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The appliance manager
In order to understand one of our new cool features, we include a short presentation to understand the concept.
In next weeks we will publish our own public appliance repository.
If you are an appliance provider or a software company that want to distribute your development as a virtual appliance, feel free to contact us and ask for posible colaborations.
Tags: 0.7.0, abiCloud, appliance manager, cloud computing, release
OVF manager with abiCloud
This post is not to explain the benefits of OVF standard in the cloud world. A little summary, for us the most important features:
- Allows the easy portability of virtual Appliance between datacenters.
- Supports both single and multi virtual machine configurations.
- It’s independent of the virtualization technology.
- OVF is extensible.
OVF is being and/or will be adopted by the most important players in the cloud market.
AbiCloud is designed to work with the OVF standard (nowadays with OVF 1.0 specifications).
abiCloud 0.7.0 release have the first version of OVF manager, a java library that would be able to be used in other projects. The main benefits are:
- 1.0 specifications compliance
- complexity abstraction for developers.
- Easy OVF updating process in your code.
This first revision will contain the basic OVF specifications and will be an important section in our community for developers or other projects interested in collaborating with the library improvements.
Moreover, we are working in other cloud components that work with OVF in order to improve the interoperability between clouds … information is coming soon :)
And remember, for questions or doubts, you know how to contact us ;)
abiCloud 0.7.0 has been released!
We are glad to announce the release of a new version (0.7) of the abiCloud project, an open source cloud platform manager which allows to easily deploy a cloud computing infrastructure over organizations’ datacenters. Organizations can create, manage and scale complext IT architectures in an easy and agile way.
AbiCloud is Cloud computing platform that allows you to offer your infrastructure as a service to your users, allowing them to create and manage public and private clouds, can switch, scale according to the needs of each moment and, therefore, cost savings and business agility.
Today, abiquo has released a new version of its open source product abiCloud. This version offers a base for the management of private clouds on different platforms for virtualization, monitoring all events, allowing users to convert their structures into existing IT structures based on Cloud. We are also offering as a new feature the possibility of having a repository of virtual images that can be integrated with external repositories for downloading virtual appliances.
One of the key differences of AbiCloud is the the web rich interface for managing the infrastructure. You can deploy a new service just dragging and dropping a virtual machine. This version allows to deploy instances over VirtualBox, KVM, Xen and VMware (subscribers-only).
New features of this version:
- Network management
- Appliance manager & repository
- Events management
Features:
- Rich interface
- User management through ACL
- Infrastructure management (from datacenters to virtual machines)
- Visual design of virtual datacenters
Requirements:
- Linux or Windows
- Xen, KVM, Virtualbox or VMware hypervisors installed
- JavaVM
Licenses
- CPAL 1.0 for the UI
- MPL 1.1 for the services
For more details, please visit our community
Abiquo forum is enabled
Today we wish to announce the opening of the abiquo forum.
Since we released the first version of the abiCloud platform, many people have sent many questions. Basic or advanced questions. We think that it’s important to share this information with everybody, to facilitate the introduction of new users to abiquo products.
- A general section will help people to place abiquo announcements, to facilitate users to explain their abiCloud experiences and comment on any abiquo post from this blog.
- Moreover, abiCloud Corner simplifies understanding the details of our cloud platform.
You can send your questions in anonymous mode. Although, if you are an abiquo user (from bug tracker or confluence), you can login on to it.
Feel free to ask! Feel free to comment!
Together we will make this project grow!!!!
CloudCamp Barcelona - June 15th, 2009
CloudCamp is an unconference where early adapters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged you to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.
Our 2nd CloudCamp in Barcelona is scheduled for Monday, June 15th
Venue:
BarcelonaActiva
Llacuna 162-164
Barcelona, Catalonia
Spain
Tentative Schedule:
- 16.30-17.00: Registration
- 17.00-17.15: CloudCamp Presentation (English)
- 17.15-18.00: Lightning talks (English)
- 18.00-18.45: Unpanel (English)
- 18.45-19.00: Decide unconferences (Spanish)
- 19.00-20.00: Unconferences (Castellano)
- 20.00-21.00: Networking
You can register here.
See you there!!!
Tags: cloudCamp Barcelona Cloud Computing
Contact us at the Cloud Computing Expo in Prague!
Next May 18th and 19th “The Diegos” (Diego Mariño and me, Diego Parrilla) will attend to the Cloud Computing Expo in Prague. Diego Mariño will speak about Cloud Computing Marketplaces, our visionary view of the Cloud Computing. If you want to contact us to know more about AbiCloud or Abiquo, please let us know:
Diego Parrilla: dparrilla [AT] abiquo.com
Diego Mariño: dmarino [AT] abiquo.com
Tags: cloudcomputingexpo, marketplace
Vote for abiquo on SourceForge
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Helena Torras interviewed by Tiburon-Tv.com - Red Herring 100 Europe
Tags: abiCloud, interview, redherring
Support for VMware, Xen and KVM in AbiCloud
It has been a week now since we released our open source version of AbiCloud. We are totally thrilled with the response of the community. We did not expect that the platform could be downloaded all around the world so fast, and we are starting to get some very good feedback from the people.
One of the recurrent requests are support for VMware and Xen virtualization technologies. The good news are yes, we do support VMware ESX & ESXi, Xen and KVM. And now the not-so-good news, you will have to wait a little bit to download the plugins.
We are a startup and resources are scarce, so the testing and validation of the product is taking longer than expected. No big deal, but both plugins are targeted for enterprise customers, and they have to be reliable and stable to the max.
So, if you are planning to create a Cloud Computing environment with AbiCloud using VMware, Xen or KVM virtualization technologies instead or VirtualBox, drop me an email to dparrilla [AT] abiquo .com .
Release 0.6 –> First Step
Abiquo team would like to thank everybody for the support and effort in connecting to our Open Source community and downloading and testing abiCloud.
We know it’s the first little step, the first movement that propels the main aim of creating the cloud open source platform that will help everybody to get on the cloud computing train.
Now it’s time for some feedback, time to start improvements and orientate the work towards the community - and we need your help.
In the next posts we will present the new functionalities that will be added in the next release, although you can see the basic roadmap.
We want to start involving the community in the product definition. Using wiki, mailing list and forums, we will first start to inform the people who subscribed. Feel free to place any comments and propose any changes that could benefit the community.
In the next few weeks we will improve the code and documentation, we need a community mascot :P. Any suggestions?
That’s all, a big thank you to everyone from the Abiquo team, welcome to the community and help us to grow together.