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Developing tools with Abiquo API: Event notifier

March 7th, 2013 / Marc Morata

 One of the KEY points of Abiquo is that you can use its API to access ALL resources and actions available from the graphical user interface. This enables us to create an infinite number of external applications that you can integrate with your environment or platform. All the API resources are documented on our wiki. In this […]

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Cooking your own configuration in the cloud

November 12th, 2012 / Ignasi Barrera

 Although configuration is one of the most important aspects of cloud deployment, it is often neglected. There are several automation tools and platforms available, such as Opscode Chef or Puppet, but a minimal infrastructure is usually required to be able to use them. They are really good at automating configuration in large environments, but this […]

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Abiquo 2.2 – Improving ESX capabilities

October 10th, 2012 / Xavi Fernandez

 Abiquo users in Proof of Concept and Production environments send us a large number of requirements, features, improvements and other comments that we evaluate and try to include in our roadmap in order to better cover and fit our customers’ needs. In Abiquo 2.2, we decided to further investigate and engage with some of these […]

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Abiquo 2.2 – Branding (white labelling) Web Application

October 4th, 2012 / Xavi Fernandez

 It’s time everyone got into Abiquo branding! Our customers can completely re-brand the whole product and adapt the platform to their logos, brands and corporate style. But before Abiquo 2.2, this capability required time, effort and knowledge. Users had to know how to work with the Flex files, folders and logos and compile the user […]

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Abiquo 2.0 from 1000 feet

October 1st, 2012 / Daniel Estevez

 Would you like to know how a cloud management platform is built? What is its architecture? What modules and technologies are used to build the platform and for intra-platform communications? Last year we had to face some serious scalability and robustness issues with our platform: how could we manage multiple datacenters with remote services, storage […]

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The jclouds way

July 24th, 2012 / Ignasi Barrera

 One of the main goals of the cloud, and in particular IaaS, is to automate the deployment of infrastructure resources, such as compute, storage and networking. Although this automation may be through the consoles of different providers, it should be flexible enough to meet the needs of each tenant, and an API is a must […]

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Inspect and modify your VM filesystems remotely with libguestfs

June 26th, 2012 / Marc Morata

 In Abiquo environments, it’s common for the Cloud Admin to have permissions to access every VM on the platform. However, sometimes it’s not easy to get into these systems. Imagine you have a virtual machine that has lost connectivity, VNC is unavaliable, it’s corrupted or you don’t know the login and password to get some […]

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Abiquo API Versioning

June 20th, 2012 / ssedano

 Here at Abiquo we just released our 2.0-GA version. And among many improvements and goodies we released our API. From the beginning, we have always wanted to stick to RESTFul principles of design. We all agreed that RESTFul APIs when done well are simple to use and easy to understand. We want to not only […]

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Abiquo Chef Integration: Building a template

May 21st, 2012 / Marc Morata

 When we finished our Chef integration, we wanted to give our users a template that was ready to use with Abiquo. Creating the template was a bit more painful than I expected at the start. ntp One thing we omitted in the first version was the time sync. If the difference between the clock of the machine […]

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Building a pluggable command line tool in Python

May 7th, 2012 / Ignasi Barrera

 In their day-to-day work, developers often have to perform the same task over and over, losing valuable time that could be spent on more productive things. As good geeks/developers, the first thing that comes to mind is to automate those tasks, and writing small scripts or programs to perform them is the most common solution. […]

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Audio blog: What is Shadow IT?

August 31st, 2015 / Ian Finlay

  You may also like to read the related White Paper.  

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Abiquo’s Hybrid Cloud Management Platform now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

August 24th, 2015 / Ian Finlay

 Get your hybrid cloud running in less time than ever before! Cloud management expert Abiquo today announced its hybrid cloud management platform is available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Abiquo will enable simplified deployment and management of compute, storage and network services across Azure, reducing barriers for those looking to consume hybrid cloud within their […]

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Audio blog: OpenStack is a cloud toolkit

August 11th, 2015 / Ian Finlay

   

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Audio blog: The problem with public cloud templates

August 11th, 2015 / Ian Finlay

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Audio blog: 9 challenges of Shadow IT in Public Cloud

July 31st, 2015 / Ian Finlay

  You may also like to read the related White Paper.  

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Audio blog: What Abiquo brings to Service Providers

July 24th, 2015 / Ian Finlay

   

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Audio blog: Time to be proactive with Public IT

July 22nd, 2015 / Ian Finlay

   

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Audio blog: Public IT is more about the application than infrastructure

July 21st, 2015 / Ian Finlay

   

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New launch of Abiquo 3.4 incorporates Docker integration

June 1st, 2015 / Ian Finlay

Abiquo today launches the latest version of its cloud management platform – Abiquo 3.4. With many CIOs and IT managers struggling with managing virtualisation, public clouds and the emergence of Docker container technology, Abiquo 3.4 is designed to provide them with the tools they require in order to help improve the agility of their businesses, control the costs of IT systems, while maintaining compliance with the IT policies that senior management demands.

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Abiquo at the Enterprise Cloud Computing and Virtualisation Conference

March 12th, 2015 / Ian Finlay

 Just a quick post to say we’re going to be at the Enterprise Cloud Computing and Virtualisation Conference at the Russell Hotel in London next Wednesday 18th March. If you’d like to attend, you can register at: http://www.whitehallmedia.co.uk/eccv/ Hope to see you there!  

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