Commercially supported, enterprise-class distribution of OpenNebula 3.2, the most feature-rich enterprise-class open-source software for comprehensive management of virtualized data centers based on Xen, KVM and VMware.
MADRID, Spain, January 31, 2012 - C12G Labs announced today an update release of OpenNebulaPro, the enterprise edition of the OpenNebula Toolkit. OpenNebula 3.2, released two weeks ago, brings important benefits to cloud providers with a new easily-customizable self-service portal for cloud consumers, and builders with full support for VMware that now includes live migration, advanced contextualization and image management. The new release additionally included important enhancements in networking and security.
C12G delivers OpenNebulaPro for business, government, or other organizations looking for a hardened, certified, supported cloud platform. OpenNebulaPro combines the rapid innovation of open-source with the stability and long-term production support of commercial software. Compared to OpenNebula, the expert production and integration support of OpenNebulaPro and its higher stability increase IT productivity, speed time to deployment, and reduce business and technical risks.
OpenNebulaPro 3.2 integrates the most recent stable version of OpenNebula 3.2 with the bug, performance, and scalability patches developed by the community and by C12G for its customers and partners. Supported Linux distributions are RedHat Enterprise Linux, Suse Linux Enterprise, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian and OpenSuse; supported hypervisors are VMware, KVM and Xen; and the supported cloud provider for cloudbursting is Amazon Web Services. OpenNebulaPro 3.2 is provided under open-source license to customers and partners on an annual subscription basis through the OpenNebula.pro Support Portal.
The subscription model brings several additional benefits in terms of long term multi-year support, production-level support with professional SLAs, integration support for optimal and scalable execution in any hardware and software combination, certification support to validate compatibility with complementary components and customizations, guaranteed patches, regular updates and upgrades, product influence, and privacy and security guarantee, and all at a competitive cost without high upfront fees.
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C12G Labs is a cloud computing technology company built on the understanding of its customers and partners needs and delivering the cloud management software, support and services to make them successful. The company is oriented to address channel partner requirements and to support them to create solutions, products and services around OpenNebulaPro, a certified and supported enterprise grade edition of the OpenNebula toolkit with additional features for its operation and management in business and large-scale environments. This cutting-edge technology and the value-added services are available to customers and partners with an active subscription.
For more info: http://www.C12G.com
OpenNebula 3.2 is the most feature-rich enterprise-class open-source software for comprehensive management of virtualized data centers based on Xen, KVM and VMware.
MADRID, January 17, 2012. The OpenNebula Project is proud to announce the release of a new stable version of its widely deployed open-source management platform for enterprise data center virtualization. OpenNebula 3.2 is the first stable distribution produced by OpenNebula’s new release cycle aimed at faster delivery of new features and innovations to the community, based on their requirements and feedback, while also increasing technical quality.
"The most recent requirements of organizations building large scale production environments have been the driving force behind all our development and innovation efforts in OpenNebula 3.2", said Ignacio M. Llorente, Director of the OpenNebula Project. "Most of these organizations are using OpenNebula as an enterprise-ready open-source alternative to proprietary cloud solutions”.
OpenNebula 3.2 brings important benefits to cloud providers with a new easily-customizable self-service portal for cloud consumers, and builders with full support for VMware that now includes live migration, advanced contextualization and image management. The new release additionally includes important enhancements in networking and security.
“This new update of OpenNebula brings the highest levels of flexibility, stability, scalability and functionality for VMware-based data centers and clouds in the open-source domain”, said Ruben S. Montero, Chief Architect of the OpenNebula Project. “While avoiding vendor lock-in, OpenNebula 3.2 provides an open management platform that compares to vCenter and vCloud, that can moreover be adapted to fit into your environment”.
C12G Labs, the company behind the open-source project, delivers a commercial distribution of OpenNebula for business, government, or other organizations looking for a hardened, certified, supported cloud platform. OpenNebulaPro combines the rapid innovation of open-source with the stability and long-term production support of commercial software.
About OpenNebula
Being used by thousands of organizations worldwide, OpenNebula is the open-source industry standard for data center virtualization. OpenNebula is fully open-source software, released under the terms of the Apache license, with a community that, by many measures, has more than doubled each year since its creation in 2007.
