Oracle today announced the integration of its March 2013 acquisition Nimbula into its Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud platform. The integration of Nimbula into Oracle’s public cloud offering means that customers can build IaaS infrastructures based on Oracle’s Exalogic Elastic Cloud in conjunction with Nimbula’s OpenStack-based IaaS technology. Today’s news marks the first time that OpenStack and Oracle’s high performance Exalogic Elastic Cloud are available on the same platform. Customers now have access to a highly scalable, high performing infrastructure that additionally boasts all of the attributes of the open standards-based OpenStack platform. Moreover, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud customers can leverage a suite of other products such as Oracle Applications, Oracle Fusion middleware, Database as a Service, Java as a Service and Middleware as a Service. The successful of integration of Nimbula’s OpenStack-based IaaS platform with Exalogic marks yet another small victory for OpenStack, which recently faces stiff competition from increasingly rich and variegated product offerings from VMware and Citrix, not to mention Amazon Web Services.
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ActiveState Partners With CloudSigma To Resell Stackato PaaS Platform In IaaS Environment
ActiveState has partnered with IaaS vendor CloudSigma to allow CloudSigma to resell its Stackato PaaS platform as part of its portfolio of cloud products. CloudSigma will offer ActiveState Stackato in order to cater to the needs of customers interested in cloud deployments that leverage Stackato’s “any cloud, any stack and any language,” PaaS platform. The partnership represents a strategic move by ActiveState to broaden the channel for Stackato’s distribution by collaborating with an IaaS vendor whose customers may wish to differentially utilize IaaS and PaaS platforms for discrete enterprise cloud projects and initiatives. ActiveState’s partnership with CloudSigma illustrates a growing trend in the PaaS space marked by the availability of PaaS platforms within third party IaaS infrastructures. Earlier this year, for example, CloudBees announced the availability of its PaaS platform AnyCloud on Amazon Web Services and other IaaS hosting environments. Similarly, the integration of Nimbula’s Nimbula Director 2.0 IaaS platform with 3rd party PaaS platforms offers the performance, scalability and management tools of a public IaaS cloud to private PaaS cloud deployments.
Nimbula Announces Nimbula Director 2.0 With VMware ESXi Support
On Monday, Nimbula announced Nimbula Director 2.0 with a markedly enhanced version of its cloud operating system software for public and private clouds. The platform features enhanced capabilities to integrate with third party software in the form of storage repositories, PaaS platforms, cloud security and management applications and other software. Notably, Nimbula Director 2.0 supports the VMware ESXi hypervisor and VMware Cloud Foundry PaaS. The platform also boasts improved application lifecycle management capabilities involving the ability to automate the provisioning of applications and monitor application performance over the duration of their operation. Nimbula Director 2.0 is currently in Beta and debuts in general availability mode in March 2012. With this release, Nimbula dramatically expands the flexibility of its operating system by way of its support for Cloud Foundry and VMware’s ESXi hypervisor. Customers can now integrate a pre-existing PaaS platform with Nimbula’s IaaS cloud operating system. Nimbula Director 2.0 appears to have hit upon an increasingly common theme in contemporary IaaS branding, namely, the delivery of the performance and scalability of a public cloud for private clouds of varying sizes and development needs.
Nimbula Announces Cloud Migration Service For Transitioning Public Clouds to Private
On Monday, Nimbula announced a set of professional services that facilitate the transition from a public to a private cloud. Branded the “Nimbula Cloud Migration Service,” the professional services utilize Nimbula Director, Nimbula’s flagship product that determines the operating parameters of an operational cloud with a view toward streamlining deployment of a private or hybrid cloud. Nimbula’s services are geared toward transitioning a customer’s deployment of a pubic cloud such as Amazon EC2 cloud to a private cloud environment that gives them greater control while allowing for a reduction in costs. Zynga represents the paradigmatic example of a company that started on the Amazon EC2 platform but subsequently created a private, “Z” cloud that coexists alongside its EC2 deployment. Zynga uses the Amazon’s EC2 platform as a testing stage for its applications before migrating them to its own cloud based infrastructure. Nimbula’s professional services team provides enterprises and startups alike with a migration plan and technical overview of the planned private cloud environment. Founded by industry veterans that developed the Amazon EC2 platform, Nimbula’s Cloud Migration Service complements its core cloud operating system offering.
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