Nimbula to Add Support for VMware vSphere

Announces auto-scaling and auto-discovery of resources capabilities for VMware Cloud Foundry.

Nimbula, a startup founded by former Amazon executives, yesterday made two announcements around VMware technology and products that further position Nimbula Director as a leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) layer for enterprises and service providers.

The company states that:

VMware Cloud Foundry, an open Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), will be integrated with Nimbula Director using the company's Virtual Services framework.
Nimbula Director will add support for VMware vSphere. The addition of support for VMware vSphere will enable customers to leverage its orchestration features on top of the VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure platform. This support will be made available in an upcoming version of Nimbula Director.

It further states that Nimbula Director Virtual Services is a framework that facilitates the provisioning of application, network and core services on top of Nimbula Director. Services run inside a virtual machine providing isolation, high-availability and elasticity. With this integration, Nimbula Director delivers:

Auto-scaling Cloud Foundry: Nimbula Director's Virtual Services will detect when the pool of available Droplet Execution Agents (DEAs) are fully occupied, and automatically start new virtual machines to expand the pool of DEAs. Auto-scaling is also enabled for other Cloud Foundry related services like MongoDB and Redis.
Auto discovery of services: Cloud Foundry on Nimbula Director can provide fully dynamic service discovery, paving the way for auto-scaling Cloud Foundry. This capability creates a simplified model for dynamic service discovery, even across multi-node configurations.
Strong identity and security for multi-tenancy: Running Cloud Foundry on Nimbula's unique IaaS platform, PaaS deployments from multiple tenants can be run in a shared cloud with complete isolation from each other. The PaaS applications and end users for one tenant will be completely isolated from each other in terms of identity, network access, and resource contention.

"Cloud Foundry is a good example of how PaaS can help IT accelerate application delivery and therefore innovation," said Willem van Biljon, Co-founder and VP of Products at Nimbula. "We are committed to delivering great infrastructure support for it and helping further the transition to a developer friendly world."

"Cloud Foundry is the industry's first open PaaS implementation, giving developers a choice of clouds to which to deploy their applications," said Jerry Chen, Vice President, Cloud Application Platform Product Management, VMware. "We're delighted Nimbula's Cloud Foundry integration is giving developers yet another option in a multi-cloud world."