Nimbula was a computer software company that existed from 2008 to 2017. It developed software for the implementation of public and private

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environments.

History

The company was first incorporated as Benguela, based in

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with a development center in

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. It was founded in late 2008 by Chris Pinkham and Willem Van Biljon, who had developed the

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(EC2). The company raised a total of $20.75 million in venture funding from

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and VMware. Their software was designed to make it easier for service providers and enterprises to build, manage and deploy

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(IaaS) offerings similar to Amazon EC2. The company emerged from

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in June 2010 and changed its name to Nimbula. Diane Greene and Roelof Botha became members of the board of directors at that time. Eventually the company had its office in

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. A public

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of its software was announced in December 2010. Nimbula Director 1.0 was released in April 2011. Nimbula was Named a ‘Cool Vendor’ in Cloud Management by

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in April 2012. In October 2012, Nimbula joined the

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Foundation. In March 2013, Nimbula was acquired by

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Features

Nimbula Director software allows users to implement IaaS-style

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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

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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

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History

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