More info: http://www.OpenNebula.org
Commercially supported, enterprise-class distribution of OpenNebula 3.0, integrating the rapid innovation of open-source, with the stability and long-term production support of commercial software.
MADRID, Spain, November 28, 2011 - C12G Labs announced today a major new release of OpenNebulaPro, the enterprise edition of the OpenNebula Toolkit. The third generation of OpenNebula, released two months ago, is helping many organizations make the transition toward the next generation of cloud infrastructures by supporting multiple fully-isolated virtual data centers, advanced multi-tenancy with fine-grained access control, and multiple zones potentially hosted in different geographical locations. This new release has also brought important benefits to cloud users and administrators with a greatly improved SunStone GUI that provides easy access to all the new features in 3.0 and a new oZones GUI to manage zones and virtual data centers. Other features included in this release are new authentication methods with usage quotas, a VM template repository, a new monitoring and accounting service, and a new network subsystem with support for Open vSwitch and 802.1Q tagging. OpenNebula allows data centers to provide cloud services by leveraging their existing IT assets, instead of building a new system from the ground up, thus protecting existing investments and avoiding vendor lock-in.
OpenNebulaPro 3.0 integrates the most recent stable version of OpenNebula 3.0 with the bug, performance, and scalability patches developed by the community and by C12G for its customers and partners. Compared to OpenNebula, the expert production and integration support of OpenNebulaPro and its higher stability increase IT productivity, speed time to deployment, and reduce business and technical risks. Supported Linux distributions are RedHat Enterprise Linux, Suse Linux Enterprise, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian and OpenSuse; supported hypervisors are VMware ESX/ESXi, KVM and Xen; and the supported cloud provider for cloudbursting is Amazon Web Services.
OpenNebulaPro 3.0 is provided under open-source license to customers and partners on an annual subscription basis through the OpenNebula.pro Support Portal. The subscription model brings several additional benefits in terms of long term multi-year support, production-level support with professional SLAs, integration support for optimal and scalable execution in any hardware and software combination, certification support to validate compatibility with complementary components and customizations, guaranteed patches, regular updates and upgrades, product influence, and privacy and security guarantee, and all at a competitive cost without high upfront fees.
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About C12G Labs
C12G Labs is a cloud computing technology company built on the understanding of its customers and partners needs and delivering the cloud management software, support and services to make them successful. The company is oriented to address channel partner requirements and to support them to create solutions, products and services around OpenNebulaPro, a certified and supported enterprise grade edition of the OpenNebula toolkit with additional features for its operation and management in business and large-scale environments. This cutting-edge technology and the value-added services are available to customers and partners with an active subscription.
For more info: http://www.C12G.com
After the release of OpenNebula 3.0 (IRIS), C12G Labs is pleased to announce that a new development version of the OpenNebula Addons has been contributed to the OpenNebula Project. The major objective with this release is to provide compatiblity between the Addons and the new OpenNebula 3.0. The contributed components are:
- LDAP Authentication Module that permits users to have the same credentials as in LDAP, so effectively centralizing authentication. Now tested against OpenNebula 3.0.
- Accounting Toolset that visualizes and reports resource usage data, and allows their integration with chargeback and billing platforms. Now tested against OpenNebula 3.0.
The VMware Driver Addon, which enables the management of an OpenNebula cloud based on VMware ESX and VMware Server hypervisors, has been available since the Beta release of OpenNebula 3.0.
C12G Labs would like to point out that the OpenNebula Project endorses these extensions and supports them through the user mailing list. Moreover, the project ensures its full compatibility with current and upcoming releases of OpenNebula.
About OpenNebula
OpenNebula is the most advanced open-source platform for building IaaS clouds, offering unique features for cloud management and providing the integration capabilities that many enterprise IT shops need for internal cloud adoption. OpenNebula is the result of many years of research and development in scalable management of virtual machines on large-scale distributed infrastructures in collaboration with leading IT companies.
