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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]
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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]
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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]
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