Nimbula
{{Short description|Software Company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Nimbula, Inc
| logo = File:Nimbula.jpg
| logo_caption =
| logo_size = 250px
| industry = Private and Public cloud computing, Internet hosting services
| type = Privately held company
| foundation = {{Start date |2010 |4 |10 }} {{small|(formerly known, in stealth mode, as Benguela, late 2008)}}
| location = {{Plainlist |
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| founder = {{Plainlist |
- Chris Pinkham
- Willem Van Biljon
}}
| products = Nimbula Director
| fate = Acquired by Oracle Corporation
| homepage = {{Official website |http://nimbula.com/ |name = Nimbula.com}}
}}
Nimbula was a computer software company that existed from 2008 to 2017. It developed software for the implementation of public and private cloud computing environments.{{Cite web |title=Nimbula Inc - Company Profile and News |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0346711Z:US |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=Bloomberg.com |language=en}}
History
The company was first incorporated as Benguela, based in Menlo Park, California with a development center in Cape Town, South Africa.{{Cite news |title= Nimbula Secures $15 Million Venture Capital Investment |work= Information Week |date= August 26, 2010 |author= Charles Babcock |url= http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/hosted/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227001128 |access-date= July 6, 2013 }}{{Cite news |title= Amazon EC2 creators to launch cloud computing start-up: Benguela building cloud infrastructure software, with focus on virtualization |date= June 15, 2010 |work= Network World |author= Jon Brodkin |url= http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/061510-benguela-cloud-computing.html }}
It was founded in late 2008 by Chris Pinkham and Willem Van Biljon, who had developed the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).{{Cite news |title= Amazon vets start cloud computing firm |work= San Francisco Business Times |date= June 21, 2010 |author= Patrick Hoge |url= http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/06/21/daily39.html |access-date= July 6, 2013 }}
The company raised a total of $20.75 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and VMware.{{cite web|url=http://gigaom.com/cloud/the-20-million-club-10-well-funded-cloud-startups/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031000937/http://gigaom.com/cloud/the-20-million-club-10-well-funded-cloud-startups/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 31, 2010|title = The $20 Million Club: 10 Well-Funded Cloud Startups|date = 29 October 2010}}{{cite web|url=https://venturebeat.com/2010/08/23/nimbula-funding/|title=Nimbula raises $15M to expand cloud service|date=23 August 2010}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20100625012231/http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/06/former-aws-execs-launch-nimbula.php]
Their software was designed to make it easier for service providers and enterprises to build, manage and deploy infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings similar to Amazon EC2.
The company emerged from stealth mode in June 2010 and changed its name to Nimbula.{{Cite news |title= Diane Greene is back: Nimbula leaves the stealth mode and enters the IaaS cloud computing market |work= Virtualization.com |date= June 23, 2010 |url= http://virtualization.info/en/news/2010/06/diane-greene-is-back-nimbula-leaves-the-stealth-mode-and-enters-the-iaas-cloud-computing-market.html |access-date= July 6, 2013 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/062310-amazon-ec2-cloud-startup.html |title=Amazon EC2 creator launches private cloud start-up |website=www.networkworld.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101207043050/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/062310-amazon-ec2-cloud-startup.html |archive-date=2010-12-07}}
Diane Greene and Roelof Botha became members of the board of directors at that time.
Eventually the company had its office in Mountain View, California.
A public beta version of its software was announced in December 2010.{{Cite news |title= Nimbula Launches Cloud OS In Public Beta |date= December 7, 2010 |author= Antone Gonsalves |work= Information Week |url= http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228600108 }} Nimbula Director 1.0 was released in April 2011.{{Cite news |title= Nimbula Announces Immediate Availability of Nimbula Director 1.0 |date= April 6, 2011 |work= Press release |url= http://nimbula.com/news/press_release/nimbula-announces-immediate-availability-of-nimbula-director-10/ |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110407221609/http://nimbula.com/news/press_release/nimbula-announces-immediate-availability-of-nimbula-director-10/ |archive-date= April 7, 2011 |access-date= July 6, 2013 }}
Nimbula was Named a ‘Cool Vendor’ in Cloud Management by Gartner in April 2012.{{Cite news |title= Nimbula Named a 'Cool Vendor' in Cloud Management by Leading Analyst Firm |date= April 16, 2012 |work= Press release |url= http://nimbula.com/news/press_release/nimbula-named-a-cool-vendor-in-cloud-management-by-leading-analyst-firm/ |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130706173107/http://nimbula.com/news/press_release/nimbula-named-a-cool-vendor-in-cloud-management-by-leading-analyst-firm |archive-date=July 6, 2013 |access-date= July 6, 2013 }}
In October 2012, Nimbula joined the OpenStack Foundation.{{cite web | url=http://nimbula.com/news/press_release/nimbula-joins-openstack-community/ | title=Nimbula - the Cloud OS Company - Press Releases }}
In March 2013, Nimbula was acquired by Oracle Corporation.{{cite web|url=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/nimbula/index.html|title=Oracle and Nimbula|date=13 March 2013|publisher=Oracle|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508084110/http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/nimbula/index.html|archive-date=8 May 2013|url-status=dead}}
Features
Nimbula Director software allows users to implement IaaS-style private, public and hybrid clouds. The software was aimed at both enterprise customers and service providers. It can manage both on- and off-premises infrastructure through a Web UI, an API or a command line interface.
Nimbula Director’s 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 hypervisor support from a single management pane
- Support for common cloud APIs like Amazon Web Services API
- Support for Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs)
- Integrate existing user services through support for Active Directory/LDAP
- Elastic IPs and security groups
- Support for virtual ethernets, allowing creation of isolated Layer 2 networks
- Integrated system metrics and reporting that will allow for integration with chargeback systems
Nimbula's license agreement allowed deployment of the software on up to 40 CPU cores without a license fee.{{Cite news |title= Nimbula Releases Nimbula Director 1.5 and Expands Cloud Partner Ecosystem |date= September 26, 2011 |work= Press release |url= http://nimbula.com/news/press_release/nimbula-releases-nimbula-director-15-and-expands-cloud-partner-ecosystem/ |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111004230300/http://nimbula.com/news/press_release/nimbula-releases-nimbula-director-15-and-expands-cloud-partner-ecosystem/ |archive-date= October 4, 2011 }}
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References
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External links
- [http://nimbula.com/ Official website]
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