Company:Nimbula

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Nimbula, Inc
TypePrivately held company
IndustryPrivate and Public cloud computing, Internet hosting services
FateAcquired by Oracle Corporation
FoundedApril 10, 2010 (2010 -04-10) (formerly known, in stealth mode, as Benguela, late 2008)
Founder
  • Chris Pinkham
  • Willem Van Biljon
Headquarters
ProductsNimbula Director

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.[1]

History

The company was first incorporated as Benguela, based in Menlo Park, California with a development center in Cape Town, South Africa .[2][3] It was founded in late 2008 by Chris Pinkham and Willem Van Biljon, who had developed the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).[4] The company raised a total of $20.75 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and VMware.[5][6][7] 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.[8][9] Diane Greene and Roelof Botha became members of the board of directors at that time.[8][4] Eventually the company had its office in Mountain View, California. A public beta version of its software was announced in December 2010.[10] Nimbula Director 1.0 was released in April 2011.[11] Nimbula was Named a ‘Cool Vendor’ in Cloud Management by Gartner in April 2012.[12]

In October 2012, Nimbula joined the OpenStack Foundation.[13]

In March 2013, Nimbula was acquired by Oracle Corporation.[14]

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.[15]

Release History

Product Released Highlighted features
Nimbula Director v1.0 April 6, 2011
Nimbula Director v1.5 September 26, 2011[15]
  • Policy-based automation
  • Persistent block store
  • Customizable installer for OS
Nimbula Director v2.0.1[16] June 14, 2012
Nimbula Director v2.0.2[17] July 30, 2012
  • Maintenance release
Nimbula Director v2.0.3[18] August 7, 2012
  • Maintenance release
Nimbula Director v2.0.3.1[19] September 12, 2012
  • Maintenance release
Nimbula Director v2.0.4[20] November 14, 2012
  • Maintenance release

References

  1. ↑ "Nimbula Inc - Company Profile and News" (in en). https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0346711Z:US. 
  2. ↑ Charles Babcock (August 26, 2010). "Nimbula Secures $15 Million Venture Capital Investment". Information Week. http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/hosted/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227001128. 
  3. ↑ Jon Brodkin (June 15, 2010). "Amazon EC2 creators to launch cloud computing start-up: Benguela building cloud infrastructure software, with focus on virtualization". Network World. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/061510-benguela-cloud-computing.html. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Patrick Hoge (June 21, 2010). "Amazon vets start cloud computing firm". San Francisco Business Times. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/06/21/daily39.html. 
  5. ↑ "The $20 Million Club: 10 Well-Funded Cloud Startups". 29 October 2010. http://gigaom.com/cloud/the-20-million-club-10-well-funded-cloud-startups/. 
  6. ↑ "Nimbula raises $15M to expand cloud service". 23 August 2010. https://venturebeat.com/2010/08/23/nimbula-funding/. 
  7. ↑ [1][|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Diane Greene is back: Nimbula leaves the stealth mode and enters the IaaS cloud computing market". Virtualization.com. June 23, 2010. http://virtualization.info/en/news/2010/06/diane-greene-is-back-nimbula-leaves-the-stealth-mode-and-enters-the-iaas-cloud-computing-market.html. 
  9. ↑ "Amazon EC2 creator launches private cloud start-up". http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/062310-amazon-ec2-cloud-startup.html. 
  10. ↑ Antone Gonsalves (December 7, 2010). "Nimbula Launches Cloud OS In Public Beta". Information Week. http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228600108. 
  11. ↑ "Nimbula Announces Immediate Availability of Nimbula Director 1.0". Press release. April 6, 2011. http://nimbula.com/news/press_release/nimbula-announces-immediate-availability-of-nimbula-director-10/. 
  12. ↑ "Nimbula Named a 'Cool Vendor' in Cloud Management by Leading Analyst Firm". Press release. April 16, 2012. http://nimbula.com/news/press_release/nimbula-named-a-cool-vendor-in-cloud-management-by-leading-analyst-firm/. 
  13. ↑ http://nimbula.com/news/press_release/nimbula-joins-openstack-community/ [bare URL]
  14. ↑ http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/nimbula/index.html [bare URL]
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Nimbula Releases Nimbula Director 1.5 and Expands Cloud Partner Ecosystem". Press release. September 26, 2011. http://nimbula.com/news/press_release/nimbula-releases-nimbula-director-15-and-expands-cloud-partner-ecosystem/. 
  16. ↑ https://nimbula.com/secure/products/release_note/387/ [bare URL]
  17. ↑ https://nimbula.com/secure/products/release_note/406/ [bare URL]
  18. ↑ https://nimbula.com/secure/products/release_note/410/ [bare URL]
  19. ↑ https://nimbula.com/secure/products/release_note/439/ [bare URL]
  20. ↑ https://nimbula.com/secure/products/release_note/476/ [bare URL]

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