More info: http://www.OpenNebula.org
About C12G Labs
C12G Labs, the leader in private cloud computing management, is the company behind the OpenNebula open-source toolkit for cloud computing. C12G provides enterprise-grade solutions around OpenNebulaPro, which is a stable, certified, and supported distribution of OpenNebula. C12G offers a comprehensive set of services, through which customers and partners can get production level support or build a custom cloud.
For more info: http://www.c12g.com
The OpenNebula project has just announced the release of a development version of the new plug-ins to build clouds based on Xen Cloud Platform. This new prototype, developed by C12G Labs and first result of the collaboration between OpenNebula and Xen announced last week, allows users to build and manage OpenNebula clouds on XCP.
The new components, which are available for download as a new OpenNebula ecosystem project, bring the rich capabilities of XenAPI to OpenNebula. XCP provides a complete cloud platform to OpenNebula, with enhanced security, storage and network virtualization. Meanwhile, OpenNebula provides cloud orchestration to XCP with adaptable, extensible, proven, and interoperable data center virtualization management.
Paris, France, October 6th, 2011 – C12G Labs today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Logica France, a business and technology service company, to offer cloud solutions to clients. Utilising C12G Labs OpenNebulaPro product, Logica completes its cloud computing services with open-source based enterprise grade cloud offerings.
OpenNebulaPro is the supported and certified enterprise-grade distribution of the widely used OpenNebula toolkit for cloud computing. OpenNebula is used by thousands of organizations to build large-scale production public and private clouds using KVM, Xen, VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, and hybrid clouds using Amazon Web Services. The cloud management tool includes features for integration, management, scalability, security and accounting that many enterprises IT shops need for cloud adoption.
“Combining Logica’s business consulting approach and high quality open-source products, we help our clients to accelerate their business transformation to the cloud, improving their IT’s agility while significantly reducing costs and unplanned downtime with a reliable, scalable and opened cloud infrastructure stack built around OpenNebulaPro” commented Patrice Lachance, Manager IT Consulting at Logica France, at the initiative of the partnership.
"We are excited to work with leading integration and consultancy services provider Logica to deliver enterprise-ready cloud platforms adapted to any infrastructure environment and enterprise IT policies, procedures and norms," said Ignacio M. Llorente, Chief Executive Advisor of C12G Labs and Project Director of OpenNebula. "OpenNebula interoperability makes cloud an evolution by leveraging existing IT assets, protecting your existing investments, and avoiding vendor lock-in."
About C12G Labs
C12G Labs, the leader in private cloud computing management, is the company behind the OpenNebula open-source toolkit for cloud computing. C12G provides enterprise-grade solutions around OpenNebulaPro, which is a stable, certified, and supported distribution of OpenNebula. C12G offers a comprehensive set of services, through which customers and partners can get production level support or build a custom cloud.
More information is available at http://www.c12g.com
About Logica
Logica is a business and technology service company, employing 41,000 people. It provides business consulting, systems integration and outsourcing to clients around the world, including many of Europe's largest businesses. Logica creates value for clients by successfully integrating people, business and technology. It is committed to long term collaboration, applying insight to create innovative answers to clients’ business needs.
Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG).
More information is available at www.logica.com
OpenNebula 3.0 features the latest innovations in cloud computing for the deployment of cutting-edge enterprise-ready on-premise IaaS clouds
MADRID, Spain, October 3, 2011 - The OpenNebula Project is proud to announce the third major release of its widely deployed OpenNebula Toolkit, a fully open-source enterprise-grade cloud computing tool for the complete and comprehensive management of clouds and virtualized data centers. OpenNebula 3.0 delivers availability, reliability, scalability, security and efficiency with a focus on allowing data centers to provide cloud services by leveraging their existing IT assets, instead of building a new system from the ground up, thus protecting existing investments and avoiding vendor lock-in.
Most of the new innovative features have been developed to fulfill the needs of leading IT organizations running production environments. OpenNebula is helping many organizations make the transition toward the next generation of cloud infrastructures by supporting multiple fully-isolated virtual data centers, advanced multi-tenancy with fine-grained access control, and multiple zones potentially hosted in different geographical locations.
