OpenNebula Announces vCloud API Implementation

OpenNebula now supports vCloud API, Amazon EC2 and OGF OCCI interfaces

Jun. 1, 2010 09:52 PM

OpenNebula has just announced an implementation of the vCloud Express API. The OpenNebula vCloud Service is a web service that enables you to launch and manage virtual machines in your OpenNebula installation through the vCloud Express API. The vCloud Express API in which this implementation is based, is the one specified by Terremark. The new vCloud service has been tested to work with the vCloud drivers of libcloud and Red Hat deltacloud.

With this new cloud service, OpenNebula implements most common Cloud interfaces: Amazon EC2 Query, OGF OCCI and VMware vCloud. Besides theses interfaces, OpenNebula also brings libvirt and a powerful CLI, and all of them can be used on the same OpenNebula instance, so users can use their favorite interface. Moreover all those interfaces can be used on any of the virtualization technologies supported, Xen, KVM and VMware.

These unique features confirm OpenNebula as the leading open-source technology for cloud computing, and demonstrate its adaptability and extensibility capabilities that many enterprise IT shops need for internal cloud adoption.

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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.