Nimbula Director

Why Nimbula Director?

More than ever, today’s businesses demand far greater operational agility, flexibility, and control just to maintain their existing competitive advantages. At a minimum, businesses today must have:

• Autonomy and control of their own compute needs, delivered without red tape accelerating the development of new initiatives to market.
• Cost transparency that ties capital investments to business outcomes.
• Flexibility that allows businesses to choose the right tool for the right task while adhering to necessary security, compliance, or regulatory requirements.
• No organization is an island any longer – collaboration must be easy to setup and tear down so business arrangements can be initiated, executed, modified, and returned without a massive effort from IT

Cloud is a technology that holds the promise to solve all these business computing dilemmas. Nimbula Director is the only cloud product that delivers.

Nimbula Director At A Glance

Provides the most cost-effective and secure way to build and manage clouds with global reach and scale

Meaningful scalability: Many infrastructures claim scalability to large numbers of workloads. Only Nimbula Director provides scalability to thousands of nodes and tens of thousands of instances without sacrifices.

Streamlined cloud operations: Nimbula Director offers the highest levels of automation to deliver a hands-off cloud.

Optimized for low cost cloud-ready datacenters: Nimbula Director works with commodity servers, storage, and networks.

Centralized management of all cloud resources across sites and cloud providers: Nimbula Director clouds can span multiple geographic locations to create a seamless global pool of compute, network, and storage resources. Furthermore, Nimbula Director manages resources in public clouds such as Amazon’s EC2 to provide true hybrid cloud today.

Increased security for cloud workloads: Nimbula’s innovative and unique permissions and authentication system combined with its policy-based network isolation functionality ensure that Nimbula Director clouds are the most secure in the industry.

Provides the most functionality and flexibility for end users for the highest possible business agility

Secure self-service collaboration: Nimbula Director clouds enable their customers to collaborate amongst each other with precision control and without support requests to centralized administrators. It is the world’s first general purpose, multi-tenant, self-service collaborative system.

Simple, powerful, and securely delegated end user self-service: Within the constraints set in advance by administrators, end users can quickly and independently deploy and configure workloads from centrally maintained templates, without any intervention by cloud administrators.

Benefits

• Increased business agility: Secure self-service enables end users to experiment with new ideas any time and bring concepts to delivery orders of magnitude faster than ever before.
• Low cost cloud infrastructure: both capital and operational expenses are minimized through automation, the leveraging of commodity components, and the ability to manage multiple sites as a single resource pool.
• Security: Centralized network and authorization policies ensure that the right people are using the right resources at all times.
• Cost transparency: All cloud activity is logged, metered and assigned to users and accounts so that each tenant is aware of the costs incurred for their work.
• Controlled use of public cloud: Where private cloud capacity is insufficient, Nimbula Director seamlessly manages bursting to the public cloud and adds the controls necessary for IT to enforce the required compliance and policy. Public cloud becomes just one more tool in the IT toolkit IT once again becomes a partner for the business.

How It Works

Nimbula Director powerfully abstracts the underlying technology to present a coherent view of a completely automated on-premise compute and storage cloud. Providing a one-stop virtual data center management solution, Nimbula Director isolates customers from the operational and hardware complexity associated with deploying compute in the static private data center.

A RESTful HTTP API provides a uniform and comprehensive interface to all aspects of cloud resource control, including access to both on-premise and external private and public clouds. Cloud resources can also be managed via a command line interface (CLI) and web control panel, built on top of the API.

Beneath the virtual data center abstraction sits a physical layer of storage, network and compute hardware managed by multilayer control software. Nimbula Director integrates the Linux operating system and KVM hypervisor with node and network management software on each node to achieve automated deployment and configuration.