This new release also brings important benefits to cloud users and administrators with a greatly improved SunStone GUI that provides easy access to all the new features in 3.0 and a new oZones GUI to manage zones and virtual data centers. Other features included in this release include new authentication methods with usage quotas, a VM template repository, a new monitoring and accounting service, and a new network subsystem with support for Open vSwitch and 802.1Q tagging.
“This new version has matured thanks to our large user base and the expertise gained since we released the first version of OpenNebula more than three years ago”, said Ignacio M. Llorente, Director of the OpenNebula Project. “We really appreciate the valuable support, software contributions, and feedback from our active and engaged community”.
With more than 5,000 downloads per month, OpenNebula is being used by thousands of organizations to build large-scale production clouds.
“The third major release of OpenNebula brings the latest innovations in cloud computing. There is no cloud manager offering similar levels of flexibility, performance, control, and availability”, said Ruben S. Montero, Chief Architect of the OpenNebula open-source project.
About OpenNebula
OpenNebula is the most advanced and innovative open-source platform for building IaaS clouds, offering unique features for cloud management and providing the integration capabilities that many enterprise IT shops need for internal cloud adoption.
More info: http://www.OpenNebula.org
C12G subscriptions provide enterprise-ready solutions at a highly competitive cost
MADRID, September 8, 2011. C12G Labs announced today a new extremely competitive pricing plan for OpenNebulaPro support subscriptions. Support subscriptions are now offered at a lower cost with progressive discounts for larger infrastructures and multiple zones. Available pricing models are:
- Per managed server: The default pricing is per server in the cloud with any number of sockets and cores. Annual subscription now starts at 150 euros per physical server in the basic support level. Moreover, a progressive discount in the subscription fee is applied for clouds with more than 20 servers within the same OpenNebula zone.
- Per OpenNebula zone: C12G offers per-zone support for unlimited servers within a single zone. Annual subscription fee now starts at 9,000 euros per zone. Typically a zone can include up to 200 hosts. Moreover, a progressive discount in the subscription fee is applied for additional zones within the same data center site.
- Per data center site: C12G offers per-site support for unlimited zones and servers within a single site.
C12G additionally applies pricing discounts for multi-year terms and for Education, Government and Non-Profit institutions.
New subscriptions also include lower maximum response times for the three levels of service. The price changes are immediate for new customers, and for existing customers the new pricing will start on their next renewal. In the meantime they will receive an upgrade in their level of service.
Please contact us if you would like a copy of the Services Program Guide with a detailed description of C12G subscriptions and professional services.
About C12G Subscriptions
C12G's support subscriptions provide long-term multi-year support, production-level support with professional SLAs, integration support for optimal and scalable execution in any hardware and software combination, certification support to validate compatibility with complementary components and customizations, regular updates and upgrades, product influence, privacy and security guarantee, and additional tools for the administration of OpenNebulaPro cloud instances in production environments, all at a competitive cost without high upfront fees.
For more information: http://www.c12g.com/support-services-programs
About OpenNebulaPro
OpenNebulaPro provides the rapid innovation of open-source, with the stability and long-term production support of commercial software. Compared to OpenNebula, the expert production and integration support of OpenNebulaPro and its higher stability increase IT productivity, speed time to deployment, and reduce business and technical risks. Compared to other commercial alternatives, OpenNebulaPro is an adaptable and interoperable cloud management solution that delivers enterprise-class functionality, stability and scalability at significantly lower costs.
For more information: http://www.c12g.com/products
About C12G Labs
C12G Labs, the leader in private cloud computing management, is a Technology Company built on understanding the needs of their customers and partners, and delivering the Cloud Management Software, Support and Services to make them successful. C12G offers a comprehensive set of subscription and value-added consulting, engineering, development and training services through which C12G customers can get professional support to design, build and operate an OpenNebula cloud infrastructure for internal operations or for offering a cloud service.
For more information: http://www.c12g.com
Latest version of the most innovative and advanced open source cloud computing platform.
MADRID, Spain, July 20, 2011 - C12G Labs is pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release of OpenNebula 3.0. This beta release is targeted at testers and users that would like to check the exciting new features that have been developed to meet the needs of our most demanding users. The third major release of OpenNebula brings unique key features in cloud computing management, such as fully-configurable multi-tenancy with fine grained ACL management, comprehensive management of VM templates, detailed accounting and monitoring statistics, and modular and customizable VM image repository. The distribution also brings a new enhanced and customizable SunStone web portal and the new OpenNebula Zones to build multi-tier architectures and to support virtual datacenters.
