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Nimbula, the “Cloud Operating System Company”, has announced the immediate availability of its flagship product, Nimbula Director.
Based on Nimbula’s technology, Nimbula Director delivers Amazon EC2-like services to both enterprises and service providers.
For deployments on infrastructure up to and including 40 cores, Nimbula Director is licensed free of charge. Customers will be able to purchase an optional annual support package for the free version of the product.
CA Technologies today announced the acquisition of Base Technologies, a privately-held consulting firm focused on the management of government IT assets, with leading practices in virtualization management, mainframe technology, security and managed IT infrastructure.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Base Technologies brings to CA 23 years of experience in the U.S. Public Sector, along with a track record of success with customers such as the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, National Institutes of Health, Federal Aviation Administration, and Commuter Connections, among others.
Pluribus Networks has raised $17.5 million in funding, an SEC filing reveals.
According to the company’s about page, its mission is to:
– Drive 3rd Wave of Virtualization into the Ethernet Hardware Market
– Deliver virtualized switches and distributed Netvisor operating system for true network virtualization with a fully programmable fabric
– Drive the commoditization of ethernet switch market
The company’s co-founders:
Robert Drost, Ph.D., CEO: former Senior Distinguished Engineer and Director of Advanced Hardware at Sun Microsystems
Sunay Tripathi (CTO): former Senior Distinguished Engineer for Sun Microsystems, and the Chief Architect for Kernel/Network Virtualization in Core Solaris OS.
C.K. Ken Yang, Ph.D., VP of Product Engineering: a Tenured Professor of EE at UCLA (on sabbatical)
Investors are Mohr Davidow Ventures and NEA.
(Via FormDs)
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A survey commissioned by DataCore (“The State of Virtualization”) finds that a majority of medium- and large-enterprise IT organizations overlook storage when implementing a virtualized operating environment.
The data reveals that nearly half of the respondents (43 percent) had not anticipated the impact that storage would have on their server and desktop virtualization costs or had not started a virtualization project because the storage-related costs “seem too high.” As a result, the rollout of their virtualization projects is delayed.
Of those that have deployed server virtualization, 66 percent cited a substantial increase in storage costs as the biggest problem they are facing. Nearly 40 percent say the storage infrastructure is either slowing application performance or limiting its availability, while more than 20 percent indicate that business continuity has become more difficult.
Over 56% now realize that consolidation creates I/O bottlenecks that prevent them from moving to the next level of virtualization.
The online survey of more than 450 medium- and large-enterprise IT organizations in the North America and Europe was conducted in January 2011. The survey asked a series of questions about virtualization and its impact on storage.
rPath has announced that rPath X6 now supports OpenStack and VMware vCloud Director for private and hybrid cloud computing environments.
OpenStack is the open source cloud operating system and emerging open cloud standard backed by more than 50 organizations and contributors across the globe. VMware vCloud Director allows enterprises and service providers to build and operate secure clouds.
With this announcement, rPath’s system automation and standardization features can be combined with OpenStack’s elasticity and vCloud Director’s requisition, approval and provisioning capabilities to provide customers with a tangible means of requesting, deploying, maintaining and dynamically scaling a complete IT system.
rPath is a founding member of the NRE Alliance, a coalition of independent vendors collaborating to deliver a solution for enterprise cloud computing by enabling capabilities for self-service, automation and elasticity. Other members of the NRE Alliance include newScale, Eucalyptus Systems and MomentumSI.
