Supporting the OpenNebula Cloud Ecosystem

New OpenNebula Site with Support for the Community

Feb. 25, 2010 10:45 AM

The OpenNebula open source project has just released a new web site. This is not only a new look for opennebula.org but a whole new site for the community, a new place to share resources, contribute developments and discuss about components and solutions around OpenNebula.

In the last years, many projects, research groups and companies have built new virtualization and cloud components to complement and to enhance the functionality provided by OpenNebula. In response to this growth, the OpenNebula Ecosystem has been established to:

Introduce the tools and extensions that complement the functionality provided by OpenNebula
Bring visibility to the innovations of the OpenNebula Ecosystem
Provide a catalog of components in the ecosystem to help integrate with OpenNebula
Offer support and resources demanded by cloud integrators and developers
Exchange news, updates and opinions about OpenNebula and its ecosystem

The components in the ecosystem catalog enhance the functionality provided by the OpenNebula Cloud Toolkit or enable its integration with existing products, services and management tools in the virtualization, cloud and data center ecosystems. Examples of components are:

Deltacloud Driver: OpenNebula driver for RedHat Deltacloud using the OGF OCCI API
Haizea: Open-source virtual machine-based lease management architecture
Cloud Management Console: A clean web interface for OpenNebula
Virtual Cluster Tool: Wrapper and a set of modified drivers for OpenNebula which adds support for atomic virtual cluster management with versioning and multiple transport protocols

The catalog will continue to be updated as new and updated extensions, tools and plug-ins become available.

▪ Hadoop @ Yahoo – Internet Scale Data Processing

▪ SOASTA CloudTest(TM) Featured in The Rackspace Cloud Ecosystem

▪ Release of the Third Generation of the OpenNebula Cloud Manager

About Ignacio M. Llorente
Ignacio M. Llorente, Ph.D in Computer Science (UCM) and Executive MBA (IE Business School), is a Full Professor (Catedratico) in Computer Architecture and the Head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Group at UCM, and Chief Executive Advisor and co-founder of the C12G Labs technology start-up. He held several appointments as independent IT expert for the European Commission and several companies and national governments; and consultant positions at ICASE NASA Langley and Sun Microsystems. Prof. Llorente is one of the pioneers and world's leading authorities on Cloud Computing. He has served on several Groups of Experts on Cloud Computing convened by international organizations, such as the European Commission and the World Economic Forum, and has contributed to several Cloud Computing panels and roadmaps. He is the Director of the OpenNebula Open-Source Project and participates in the main European projects in Cloud Computing. He founded and co-chaired the Open Grid Forum Working Group on Open Cloud Computing Interface. Prof. Llorente has given many keynotes and invited talks in the main international events in cloud computing, and has contributed to several cloud computing panels and roadmaps.