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Nimbula was a computer software company that existed from 2008 to 2017. It developed software for the implementation of public and private cloud computing environments.[1]

History

The company was first incorporated as Benguela, based in Menlo Park, California with a development center in Cape Town, South Africa.[2][3] It was founded in late 2008 by Chris Pinkham and Willem Van Biljon, who had developed the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).[4] The company raised a total of $20.75 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and VMware.[5][6][7] Their software was designed to make it easier for service providers and enterprises to build, manage and deploy infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings similar to Amazon EC2.

The company emerged from stealth mode in June 2010 and changed its name to Nimbula.[8][9]Diane Greene and Roelof Botha became members of the board of directors at that time.[8][4] Eventually the company had its office in Mountain View, California. A public beta version of its software was announced in December 2010.[10] Nimbula Director 1.0 was released in April 2011.[11] Nimbula was Named a ‘Cool Vendor’ in Cloud Management by Gartner in April 2012.[12]

In October 2012, Nimbula joined the OpenStack Foundation.[13]

In March 2013, Nimbula was acquired by Oracle Corporation.[14]

Features

Nimbula Director software allows users to implement IaaS-style private, public and hybrid clouds. The software was aimed at both enterprise customers and service providers. It can manage both on- and off-premises infrastructure through a Web UI, an API or a command line interface.

Nimbula Director’s features include:

  • Control access to local and external cloud resources with a policy-based authorization system supporting multi-tenancy.
  • Hands-off automated installation on bare metal
  • Automated (zero touch) cluster expansion as new hardware is added
  • API to manage local and external cloud resources
  • Reduce demands on system administrators through low-touch automated cloud management.
  • Multiple hypervisor support from a single management pane
  • Support for common cloud APIs like Amazon Web Services API
  • Support for Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs)
  • Integrate existing user services through support for Active Directory/LDAP
  • Elastic IPs and security groups
  • Support for virtual Ethernets, allowing creation of isolated Layer 2 networks
  • Integrated system metrics and reporting that will allow for integration with chargeback systems

Nimbula's license agreement allowed deployment of the software on up to 40 CPU cores without a license fee.[15]

Release history

References

  1. ↑"Nimbula Inc - Company Profile and News". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  2. ↑Charles Babcock (August 26, 2010). "Nimbula Secures $15 Million Venture Capital Investment". Information Week. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
  3. ↑Jon Brodkin (June 15, 2010). "Amazon EC2 creators to launch cloud computing start-up: Benguela building cloud infrastructure software, with focus on virtualization". Network World. Archived from the original on December 29, 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
  4. 12Patrick Hoge (June 21, 2010). "Amazon vets start cloud computing firm". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
  5. ↑ "El club de los 20 millones de dólares: 10 startups en la nube con buena financiación" . 29 de octubre de 2010. Archivado del original el 31 de octubre de 2010.
  6. ↑ "Nimbula recauda 15 millones de dólares para expandir su servicio en la nube" . 23 de agosto de 2010.
  7. ↑
  8. 1 2 "Diane Greene está de vuelta: Nimbula abandona el modo sigiloso y entra en el mercado de la computación en la nube IaaS" . Virtualization.com . 23 de junio de 2010. Consultado el 6 de julio de 2013 .
  9. ↑ "Creador de Amazon EC2 lanza una startup de nube privada" . www.networkworld.com . Archivado del original el 7 de diciembre de 2010.
  10. ↑ Antone Gonsalves (7 de diciembre de 2010). "Nimbula lanza su sistema operativo en la nube en versión beta pública" . Information Week .
  11. ↑ "Nimbula anuncia la disponibilidad inmediata de Nimbula Director 1.0" . Comunicado de prensa . 6 de abril de 2011. Archivado del original el 7 de abril de 2011. Consultado el 6 de julio de 2013 .
  12. ↑ "Nimbula nombrada 'proveedor innovador' en gestión de la nube por una firma de análisis líder" . Comunicado de prensa . 16 de abril de 2012. Archivado del original el 6 de julio de 2013. Consultado el 6 de julio de 2013 .
  13. ↑ "Nimbula - la empresa de sistemas operativos en la nube - Comunicados de prensa" .
  14. ↑ "Orácle y Nimbula" . Oracle. 13 de marzo de 2013. Archivado del original el 8 de mayo de 2013.
  15. 1 2 "Nimbula lanza Nimbula Director 1.5 y amplía su ecosistema de socios en la nube" . Comunicado de prensa . 26 de septiembre de 2011. Archivado del original el 4 de octubre de 2011.
  16. ↑ "Nimbula Director KVM 64-bit v.2.0.1" . 14 de noviembre de 2012. Archivado del original el 12 de mayo de 2013.
  17. ↑ "Nimbula Director KVM 64-bit v.2.0.2" . 30 de julio de 2012. Archivado del original el 12 de mayo de 2013.
  18. ↑ "Nimbula Director KVM 64-bit v.2.0.3" . 7 de agosto de 2012. Archivado del original el 12 de mayo de 2013.
  19. ↑ "Nimbula Director KVM 64-bit v.2.0.3.1" . 12 de septiembre de 2012. Archivado del original el 12 de mayo de 2013.
  20. ↑ "Nimbula Director KVM 64-bit v.2.0.4" . 14 de noviembre de 2012. Archivado del original el 12 de mayo de 2013.
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