New OpenNebula Apps Suite for Cloud Application Management

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New OpenNebula Apps Suite for Cloud Application Management

Automatic configuration and management of complex multi-tiered applications on OpenNebula clouds

MADRID, January 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    Continuing its strong commitment to open-source and to the OpenNebula community, the
OpenNebula Project is pleased to announce the open-source release of OpenNebulaApps, a
suite of tools for users and administrators of OpenNebula clouds to simplify and optimize
multi-tiered application management. The new software has been released under Apache
license and will be incorporated into the main distribution of OpenNebula. After the
announcement made two weeks ago about the public distribution of OpenNebula Maintenance
Updates and Service Packs, the incorporation of this innovative functionality consolidates
OpenNebula's position as the most advanced, enterprise-ready open-source cloud management
platform.

    OpenNebulaApps provides a service management layer on top of OpenNebula infrastructure
management capabilities by configuring the stack in the virtual machines, managing
multi-tiered services, and building a private market to distribute appliances across
several OpenNebula instances. Because Cloud applications consist of stacks of software
components, OpenNebulaApps contributes to significantly reduce the time needed to build,
distribute, and run new applications. The suite includes:

       
        - AppStage to perform the automatic installation and configuration of the
          software stack that constitutes an application environment, enabling you to easily
          define software configurations for your virtual machines and share them with other
          users
        - AppFlow to enable the automatic execution of multi-tiered applications
          composed of interconnected virtual machines, managing them as a single entity
        - AppMarket to build a centralized and private catalog of cloud applications to
          share and distribute virtual appliances across different OpenNebula instances.

    This new enterprise functionality, along with the existing production-ready processes
for software release, Q&A and upgrade, and the availability of several support options
directly from developers, reduces cost and complexity of building and operating OpenNebula
clouds and ensures its long term stability and performance.

    About OpenNebula

    OpenNebula delivers the most feature-rich, customizable and open solution to build
enterprise clouds and virtualized data centers. 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,
NASA, ESA and SARA; and industry leaders like RIM, China Mobile, Dell, Cisco, Akamai and
Telefonica O2. All 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

OpenNebula

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

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