Nimbula Releases Nimbula Director 1.5

The software helps enterprises and service providers build powerful private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Nimbula, a startup founded by former Amazon executives, yesterday announced the immediate availability of Nimbula Director 1.5, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for managing compute and storage resources. The software helps enterprises and service providers build powerful private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure.

The company says that Nimbula Director 1.5 supports a geographically distributed cloud. The software can manage this multi-site cloud from a single view. This dramatically improves the cloud experience for end users because they now have a single login from which they can access any resource worldwide and deploy their workloads to any site in a self-service manner.

It claims that in addition to executing on the core vision of a global cloud, the company has delivered critical functionality for taking Nimbula Director clouds into production while ensuring simple and efficient operations with these features:

Policy based automation for compute and storage that delivers an extremely simple mechanism for requesting resources
Persistent block store that offers the self-service interfaces of cloud storage with enterprise-class service level selection across a wide range of vendors
Simplicity with flexibility provides a customizable installer for packaging a choice of operating system, drivers and management software

The company articulates that it continues to grow its best-of-breed partner ecosystem to expand support of Nimbula Director from Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and DevOps application lifecycle management to persistent storage solutions. It announced partnerships with Atalanta Systems, Electric Cloud and Standing Cloud in order to provide the optimal platform for developers to build and deploy applications. The company also announced partnerships with Gluster and Scality to expand Nimbula Director's support for persistent storage solutions with world-class storage leaders.

It mentions that Nimbula Director 1.5 is available for download at: http://nimbula.com. Pricing and packaging remain unchanged. For deployments on infrastructure up to and including 40 cores, Nimbula Director is licensed free of charge. A paid support option is available for users of the free version. For deployments on infrastructure with more than 40 cores, Nimbula Director is licensed on an annual subscription basis and includes both maintenance and support services.

"Nimbula is continuing its commitment in building a rich, diverse partner base to serve the new use cases and solutions enabled by cloud computing," said Reza Malekzadeh, VP of Marketing at Nimbula. "We are able to strengthen our complete end-to-end solution offerings by supporting PaaS and DevOps use cases for agile application development and by supporting additional storage solutions."

"Interest in private and hybrid clouds is growing at an incredible pace, and Nimbula has put together a hugely polished and well architected solution. Integrating with Chef makes that story even more compelling, and we're thrilled that Nimbula has chosen us to be a part of both writing and telling that story, and bringing its benefits to the market," said Helena Nelson-Smith, Founder and CEO of Atalanta Systems.

"Cloud infrastructure is widely used among engineering teams in the enterprise to support software development, testing and deployment. Nimbula Director is designed to service that market. With Nimbula and Electric Cloud, teams can automatically manage the lifecycle of cloud resources to achieve greater development agility, create higher quality software and speed time-to-market," quoted Mike Maciag, CEO of Electric Cloud.

"Standing Cloud's partnership with Nimbula is an exciting development in the industry. Now, service providers can offer PaaS along with their public IaaS, without additional effort. A Nimbula-based cloud will be immediately differentiated from infrastructure-only offerings. For the service provider's customers, Standing Cloud's PaaS lets them set up applications in minutes and provides an easy interface for developing and managing those applications," said David J. Jilk, CEO of Standing Cloud.

"Adoption of cloud computing is increasing dramatically and enterprises are quickly realizing the importance in selecting a scale-out storage solution that will meet the needs of these new highly-dynamic cloud environments. Our scale-out NAS storage perfectly complements Nimbula's innovative cloud solutions and allows joint customers to achieve flexible and scalable storage cost effectively. We are extremely pleased with this partnership and the value it brings our customers," stated Lori Budin, VP, Channels and Partnerships at Gluster.

"Scality is pleased to compliment Nimbula's innovative cloud computing solution with our object based storage offering. Together these solutions provide an integrated private, public or hybrid cloud offering," mentioned Brad King, Director of Customer Architecture at Scality.