OpenNebula Cloud on Ulitzer

The OpenNebula project has just announced that its OpenNebula Cloud has been updated o 3.2 and now offers a virtual computing environment accessible through two different remote cloud interfaces, OCCI and EC2, and  two different web interfaces,  Sunstone for cloud administrators and the new SelfService for cloud consumers. These mechanisms access the same infrastructure, i.e. resources created by any of the mentioned methods will be instantly available on the others. For instance, you can create a VM with the OCCI interface, monitor it with the EC2 interface, and shut it down using the OpenNebula Sunstone web interface. This Cloud has been migrated to the last OpenNebula version, 3.2. If you have an account you can still use your old username and password. If not, request a new account and check out the new OpenNebula 3.2 features. These interfaces will show you th... (more)

Managing Virtual Data Centers

A new episode of the screencast series is now available at the OpenNebula YouTube Channel. This screencast, second part of the oZones screencast, shows how to manage and use Virtual Data Centers, both with the oZones CLI and with the oZones web-based interface, to isolate virtual infrastructure environments. It shows how to create a VDC by assigning a group of users to a group of physical resources and by granting one of the users, the VDC administrator, with privileges to manage all virtual resources in the VDC. The users in the VDC, including the VDC administrator, only see th... (more)

The Top 150 Players in Cloud Computing

Cloud Expo Early Bird Savings A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to half as many again - testimony, if any further were needed, to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing. Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various services and solutions in this round-up are in e... (more)

OpenNebula 3.2 Cloud Platform Is Out

The OpenNebula project has just announced the availability of the stable release of OpenNebula 3.2. This release of OpenNebula features important improvements in security, networking and user management, and fully integrates C12G addons, previously only available for OpenNebulaPro customers. As main new features, OpenNebula 3.2 incorporates an easily-customizable self-service portal for end-users that greatly simplifies VM provisioning in the data center. This new update of OpenNebula also brings the highest levels of flexibility, stability, scalability and functionality for VMw... (more)

OpenNebula and Xen Collaborate to Build OpenNebula Clouds on XCP

The Xen.org and OpenNebula.org open source communities are working together to add XCP support to OpenNebula. This collaboration will produce the OpenNebula Toolkit for XCP, which will be hosted as freely available open source project on OpenNebula.org. The XCP project team and Xen.org community will provide technical guidance and assistance to the OpenNebula open-source project. “We are really excited to collaborate with Xen.org in offering Xen Cloud Platform support. This will be a huge step forward towards achieving a complete open-source stack for cloud infrastructure deploy... (more)