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

    March 13, 2013

    Business
    cloud computing, IBM, Nimbula, OpenStack, oracle, Oracle Corporation, VMware, Yandex
     

    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…

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  • Nimbula Joins the OpenStack Community

    October 15, 2012

    Business
    amazon web services, cloud computing, Marten Mickos, Nimbula, Nimbula Director, OpenStack, rackspace, Reza Malekzadeh
     

    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…

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  • Nimbula Launches Version 2 of Director

    February 13, 2012

    Business
    amazon, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, Nimbula, OpenStack, vCloud, VMware, VMware ESX
     

    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…

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  • Nimbula for Geographically Distributed Clouds

    August 15, 2011

    Business
    Amazon EC2, Citrix Systems, enStratus, Nimbula, OpenStack, Reza Malekzadeh, user interface
     

    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…

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  • Witsbits Go Cloud–Internal Cloud for SMBs

    August 3, 2011

    Business
    cloudcomputing, Nimbula, Service provider, Small and medium enterprises, Witsbits
     

    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…

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  • Nimbula goes GA and Creates an Ecosystem

    March 8, 2011

    Business
    Amazon EC2, enStratus, Nimbula, Opscode, Puppet Labs, Scalr, Skytap, VMware
     

    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…

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  • Nimbula Goes Public (in Beta at Least)

    December 6, 2010

    Business
    cloud computing, Nimbula
     

    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…

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  • Cloud.com Offers Support For VMware

    August 23, 2010

    Analysis
    Cloud.com, cloudcomputing, Nimbula, OpenStack, Peder Ulander, VMware, VMware vSphere
     

    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…

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  • Private Cloud Redux – Nimbula Bets on Today’s Reality

    June 23, 2010

    enterprise, Product reviews
    amazon, Nimbula, private cloud
     

    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…

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