Nimbula
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Nimbula is a startup backed by Sequoia Capital
and Accel Partners
based out of Mountain View
. The company was founded by Chris Pinkham
and Willem Van Biljon
who led the team that created Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Nimbula develops cloud orchestration software for the implementation of public and private cloud computing
environments. Their software, Nimbula Director, is designed to make it easier for Service Providers and Enterprises to build, manage and deploy IaaS offerings similar to Amazon EC2. The company emerged from stealth mode in June 2010 and launched a public beta of its software in December 2010. Nimbula Director 1.0 was announced in March 2011 and released in April 2011.
(Infrastructure as a Service) style private, public and hybrid clouds. The software is aimed at both enterprise customers and service providers. It can manage both on- and off-premise infrastructure through a Web UI, an API or a command line interface.
Nimbula Director’s Key Features include
and Willem Van Biljon
in 2008. The company has raised a total of $20.75M in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and VMware.
Nimbula Director is the company’s flagship product. It enables users to build, manage and deploy compute cloud environments on their own infrastructure. The product is available as a public for download from https://nimbula.com/product/. The Nimbula Director license agreement allows deployment of the software on up to 40 CPU cores without a license fee.
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital is a Californian venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. The Wall Street Journal has called Sequoia Capital "one of the highest-caliber venture firms", and noted that it is "one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture-capital firms"...
and Accel Partners
Accel Partners
Accel Partners is a global venture and growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage.The firm is based in Palo Alto, California with major offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London, and Shanghai....
based out of Mountain View
Mountain View
-Canada:*Mountain View County, Alberta, a municipal district*Mountain View, Alberta, a hamlet in Cardston County*Mountain View, Ontario, a community in Prince Edward County*Mountain View No...
. The company was founded by Chris Pinkham
Chris Pinkham
Chris Pinkham is an entrepreneur and technologist born in Singapore, raised and educated in Britain and South Africa.Chris was formerly Vice President, IT Infrastructure at Amazon.com, responsible for the company's global infrastructure engineering and operations...
and Willem Van Biljon
Willem Van Biljon
Willem van Biljon is an entrepreneur and technologist born, raised and educated in South Africa. Willem graduated from the University of Cape Town with a degree in Computer Science....
who led the team that created Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Nimbula develops cloud orchestration software for the implementation of public and private cloud computing
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
environments. Their software, Nimbula Director, is designed to make it easier for Service Providers and Enterprises to build, manage and deploy IaaS offerings similar to Amazon EC2. The company emerged from stealth mode in June 2010 and launched a public beta of its software in December 2010. Nimbula Director 1.0 was announced in March 2011 and released in April 2011.
Features
Nimbula Director is a Cloud Operating System that allows users to implement IaaSIAAS
IAAS can refer to the following:*Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors, British professional body renamed 1993 as the Association of Building Engineers* Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, institute of Tribhuvan University, Nepal...
(Infrastructure as a Service) style private, public and hybrid clouds. The software is aimed at both enterprise customers and service providers. It can manage both on- and off-premise infrastructure through a Web UI, an API or a command line interface.
Nimbula Director’s Key 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 HypervisorHypervisorIn computing, a hypervisor, also called virtual machine manager , is one of many hardware virtualization techniques that allow multiple operating systems, termed guests, to run concurrently on a host computer. It is so named because it is conceptually one level higher than a supervisory program...
support from a single management pane - Support for Common Cloud APIs like Amazon Web Services API
- Support for Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs)Virtual machineA virtual machine is a "completely isolated guest operating system installation within a normal host operating system". Modern virtual machines are implemented with either software emulation or hardware virtualization or both together.-VM Definitions:A virtual machine is a software...
. - Integrate existing user services through support for Active Directory/LDAP.
- Elastic IPs and Security Groups
- Support for virtual ethernets, allowing to create isolated layer 2 networks
- Integrated system metrics and reporting that will allow for integration with chargeback systems
History
The company was first incorporated as Benguela and changed its name to Nimbula as it emerged from stealth mode in June 2010. Nimbula was founded by Chris PinkhamChris Pinkham
Chris Pinkham is an entrepreneur and technologist born in Singapore, raised and educated in Britain and South Africa.Chris was formerly Vice President, IT Infrastructure at Amazon.com, responsible for the company's global infrastructure engineering and operations...
and Willem Van Biljon
Willem Van Biljon
Willem van Biljon is an entrepreneur and technologist born, raised and educated in South Africa. Willem graduated from the University of Cape Town with a degree in Computer Science....
in 2008. The company has raised a total of $20.75M in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and VMware.
Products
Nimbula DirectorNimbula Director is the company’s flagship product. It enables users to build, manage and deploy compute cloud environments on their own infrastructure. The product is available as a public for download from https://nimbula.com/product/. The Nimbula Director license agreement allows deployment of the software on up to 40 CPU cores without a license fee.
Release History
| Product | Released | Highlighted Features |
|---|---|---|
| Nimbula Director v1.0 | April 6, 2011 | |
| Nimbula Director v1.5 | September 26, 2011 | |