Nimbula has released Cloud Director, a cloud operating system beta version which can offer Amazon EC2 like services to Enterprises and Service providers. Nimbula’s Cloud Director enables companies to leverage the on and off premise resources efficiently. You can build the internal cloud or private cloud as well as you can expand to external cloud thus leveraging the data center compute capacity efficiently while considering to move to public cloud. Nimbula is a perfect Infrastructure as a Service platform to leverage or convert under utilized data center capacity into a compute capacity which can be better utilized on demand.

According to Nimbula, the Nimbula Director provides powerful utility-grade cloud features like policy based authorization, enabling secure multi-tenancy, topology-independent distributed network security and dynamic storage provisioning and monitoring and metering. Nimbula Director also uniquely provides highly automated deployment and cloud management to scale and facilitates easy migration of existing applications into the cloud by supporting multi-platform environments and flexible networking and storage. Nimbula Director has the following core features or options:

Security

• Control access to local and external cloud resources with the robust and flexible policy based Authorization System supporting multi-tenancy.

Ease of Use

• Quickly install up to hundreds of thousands of servers with a handsoff automated installation on bare metal. Get up and running rapidly with minimal configuration.
• Migrate existing applications into the cloud easily with multi-platform support and flexible networking.
• Reduce demands on system administrators through low-touch automated cloud management.
• Use the simple and robust API to manage local and external cloud resources.
• Integrate existing user services through support for Active Directory/LDAP.

Flexibility

• Control utilization of external cloud services with powerful access management via a uniform API.
• Enforce network policy between instances and externally to provide a distributed firewall via network security groups.
• Create and declare virtual Ethernets and launch instances in isolated layer 2 networks.

Scaling

• Scale from a small cluster up to tens of thousands of computers.

Reliability

• Ensure system integrity and resilience by eliminating single points of failure wi

To explore for your internal or external service providing need or building cloud operating system using Nimbula Director, please contact Nimbula.

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