Nimbula

Nimbula, Inc

Type| Privately held company
Industry| Private and Public cloud computing, Internet hosting services
Fate| Acquired by Oracle Corporation
Founded| April 10, 2010 (2010-04-10) (formerly known, in stealth mode, as Benguela, late 2008)
Founder|

* Chris Pinkham
* Willem Van Biljon

Headquarters|

* Mountain View, California
* Cape Town, South Africa

Products| Nimbula Director
Website| Nimbula.com

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]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Features
* 2.1 Release history
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## History

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]

## Features

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
* 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 CPU cores without a license fee.[15]

### Release history

Product  | Released  | Highlighted features

|
|

Nimbula Director v1.0  | April 6, 2011  |
Nimbula Director v1.5  | September 26, 2011[15] |

* Policy-based automation
* Persistent block store
* Customizable installer for OS

Nimbula Director v2.0.1[16] | June 14, 2012  |

* Orchestrations
* VMware ESXi Support
* AWS API "Shim"

Nimbula Director v2.0.2[17] | July 30, 2012  |

* Maintenance release

Nimbula Director v2.0.3[18] | August 7, 2012  |

* Maintenance release

Nimbula Director v2.0.3.1[19] | September 12, 2012  |

* Maintenance release

Nimbula Director v2.0.4[20] | November 14, 2012  |

* Maintenance release

## References

1. ↑ "Nimbula Inc - Company Profile and News" (in en). https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0346711Z:US.
2. ↑ Charles Babcock (August 26, 2010). "Nimbula Secures $15 Million Venture Capital Investment". Information Week. http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/hosted/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227001128.
3. ↑ Jon Brodkin (June 15, 2010). "Amazon EC2 creators to launch cloud computing start-up: Benguela building cloud infrastructure software, with focus on virtualization". Network World. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/061510-benguela-cloud-computing.html.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Patrick Hoge (June 21, 2010). "Amazon vets start cloud computing firm". San Francisco Business Times. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/06/21/daily39.html.
5. ↑ "The $20 Million Club: 10 Well-Funded Cloud Startups". 29 October 2010. http://gigaom.com/cloud/the-20-million-club-10-well-funded-cloud-startups/.
6. ↑ "Nimbula raises $15M to expand cloud service". 23 August 2010. https://venturebeat.com/2010/08/23/nimbula-funding/.
7. ↑ [1]
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Diane Greene is back: Nimbula leaves the stealth mode and enters the IaaS cloud computing market". Virtualization.com. June 23, 2010. http://virtualization.info/en/news/2010/06/diane-greene-is-back-nimbula-leaves-the-stealth-mode-and-enters-the-iaas-cloud-computing-market.html.
9. ↑ "Amazon EC2 creator launches private cloud start-up". http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/062310-amazon-ec2-cloud-startup.html.
10. ↑ Antone Gonsalves (December 7, 2010). "Nimbula Launches Cloud OS In Public Beta". Information Week. http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228600108.
11. ↑ "Nimbula Announces Immediate Availability of Nimbula Director 1.0". Press release. April 6, 2011. http://nimbula.com/news/press_release/nimbula-announces-immediate-availability-of-nimbula-director-10/.
12. ↑ "Nimbula Named a 'Cool Vendor' in Cloud Management by Leading Analyst Firm". Press release. April 16, 2012. http://nimbula.com/news/press_release/nimbula-named-a-cool-vendor-in-cloud-management-by-leading-analyst-firm/.
13. ↑ "Nimbula - the Cloud OS Company - Press Releases". http://nimbula.com/news/press_release/nimbula-joins-openstack-community/.
14. ↑ "Oracle and Nimbula". Oracle. 13 March 2013. http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/nimbula/index.html.
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Nimbula Releases Nimbula Director 1.5 and Expands Cloud Partner Ecosystem". Press release. September 26, 2011. http://nimbula.com/news/press_release/nimbula-releases-nimbula-director-15-and-expands-cloud-partner-ecosystem/.
16. ↑ "Nimbula Director KVM 64-bit v.2.0.1". 14 November 2012. https://nimbula.com/secure/products/release_note/387/.
17. ↑ "Nimbula Director KVM 64-bit v.2.0.2". 30 July 2012. https://nimbula.com/secure/products/release_note/406/.
18. ↑ "Nimbula Director KVM 64-bit v.2.0.3". 7 August 2012. https://nimbula.com/secure/products/release_note/410/.
19. ↑ "Nimbula Director KVM 64-bit v.2.0.3.1". 12 September 2012. https://nimbula.com/secure/products/release_note/439/.
20. ↑ "Nimbula Director KVM 64-bit v.2.0.4". 14 November 2012. https://nimbula.com/secure/products/release_note/476/.

## External links

* Official website

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