Oracle acquires Nimbula for hybrid cloud software
March 14, 2013
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.
With the intent of rounding out its software stack for building hybrid clouds, Oracle is acquiring Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software. Based in Mountain View, California, Nimbula was co-founded by Chris Pinkham, who managed the development of Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), along with a number of other EC2 team members now with Nimbula. The company also has expertise with the OpenStack cloud software stack.
Nimbula’s flagship software, Nimbula Director, is designed to deploy and manage workloads across both private and public clouds. The software can be used for managing such cloud jobs as distributed software development, IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) and SaaS (software-as-a-service) hosting, batch processing and Hadoop deployments…
The company recently provided Nimbula Director with API (application programming interface) access to OpenStack, allowing customers to manage the open-source cloud platform through Nimbula. Nimbula’s products are complementary to Oracle’s own, Oracle said in a brief statement announcing the pending acquisition…
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