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]
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]
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