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 through 2013 . it developed software for the implementation of public and private cloud computing environments . contents 1 history 2 features 2.1 release history 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was first incorporated as benguela based in menlo park california with a development center in cape town south africa . 1 2 it was founded in late 2008 by chris pinkham and willem van biljon who had developed the amazon elastic compute cloud ec2 . 3 the company raised a total of 20.75 million in venture funding from sequoia capital accel partners and vmware . 4 5 6 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 . 7 8 diane greene and roelof botha became members of the board of directors at that time . 7 3 eventually the company had its office in mountain view california . a public beta version of its software was announced in december 2010 . 9 nimbula director 1.0 was released in april 2011 . 10 nimbula was named a cool vendor in cloud management by gartner in april 2012 . 11 in october 2012 nimbula joined the openstack foundation . 12 in march 2013 nimbula was acquired by oracle corporation . 13 features edit 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 . 14 release history edit product released highlighted features nimbula director v1 .0 april 6 2011 nimbula director v1 .5 september 26 2011 14 policy based automation persistent block store customizable installer for os nimbula director v2 .0.1 15 june 14 2012 orchestrations vmware esxi support aws api shim nimbula director v2 .0.2 16 july 30 2012 maintenance release nimbula director v2 .0.3 17 august 7 2012 maintenance release nimbula director v2 .0.3.1 18 september 12 2012 maintenance release nimbula director v2 .0.4 19 november 14 2012 maintenance release references edit charles babcock august 26 2010 . nimbula secures 15 million venture capital investment . information week . retrieved july 6 2013 . 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 . a b patrick hoge june 21 2010 . amazon vets start cloud computing firm . san francisco business times . retrieved july 6 2013 . http gigaom.com cloud the 20 million club 10 well funded cloud startups http venturebeat.com 2010 08 23 nimbula funding http www.readwriteweb.com cloud 2010 06 former aws execs launch nimbula.php a b diane greene is back nimbula leaves the stealth mode and enters the iaas cloud computing market . virtualization.com . june 23 2010 . retrieved july 6 2013 . http www.networkworld.com news 2010 062310 amazon ec2 cloud startup.html antone gonsalves december 7 2010 . nimbula launches cloud os in public beta . information week . nimbula announces immediate availability of nimbula director 1.0 . press release . april 6 2011 . archived from the original on april 7 2011 . retrieved july 6 2013 . nimbula named a cool vendor in cloud management by leading analyst firm . press release . april 16 2012 . archived from the original on july 6 2013 . retrieved july 6 2013 . http nimbula.com news press release nimbula joins openstack community http www.oracle.com us corporate acquisitions nimbula index.html a b nimbula releases nimbula director 1.5 and expands cloud partner ecosystem . press release . september 26 2011 . archived from the original on october 4 2011 . https nimbula.com secure products release note 387 https nimbula.com secure products release note 406 https nimbula.com secure products release note 410 https nimbula.com secure products release note 439 https nimbula.com secure products release note 476 external links edit official website v t e cloud computing applications enstratius google for work apps for work drive hp cloud closed microsoft online rackspace salesforce platforms alpha7 amazon appscale bluemix cloud foundry cocaine paas engine yard enstratius exo platform ge predix greenqloud app engine heroku hp helion inktank jelastic mendix microsoft azure outsystems openqrm openshift orangescape rightscale force.com vmware vcloud air infrastructure amazon abiquo enterprise edition cloudstack cloudsigma emc atmos enstratius eucalyptus fujitsu gogrid 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