OpenNebula in Amazon EC2: a Private Cloud Within a Public Cloud

OpenNebula in Amazon EC2: a Private Cloud Within a Public Cloud

MADRID, December 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

    C12G Labs, the company behind the OpenNebula Project, is happy to announce the
availability of the OpenNebula Sandbox for Amazon EC2. OpenNebula is a widely-deployed
open-source management solution for enterprise data center virtualization and private
cloud computing that implements the Amazon EC2 interface. With the new Sandbox you can
deploy in a single click an AWS-compatible OpenNebula nested cloud on Amazon EC2, where
you can launch virtual machines within an Amazon instance.

    The OpenNebula Sandbox is a CentOS 6.3 virtual machine appliance with a pre-configured
automated installation of OpenNebula 3.8, a virtualization node using emulation (QEMU)
ready to execute virtual machines, and prepared images to offer a feature rich cloud
experience. Users are able to log into the OpenNebula cloud, monitor the managed
resources, and launch instances of virtual machines without the hassle of configuring a
physical infrastructure.

    The Sandbox provides a fast and easy way for cloud trainers to teach OpenNebula, for
cloud builders and operators to evaluate OpenNebula, and for developers to test their
integrations against a real controlled OpenNebula environment. It is not intended for
production environments due to the overhead in the hardware emulation. However the
OpenNebula innovative functionality for cloudbursting opens the possibility of using the
OpenNebula Sandbox as an Amazon-hosted broker to orchestrate and aggregate different
Amazon availability zones.

    OpenNebula Sandbox is part of a new program created by C12G Labs that aims to provide
different tools and guides to eliminate the challenges of implementing a small-scale
OpenNebula cloud for development, testing or integration. The Sandbox is also available
for VirtualBox, KVM, and VMware.

    About OpenNebula and C12G

    OpenNebula delivers the most feature-rich, customizable and open solution to build
enterprise virtualized data centers and private clouds. OpenNebula is an active project
with a very large user base, with more than 5,000 downloads per month and thousands of
deployments that include leading research and supercomputing centers like CERN, FermiLab,
ESA and SARA; and industry leaders like RIM, China Mobile, Akamai and Telefonica O2.

    C12G Labs delivers a commercial distribution of OpenNebula for organizations looking
for a certified, long-term supported platform. OpenNebula and C12G are trademarks of C12G
Labs. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification
purposes and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

    More info: http://www.OpenNebula.org

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CONTACT: Ignacio M. Llorente, contact@opennebula.org, +34-91-3947616