Type | Privately held company |
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Industry | Private and Public cloud computing, Internet hosting services |
Fate | Acquired by Oracle Corporation |
Founded | April 10, 2010(formerly known, in stealth mode, as Benguela, late 2008) |
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Headquarters |
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Products | Nimbula Director |
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 was first incorporated as Benguela, based in Menlo Park, California with a development center in Cape Town, South Africa .[2][3] It was founded in late 2008 by Chris Pinkham and Willem Van Biljon, who had developed the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).[4] The company raised a total of $20.75 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and VMware.[5][6][7] Their software was designed to make it easier for service providers and enterprises to build, manage and deploy infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings similar to Amazon EC2.
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]
In March 2013, Nimbula was acquired by Oracle Corporation.[14]
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:
Nimbula's license agreement allowed deployment of the software on up to 40 CPU cores without a license fee.[15]
Product | Released | Highlighted features |
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Nimbula Director v1.0 | April 6, 2011 | |
Nimbula Director v1.5 | September 26, 2011[15] |
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Nimbula Director v2.0.1[16] | June 14, 2012 |
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Nimbula Director v2.0.2[17] | July 30, 2012 |
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Nimbula Director v2.0.3[18] | August 7, 2012 |
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Nimbula Director v2.0.3.1[19] | September 12, 2012 |
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Nimbula Director v2.0.4[20] | November 14, 2012 |
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Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbula.
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