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December 19, 2014

New Nebula Solution Helps Enterprises Expedite OpenStack Adoption

Implementing OpenStack solutions can be a challenge, so a company called Nebula has introduced Nebula Cosmos Enterprise Edition to help make the task faster and more foolproof.

“Our mission is to create a turnkey IT solution that transforms enterprises from a high cost legacy environment to a strategic private cloud environment at all levels of scale,” said Tina Nolte, vice president of products at Nebula. “To do this we’ve built a product that allows for rapid deployment of OpenStack and seamless integration with existing identity, storage, and network configurations. With the latest release of Cosmos, we’re empowering enterprise customers to leverage OpenStack private clouds and utilize existing enterprise workflows and architectures without added resources and cost.”

This solution is unique, says Nebula’s Huy Nguygen, because it brings VLAN capabilities to OpenStack. (OpenStack is a cloud-focused open source effort initiated by NASA, Nebula, and Rackspace (News - Alert). Today many companies are involved in OpenStack – either deploying or writing code based on it.)

The Nebula VLAN model enables customers to extend their existing VLAN and workflows into the cloud to do things like segmentation and have an added level of security. That creates a simple bridge to SDN, Nguygen says.

Enterprises have already made huge investments in existing network infrastructure, so adding new technologies like OpenStack to those existing networks can be expensive and adversely impact the performance of those networks if not properly implemented. But introducing VLAN capability and turnkey management enables OpenStack to fit more seamlessly into enterprises’ existing infrastructure and processes.

Turnkey management, Nguygen says, extends enterprise identity and storage into the private cloud. That helps enterprises do more effective capacity planning. It lets enterprises use Active Directory identity stores, and tie that to the private cloud. It delivers the NetApp integration that Nebula announced back in June. It enables enterprises to use their existing IT monitoring tools for the new functionality. And it allows for data replication and disaster recovery.




Edited by Peter Bernstein
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