OpenNebula 3.0 uses a new database schema with a new tool to upgrade from previous OpenNebula versions. The new internal database schema greatly improves the flexibility of the code with no performance cost. There are lots of other minor features, like improvements in the libvirt driver, or the ability to edit resource templates. The final version of OpenNebula 3.0 will also bring new external authentication drivers, an accounting CLI, and quota management.
OpenNebula has incorporated these features based upon the great feedback received from its ever-growing community. With this new release, OpenNebula continues to fulfill the promise of building a state-of-the-art open source toolkit that also addresses the scalability, flexibility and security requirements of large-scale production deployments. The OpenNebula project would like to thank the community for their effort and valuable contributions that made possible this release. OpenNebula is fully open-source technology released under the Apache 2.0 license.
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About C12G
C12G Labs, the leader in private cloud computing management, is a Technology Company built on understanding the needs of their customers and partners, and delivering the Cloud Management Software, Support and Services to make them successful. C12G provides value-added enterprise-grade solutions around OpenNebulaPro, which is the stable, certified, and supported enterprise-ready distribution of OpenNebula. C12G offers support subscription and consulting, engineering, development and training services through which customers and partners can get professional technical and integration support to build and operate a custom OpenNebula cloud for internal operations or for offering a cloud service.
For more info: http://www.C12G.com
About OpenNebula
OpenNebula is the most advanced open-source platform for building IaaS clouds, offering unique features for cloud management and providing the integration capabilities that many enterprise IT shops need for internal cloud adoption. OpenNebula is the result of many years of research and development in scalable management of virtual machines on large-scale distributed infrastructures in collaboration with leading IT companies.
For more info: http://www.OpenNebula.org
MADRID, June 23, 2011. C12G Labs, the leader in private cloud computing management, has joined the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), a consortium committed to fostering the adoption of open virtualization technologies. The consortium will promote examples of customer successes, encourage interoperability and accelerate the expansion of the ecosystem of third party solutions around KVM, providing businesses improved choice, performance and price for virtualization.
OpenNebula is the Industry standard for on-premise IaaS cloud computing, offering a comprehensive solution for the management of virtualized data centers to enable private, public and hybrid (cloudbursting) clouds. OpenNebula interoperability makes cloud an evolution by leveraging existing IT infrastructure, protecting your investments, and avoiding vendor lock-in. C12G Labs manages the OpenNebula open-source project and offers support subscription and professional services to build and operate IaaS clouds.
“We are excited to join an interoperable ecosystem of components around KVM. These are also great news for the OpenNebula community where KVM is already a popular virtualization platform" said Ruben S. Montero, Chief Technology Advisor of C12G Labs and Chief Architect of OpenNebula. "Thanks to its open and modular architecture, OpenNebula can easily leverage KVM and integrate the OVA ecosystem to provide enterprise-grade cloud solutions".
About C12G
C12G Labs, the leader in private cloud computing management, is a Technology Company built on understanding the needs of their customers and partners, and delivering the Cloud Management Software, Support and Services to make them successful. C12G offers a comprehensive set of support subscription services, through which customers and partners can get production level support or build a custom cloud infrastructure or solution.
For more info: http://www.C12G.com
About OpenNebula
OpenNebula is the most advanced open-source platform for building IaaS clouds, offering unique features for cloud management and providing the integration capabilities that many enterprise IT shops need for internal cloud adoption.
For more info: http://www.OpenNebula.org
About Open Virtualization Alliance
The mission of the Open Virtualization Alliance is to foster the adoption of KVM as an open virtualization alternative, accelerate the emergence of an ecosystem of third-party solutions around KVM, increase overall awareness and understanding of KVM, encourage interoperability, promote best practices and highlight examples of customer successes. Founding members of the Open Virtualization Alliance include BMC Software, Eucalytpus Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, Inc. and SUSE.
For more info: http://www.openvirtualizationalliance.org/