Nimbula
Nimbula was a computer software company that existed from 2008 to 2017. It developed software for the implementation of public and private cloud computing environments.[1]
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| Company type | Privately held company |
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| Industry | Private and Public cloud computing, Internet hosting services |
| Founded | April 10, 2010 (2010 -04-10) (formerly known, in stealth mode, as Benguela, late 2008) |
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| Fate | Acquired by Oracle Corporation |
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| Products | Nimbula Director |
| Website | Nimbula.com |
The company was first incorporated as Benguela, based in Menlo Park, California with a development center in Cape Town, South Africa.[2][3] It was founded in late 2008 by Chris Pinkham and Willem Van Biljon, who had developed the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).[4] The company raised a total of $20.75 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and VMware.[5][6][7] Their software was designed to make it easier for service providers and enterprises to build, manage and deploy infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings similar to Amazon EC2.
The company emerged from stealth mode in June 2010 and changed its name to Nimbula.[8][9] Diane Greene and Roelof Botha became members of the board of directors at that time.[8][4] Eventually the company had its office in Mountain View, California. A public beta version of its software was announced in December 2010.[10] Nimbula Director 1.0 was released in April 2011.[11] Nimbula was Named a ‘Cool Vendor’ in Cloud Management by Gartner in April 2012.[12]
In October 2012, Nimbula joined the OpenStack Foundation.[13]
In March 2013, Nimbula was acquired by Oracle Corporation.[14]
Nimbula Director software allows users to implement IaaS-style private, public and hybrid clouds. The software was aimed at both enterprise customers and service providers. It can manage both on- and off-premises infrastructure through a Web UI, an API or a command line interface.
Nimbula Director’s features include:
- Control access to local and external cloud resources with a policy based authorization system supporting multi-tenancy.
- Hands-off automated installation on bare metal
- Automated (zero touch) cluster expansion as new hardware is added
- API to manage local and external cloud resources
- Reduce demands on system administrators through low-touch automated cloud management.
- Multiple hypervisor support from a single management pane
- Support for common cloud APIs like Amazon Web Services API
- Support for Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs)
- Integrate existing user services through support for Active Directory/LDAP
- Elastic IPs and security groups
- Support for virtual ethernets, allowing creation of isolated Layer 2 networks
- Integrated system metrics and reporting that will allow for integration with chargeback systems
Nimbula's license agreement allowed deployment of the software on up to 40 CPU cores without a license fee.[15]
Release History
| Product | Released | Highlighted features |
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| Nimbula Director v1.0 | April 6, 2011 | |
| Nimbula Director v1.5 | September 26, 2011[15] |
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| Nimbula Director v2.0.1[16] | June 14, 2012 |
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| Nimbula Director v2.0.2[17] | July 30, 2012 |
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| Nimbula Director v2.0.3[18] | August 7, 2012 |
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| Nimbula Director v2.0.3.1[19] | September 12, 2012 |
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| Nimbula Director v2.0.4[20] | November 14, 2012 |
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- "Nimbula Inc - Company Profile and News". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
- Charles Babcock (August 26, 2010). "Nimbula Secures $15 Million Venture Capital Investment". Information Week. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
- Jon Brodkin (June 15, 2010). "Amazon EC2 creators to launch cloud computing start-up: Benguela building cloud infrastructure software, with focus on virtualization". Network World.
- Patrick Hoge (June 21, 2010). "Amazon vets start cloud computing firm". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
- "The $20 Million Club: 10 Well-Funded Cloud Startups". 29 October 2010.
- "Nimbula raises $15M to expand cloud service". 23 August 2010.
- "Diane Greene is back: Nimbula leaves the stealth mode and enters the IaaS cloud computing market". Virtualization.com. June 23, 2010. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
- "Amazon EC2 creator launches private cloud start-up". www.networkworld.com. Archived from the original on 2010-12-07.
- Antone Gonsalves (December 7, 2010). "Nimbula Launches Cloud OS In Public Beta". Information Week.
- "Nimbula Announces Immediate Availability of Nimbula Director 1.0". Press release. April 6, 2011. Archived from the original on April 7, 2011. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
- "Nimbula Named a 'Cool Vendor' in Cloud Management by Leading Analyst Firm". Press release. April 16, 2012. Archived from the original on July 6, 2013. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
- http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/nimbula/index.doc [bare URL] Oracle Buys Nimbula. 2013.
- "Nimbula Releases Nimbula Director 1.5 and Expands Cloud Partner Ecosystem". Press release. September 26, 2011. Archived from the original on October 4, 2011.