abiCloud 1.0.0 RC3 has been released

We’ve launched a new version of our product: abiCloud. The version is a new release candidate for 1.0.0. You can download it for Linux or Windows from sourceforge.

Fixed bugs

• [ABICLOUD-340] – Reset button never receives the ‘power on’ event.
• [ABICLOUD-352] – Unexpected error bundling images: Cannot recover from error.
• [ABICLOUD-356] – Power on events not received
• [ABICLOUD-367] – Tracer: problem with column virtualmachine

Improvements

• [ABICLOUD-346] – Add a ‘recalculate’ buton per datacenter to calculate the existing performance
• [ABICLOUD-363] – Change USER section name like GROUPS

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If you need support, you can get it from several sources:

• Documentation
• Forums
• IRC: (irc.freenode.net, #abicloud)

Tags: abiCloud, Abiquo, release, release candidate

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

Helena Torras interviewed by Tiburon-Tv.com – Red Herring 100 Europe

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abiCloud has been released

As you know, with Cloud Computing Technology, customers can access on-demand way to a large number of resources, enabling them to acquire an enormous processing power and storage without the need for large investments in hardware, resulting in significant investment and time savings, as well as energy consumption.

Today, abiquo has released abiCloud, an open source cloud platform manager which allows users to easily deploy a cloud over organizations’ datacenters for taking the most of this new paradigm.

 

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, but we support VMware, KVM and Xen too.
In the upcoming versions, abiCloud will offer, among other features, autoscalability, and automatic and immediate provision of servers, storage, network, virtual network devices and applications.

Features:

• Rich interface
• User management through ACL
• Infrastructure management (from datacenters to virtual machines)
• Network management
• Appliance repository
• Design virtual datacenters

Requirements:

• Linux or Windows
• VirtualBox hypervisor
• JavaVM

Licenses:

• CPAL 1.0 for the UI
• MPL 1.1 for the services

For deeper information, please visit our community.

Tags: abiCloud

Abiquo visits the Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Last wednesday we had the chance to visit the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where the supercomputer MareNostrum is hosted. It’s one of the most powerful supercomputer in Europe and the number 40 in the world, according to the last Top500 list.  MareNostrum has reached 94.21 Teraflops (94.21 trillions of operations per second). It has now 10.240 processors with a final calculation capacity of 94.21 Teraflops.

Jordi Torres Viñals and Ricard Galvadá invited us to visit the facilities. They are researchers in the areas of distributed computing, and of course it includes Cloud Computing. We wanted to meet each other to know more about our activities, and learn, learn, learn. We explained what abiCloud is and what is our value for the companies implementing our solution, and they explained their projects and objectives. I was impressed with their deep knowledge of the Cloud and specially about metering and metrics.

The pictures below where taken inside the MareNostrum datacenter. The datacenter is located inside an ancient chapel. It makes you feel like being inside a superheroes movie visiting the villians’ lair. From left to right, Ricard Gavaldá (BSC), Diego Parrilla (Abiquo), Xavier Fernández (Abiquo), Helena Torras (Abiquo).

Tags: abiCloud, bsc, marenostrum

Thoughts about Webhostingday’09 and CloudCamp in Cologne

Last week I spent a couple of days in the WebHostingDay event in Phantasialand in Brühl, near Cologne. Within the WebhostingDay held a ’special’ CloudCamp , as it was not associated with any particular city (The event was not Cologne CloudCamp.

The first thing that impressed me was the size of the event. It was big. And the place,Phantasialand, was big too. It is an amusement park, Port Aventura style, Terra Mitica and these, but with a cold from hell. The park was closed for the event, and each area had different conferences and activities. So for next year three days instead of two, and probably two people instead of one. Although I signed to several speeches, the truth is I could not go to any, since almost all the time on the first day I spent in the area called ‘hosting.Fair’, which was where the business booths were. Upon arrival, Manuel Jaffrin from Sun Microsystems offered to their plasma screen to show AbiCloud to the audience (we are members of the Sun Startups Essentials), so that’s what I did as you can see in this video:

One of the things that got clear of the event is that Cloud Computing is the way of the future for hosting providers. But, how to go that road is still something of visionaries. The most advanced have taken the path Virtual Private Servers (VPS), but this is not Cloud Computing, but it may be a start. As someone commented to me at the event, also depends on how each country evolves. UK, Germany and USA for example the VPS has matured, but Spain, for example, is something that is not yet mature enough.

