Cloud isn’t just about technology Offering a cloud service is not only about deploying VM instances, managing templates or delivering DevOps agility to your organisation. When you decide to productise and customise your cloud service, you need to think about other collateral actions that will directly contribute to the success of your cloud project. Features such […]
Public cloud services often come with a huge library of templates for virtual machines, but using these can be risky. With the Abiquo 3.0 Appliance Library, cloud administrators can take control over the virtual machine templates available to their users, ensuring that they only deploy templates that have been tested and approved.
Managed Service Providers and hosting companies worried about customers moving to Amazon can now offer True Hybrid Cloud services with Abiquo’s new Provider Edition Cloud Management Platform.
A key characteristic of a cloud solution is self-service – allowing the cloud consumer to provision their computing capabilities without the intervention of an administrator. Many IT administrators will shudder at the thought of providing the user with a full self service experience. Abiquo helps here by providing self service to the cloud consumers, whilst allowing the cloud administrator, or infrastructure owner to remain in complete control. Abiquo’s controlled self service is delivered through several different features.
Interoute’s partnerships with Abiquo and NetApp recognised With the help of Abiquo, Interoute the owner operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform, announced today it has been awarded two ‘Business Service Innovation’ awards by Global Telecoms Business for Interoute Virtual Data Centre(VDC). The two awards won in partnership with Abiquo and NetApp respectively recognise the […]
With the coming of the new year we often have time over the break to reflect on the experiences we’ve had and weigh up the good and the bad lessons from them.
There are hundreds of public clouds out there, with more coming every day. Most of them are not truly clouds, just a hosted service with “cloud” stamped on the website and no real changes to the offering. And the offerings that do have self-service are often klunky or ugly or both. Just because the user […]
Well VMworld is over for another year. The much anticipated event for many high tech fans means networking, new technology and of course parties. That said, we saw some interesting news come from VMworld this week and here’s a short recap and my thoughts. 1) Microsoft announces they offer a private cloud that is 4 […]
It’s been a busy week in the world of clouds. Following on the heels of our the newest Abiquo release ( v1.8), VMware rolls out the newest version of vSphere or Cloud Infrastructure as they are calling it, and Citrix makes a play to be a real cloud player by acquiring Cloud.com. It’s interesting to […]
A few weeks ago we launched the Cloud Accelerator Program with MSPExcellence to educate MSPs and Hosting Providers on how to successfully provide Cloud Services and offer a go-to-market solution for their offerings. The Cloud Accelerator Program kicks off with a series of educational “Manage the Cloud for Success” webinars to introduce interested MSP […]
