Abiquo 1.6 Released

Today we have announced next release of our revolutionary Cloud Management Software, Abiquo 1.6, that will begenerally available within 45 days. It includes an industry-standard API for Cloud administration, which speeds Cloud adoption by enabling enterprises to cost-effectively deploy and manage Cloud resources centrally. Further vendor independence support, with Citrix XenServer being added to the list of supported hypervisors, enterprise-class network management and multi-datacenter remote services.

“Abiquo’s latest release further demonstrates that we already deliver the management glue that Global 2000 enterprises and service providers need to connect virtual infrastructure resources for any hypervisor to create private clouds,” said Pete Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo. “We’re the first and only offering that delivers this while others are now only talking about vendor-specific solutions that won’t be available until 2011.” “With Abiquo 1.6’s new APIs and other advanced capabilities, companies of all sizes can now seamlessly connect and cost-effectively manage their internal and external virtual enterprises, datacenters, and processes from a single GUI.” 

Abiquo 1.5 was the industries first strategic cloud management solution that managed all aspects of the virtualization infrastructure, from the physical cores to the network and storage resources. It was vendor agnostic, allowing drag-and-drop V2V conversions between five of the most popular hypervisors, and practicle, designed from the ground up to be useful to enterprises.  It would allow users capture and store stateful virtual images in shared, private, and public image repositories. These repositories allowed customers to view all virtual images, centrally load gold images from an enterprise’s existing storage systems, and deploy them immediately. As a result, enterprises no longer needed to start from scratch on the Cloud; they could leverage and deploy these existing images. 

Now with version 1.6, Abiquo is offering a Cloud Operator API, inspired by Sun Public Cloud (Resource Cloud API), enabling an Operator to run a dynamic, scalable cloud that is configured based on automated capacity rules. With this interfaces, Abiquo has removed one of the biggest obstacles to adoption namely leverage and scalability because enterprises can now cost-effectively deploy and manage the growing Cloud resources centrally.

Extending Vendor Independence

Abiquo 1.6 increases vendor independence by adding Cloud management support and virtual to virtual conversion enablement for Citrix XenServer to Abiquo’s existing support for VMWare ESX and ESXi, Microsoft HyperV, KVM, VirtualBox and Xen hypervisors.

In addition, Abiquo 1.6 now offers extended Logical Volume Manager (LVM) storage support on Linux based Servers to manage iSCSI LUNs, adding to the existing support for OpenSolaris ZFS storage technology. The new LVM storage connector is ideal for small deployments or testing environments.

Increasing Enterprise-Class Capabilities

Abiquo 1.6 provides extended multi-datacenter remote services support, which allows the deployment of multiple datacenters without any special, high-end infrastructure requirements.

In addition, Abiquo 1.6 includes advanced network management capabilities including support for 802.1Q VLAN model with trunking, multiple NICs per Virtual machine, multiple Virtual LANS (VLANs) per virtual datacenter, named networks, fully configurable address spaces, Allocation Policy management based on VLAN availability, physical NIC customization, and support for DHCP Relays. These new capabilities are added to Abiquo’s existing network management capabilities including the ability to identify, purchase and assign public IP addresses at a targeted location as well as the ability to centrally track all networks running in virtual enterprises.

Combined, these new network management and multi-datacenter remote services capabilities increase the robustness and scalability of Abiquo’s vendor-independent cloud management solution. For more information about Abiquo, visit abiquo.com.