Oracle snags former Nebula techies for its cloud effort
May 8, 2015
Grazed from Fortune. Author: Barb Darrow.
That didn’t take long. A little over a month ago, cloud company Nebula closed up shop. This week, Oracle said it’s hired 40 of Nebula’s engineers, according to Re/Code. Oracle cloud chief Peter Magnusson, a former top technologist at Google and Snapchat, told the publication that Oracle approached the group soon after news of Nebula’s demise.
It’s easy to see why. Nebula focused on OpenStack, a hot niche of open-source cloud software that many companies are looking to use in their future infrastructure. Most big companies that now run their own servers on-premises or in data centers, see cloud computing as a more flexible and possibly cheaper way to run their applications and store their data…
Former NASA Chief Technology Officer Chris Kemp, one of the original developers of OpenStack, founded Nebula to provide hardware appliances that would plug OpenStack directly into existing data centers, making it easier to incorporate into existing infrastructure…
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