The OpenNebula Project Releases Version 2.0 of its Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing
By Dsa Research Group, PRNESunday, October 24, 2010
This New Version is the Result of Close Collaborations With Leading IT Organizations That Have Used OpenNebula to Build Large-scale Production Cloud Infrastructures in Both Industry and Academia
MADRID, October 25, 2010 - The OpenNebula Project announced today a major new release of its
OpenNebula Toolkit, a fully open source cloud computing tool for managing a
data center's virtual infrastructure. The toolkit includes features for
integration, management, scalability, security and accounting that many
enterprise IT shops need for private and hybrid cloud adoption. This newest
release also emphasizes standardization, interoperability and portability,
providing cloud users and administrators with a choice of several popular
cloud interfaces and hypervisors, and a flexible architecture that can
accommodate practically any hardware and software combination in a data
center.
"This new version has matured thanks to an active and engaged community,"
said Ignacio M. Llorente, co-lead and Director of the OpenNebula Project. "By
being fully open-source and having a flexible and extensible architecture,
several users have been able to contribute innovative new features and many
others have provided valuable feedback that allowed us to focus on features
that were truly of interest to our users."
OpenNebula is downloaded several thousands of times per month from its
website, and is widely used across multiple industries, such as Hosting,
Telecom, HPC, or eGovernment.
"OpenNebula is the result of many years of research and the interaction
with some of the major players in the Cloud arena. From the beginning,
OpenNebula has been designed to be flexible enough to adapt to any
infrastructure environment and to scale to hundreds of thousands of virtual
machines and cores," said Ruben S. Montero, co-lead and Chief Architect of
the OpenNebula Project.
About the OpenNebula Project
OpenNebula is an open-source project aimed at building the industry
standard open source cloud computing tool for managing distributed data
center infrastructures. OpenNebula was first established as a research
project in 2005 and made its first public release in March 2008. OpenNebula
is being used as an open platform for innovation in several flagship
international projects to research the challenges that arise in cloud
management, and also as production-ready tool in both academia and industry.
C12G Labs provides value-added professional services to create solutions,
products and services based on OpenNebula.
For more info: www.OpenNebula.org
Ignacio M. Llorente, contact at opennebula.org, +34-91-3947616
Tags: Dsa Research Group, Madrid, October 25, Spain