazon-like” functionality to private data centers. There messaging has unwaveringly been about the agility and flexibility of the public cloud, for private data center operations. Their aim came another step closer today with the beta release of version two of

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August 15, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Nimbula for Geographically Distributed Clouds

By Ben Kepes

I’ve covered Nimbula previously, the company that is aiming to blend the scale enjoyed by public cloud providers like Amazon with the customization and control that private infrastructure enjoys. Nimbula has royal blood behind is with an executive/founder team of high fliers including the original team behind Amazon EC2. According

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August 3, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Witsbits Go Cloud–Internal Cloud for SMBs

By Ben Kepes

When talking around the public cloud/private cloud use cases, the commonly accepted approach is that private cloud is for large enterprises who have particular requirements (existing infrastructure, particular regulations etc) that demand the use of internal resource. Small and medium businesses tend not to have these factors in their organization

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March 8, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Nimbula goes GA and Creates an Ecosystem

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written previously about Nimbula (see here) the company founded by the creators of Amazon’s EC2 product to; Blend Amazon EC2-like scale, agility and efficiency, with private infrastructure customization and control Previously only available to beta testers, Nimbula is today making a double announcement, the first involved the release to

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December 6, 2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Nimbula Goes Public (in Beta at Least)

By Ben Kepes

In an announcement that, refreshingly, isn’t based around this weeks salesforce.com DreamForce conference, Nimbula (previous coverage here) today announced that its Nimbula Director product is being released as a public beta. Nimbula Director is essentially a way to deliver cloud-like services behind the firewall. It allows customers to manage both

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August 23, 2010 Posted in Analysis 1 Comment

Cloud.com Offers Support For VMware

By Krishnan Subramanian

Cloud.com, formerly VMOps and the company offering a seamless way to deploy and manage hybrid cloud infrastructure for both enterprises and service providers, has announced support for VMware vSphere 4.1 and vCenter server today. During VMworld, they will be demoing their Cloud Stack platform on top of vSphere showcasing their

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June 23, 2010 Posted in enterprise, Product reviews 1 Comment

Private Cloud Redux – Nimbula Bets on Today’s Reality

By Ben Kepes

A number of cloud commentators seem to get all pent up and in a state of agitated hand-wringing about private cloud. “But it’s not the true cloud” they say, having some sort of dogmatic view over what is, and isn’t cloud. In my mind – so long as it’s scalable

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