Of the people I met, which impressed me most was Tom Leyden, Product Manager of Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, and former Qlayer. I was talking to him broadly about the future of Cloud Computing, and the truth is that I was delighted that my vision of what is fit quite well with their vision. It means that the vision of Abiquo is aligned with the visionaries of the industry (Obviously Sun bought Q-layer for a reason, right?). By the way, they gave me the chance in the Lighting-Talks to talk about Abiquo: five minutes presentation of companies that do Cloud Computing in the CloudCamp. Unfortunately, I had to go to the hotel to make the presentation, so I missed the party (a big mistake).

Next day was held the CloudCamp WHD, a CloudCamp especially for the WebhostingDay.The event was held at Joe’s Bar, a bar that seemed to come out of a Spaghetti Western movie. What you can see it in the following video:

The event was Flexiscale (Tony Lucas), Amazon Web Services (Martin Burh), iTricity (Robert Rosier), OpenQRM (Matt Rechenburg), GroupSwim (Jari Koister), Sun Microsystems (Kristof De Spiegeleer y Tom Leyden), aiCache (Max Robbins), William Louth (Jinspired), Rightscale (Michael Crandell), Terremark (Kurt Glazemakers) y Abiquo with my speech. There would be room for about 50 people, and at times it was full.

Max Robbins asked how many customers of Cloud Computing were in the room, and few raised their hands. Max findings were that less than 1% of the IT world had jumped into the Cloud Computing wagon. The problem is not security, it is of timings. The adoption process has to mature and evolve. It is a matter of confidence. Something I noticed was how all the speakers spoke of success stories very close to the world of startups, and only talked about startups. Well, I think the audience for the event was not the usual one in a CloudCamp, so I think that the message was not correct. By the way, in the next video you can see my lighting talk at 15.30 minute:

Among the speakers I would recommend the presentations of Kristof Spiegel about the future of Cloud Computing and William Louth on metrics collection and analysis. And among the products I recommend Terremark and aiCache. I also discovered OpenQRM, an opensource platform for Cloud Computing that differs of AbiCloud in several ways.

To conclude, I think the event was very interesting to validate of Abiquo proposal in Cloud Computing and confirms my ideas about what should be the future of Cloud Computing. The others suppliers have proposals as public cloud providers (Terremark, Sun Cloud, Amazon Web Services), and although most say they will sell their products as private clouds in the future (no date given), for now the only we have taken the opposite route and have offered first private clouds clouds before public ones is Abiquo.

Tags: abiCloud, cloudcamp, webhostinday

Abiquo Lighting Talk about AbiCloud at CloudCamp WHD 2009

This is the video of the CloudCamp WHD lightning talk I gave at the CloudCamp WHD. The talk starts at 15.30:

More about what happened in the CloudCamp WHD and in the WebHosting Day events soon.

Tags: abiCloud, cloudcamp, webhostingday

Abiquo at the WebhostingDay in Cologne

Tomorrow March 18th and 19th I will be at the Webhosting Day in Cologne, Germany. As one of the major events in Europe about hosting technologies, they will offer an adequate setting for the first CloudCamp Europe. The list of speakers is really brilliant and I hope to learn and connect with a lot of members of the Cloud hosting community. I would like to meet hosting providers and ISPs all around the globe that cares about Cloud hosting and want to know what can Abiquo can do to help them.

We will show our new version of AbiCloud, our open source cloud computing management platform. Sun Microsystems will allow me to use some room of its booth for live demos. So don’t be shy and come and visit me. Still, if you are shy but want to know about the product, please send me an email to dparrilla [AT] abiquo.com to schedule a demo somewhere, or just wait for a couple of days to download it from our revamped website soon.

Tags: abiCloud, events

abiCloud

We are looking forward to showing to the world a community version of our cloud platform to allow users to manage their public or private datacenter in an easy way adding cloud computing functionalities.

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abiCloud for ISP

This presentation resumes abiCloud  and is specifically focused for Internet Services Providers.

abiCloud is a set of tools that will help companies use their IT resources in a much more efficient, scalable and flexible way. And, what’s more important nowadays, will help reducing fixed costs and investment.

abiCloud allows you to create a unique virtual computer with all the company’s hardware (servers, clusters, personal computers and other devices). It also enables you to work with the cloud provider you choose (amazon, rackspace, google…) and obtain computing resources (storage, computation…) in a pay-as-you-go system.

Last but not least, abiCloud is Open Source. Anyone can access to the code, adapt it to the company’s requirements, contribute to the community with improvements and add extra applications and functionalities.

Tags: abiCloud, ISPs, product description