NEC Europe today announced that NEC Corporation has made a partnership agreement with PLDT (Philippines Long Distance Telephone Company), the Philippines’ largest telecom company, to enhance PLDT’s portfolio of cloud services with the launch of its own cloud infrastructure. After offering a set of different cloud services since 2010, PLDT is now ready to offer […]
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 […]
Last week we showcased Abiquo at VMworld in Barcelona. The event was a great opportunity for everyone in the industry to come together in the name of cloud. The Abiquo stand was a success receiving lots of visitors. Many were tempted to the stand by our ‘AC/DC’ style T-shirts which were hugely popular- we know […]
Abiquo will be attending VMworld in Barcelona from the 9th– 11th October 2012. This is the largest virtualisation specific event around and I’m really excited to be there rubbing shoulders with the top technology providers in the cloud. The team and I are looking forward to meeting current users of our platform as well introducing […]
We are pleased to announce that our new Abiquo 2.2 release includes a new integration with Nexenta Storage. With this integration, the engineering team has resolved a long-term technical debt. Abiquo’s external storage capabilities can be enabled in two different ways: The most common and recommended approach is to have a storage plugin for the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Demonstration of how you can use Abiquo to deploy a Jira server for your team in just a few minutes. Download the Chef template, select the resources you want to use (check the hardware requirements), select the Jira recipe and deploy. Of course, check that your VM has a usable IP address. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA6ZL3T6NZ4 P.S: […]
Today NetApp rolled out an announcement around new technologies and a partner ecosystem to deliver enterprise clouds. Abiquo has been working closely with the NetApp team to enable enterprise customers to deliver Storage as a Service across many hypervisor platforms and datacenter locations. Given the need to store and access big data, and the ever […]
Abiquo has partnered with NetApp and Nexenta, bringing new integration with their respective storage systems. We have, since our first enterprise release, managed storage resources using standards such as OpenSolaris ZFS and LVM/iSCSI, allocating them to Virtual Enterprises and allowing Enterprise Administrators to perform volume management tasks as well as allocation to specific virtual machines. […]
