MEDIA RELEASE PR41853 
 
The OpenNebula Project Releases Version 2.0 of its Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing 
 
MADRID, Spain, October 25/PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- 
 
    - This New Version is the Result of Close Collaborations With Leading IT 
Organizations That Have Used OpenNebula to Build Large-scale Production Cloud 
Infrastructures in Both Industry and Academia. 
 
    The OpenNebula Project announced today a major new release of its 
OpenNebula Toolkit, a fully open source cloud computing tool for managing a 
data center's virtual infrastructure. The toolkit includes features for 
integration, management, scalability, security and accounting that many 
enterprise IT shops need for private and hybrid cloud adoption. This newest 
release also emphasizes standardization, interoperability and portability, 
providing cloud users and administrators with a choice of several popular 
cloud interfaces and hypervisors, and a flexible architecture that can 
accommodate practically any hardware and software combination in a data 
center. 
 
    "This new version has matured thanks to an active and engaged community," 
said Ignacio M. Llorente, co-lead and Director of the OpenNebula Project. "By 
being fully open-source and having a flexible and extensible architecture, 
several users have been able to contribute innovative new features and many 
others have provided valuable feedback that allowed us to focus on features 
that were truly of interest to our users." 
 
    OpenNebula is downloaded several thousands of times per month from its 
website, and is widely used across multiple industries, such as Hosting, 
Telecom, HPC, or eGovernment. 
 
    "OpenNebula is the result of many years of research and the interaction 
with some of the major players in the Cloud arena. From the beginning, 
OpenNebula has been designed to be flexible enough to adapt to any 
infrastructure environment and to scale to hundreds of thousands of virtual 
machines and cores," said Ruben S. Montero, co-lead and Chief Architect of  
the OpenNebula Project. 
 
    About the OpenNebula Project 
 
    OpenNebula is an open-source project aimed at building the industry 
standard open source cloud computing tool for managing distributed data 
center infrastructures. OpenNebula was first established as a research 
project in 2005 and made its first public release in March 2008. OpenNebula 
is being used as an open platform for innovation in several flagship 
international projects to research the challenges that arise in cloud 
management, and also as production-ready tool in both academia and industry. 
C12G Labs provides value-added professional services to create solutions, 
products and services based on OpenNebula. 
 
 
    SOURCE: DSA Research Group 
 
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