The OpenNebula Project has announced the release of version 2.0 of its OpenNebula Toolkit, a fully open source cloud computing tool for managing a data centre's virtual infrastructure. The toolkit includes features for integration, management, scalability, security and accounting that enterprise IT shops may need for private and hybrid cloud adoption. The latest release also seeks to emphasise standardisation, interoperability and portability, providing cloud users and administrators with a choice of several popular cloud interfaces and hypervisors. The aim is also to offer a flexible architecture that can accommodate practically any hardware and software combination in a data centre.
The new version is the result of close collaborations with IT organisations that have used OpenNebula to build large-scale production cloud infrastructures in both industry and academia.
OpenNebula 2.0 is projected to mark the end of a large and laborious release cycle. It is claimed to be an important milestone for the project in terms of functionality, maturity and community engagement. Apart from improved scalability and robustness and several other new features, the project is also seen to have opened the project QA & testing procedures and created a new add-on section for high-quality, third-party open-source components.
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