Nimbula releases new version of its cloud OS

Nimbula calls itself a cloud operating system — because it helps its corporate clients manage their various cloud assets — private, public, and hybrid — from one place, with a single login. It’s new product is called the Nimbula Director 1.5.

Lot of talk about the “hybrid cloud

He said there’s been a lot of talk about the “hybrid cloud,” nevertheless it’s been just that. Until now, no one has in effect been able to do it then. During gaming company Zynga was a front-runner, and built a hybrid cloud internally — because of the huge cloud computing needs of its popular social games, Nimbula is one of the first to offer it to third parties, he said.

EMC, VMware and Citrix all offer products that require clients to rely system administrators to manage large installations, he said. Nevertheless Nimbula removes that middleman, Pinkham explained, and allows companies to manage both public and private cloud computing and storage assets more simply, and to scale them as needed. If clients want to keep existing infrastructure products, they can build upon that, say by adding public cloud infrastructure.