Abiquo is a leading developer of Cloud management solutions founded in 2006.
Abiquo envisions a future where private and public Clouds are fully interoperable and vendor neutral. The company embraces an open-source model where both community users and commercial organizations can fully benefit from the Cloud revolution.
Founded by Diego Marino and Xavier Fernández in 2006, Abiquo initially focussed on Grid Computing solutions, where it developed a number of key techniques, several of which enabled key functionality in today’s product. Interest in Cloud technologies led to the birth of the AbiCloud open source project in early 2008, and to its first pre-release in April 2009. Over the following 10 months, AbiCloud was extensively tested by the open source community and by many commercial organizations, including a number of Global 1000 companies. Formally released in February 2010, the AbiCloud project became the company’s flagship Abqiuo product, with a Community Edition focussing on the open source community, and an Enterprise Edition to meet the needs of commercial organizations. In March 2010, Abiquo announced the opening of new global headquarters in Redwood City, California, new offices in London and Barcelona, and funding in excess of $5M. The company also announced Abiquo version 1.5, including its revolutionary V2V feature allowing seamless conversion of virtual images between all major hypervisors, ending the tyranny of vendor lock-in at a stroke.
Enthusiastic support from its users, many of whom discontinued projects with other Cloud management vendors, allowed Abiquo to attract both internationally renowned management, and substantial funding.
Designed from the ground-up to provide next generation Cloud management, Abiquo is the most complete and advanced solution available on the market today. Abiquo not only provides class-leading features like virtual to virtual conversion, it is easy to implement and operate, liberating your IT organization from the drudgery of managing thousands of virtual machines, without relinquishing control of the physical infrastructure. Abiquo empowers authorized users and groups, by allowing them to manage their own virtual enterprises within allocated resource limits. New virtual machines or pre-built appliances can be deployed in seconds, dramatically improving efficiency and allowing you to regain business agility. Hypervisor Independence Supported hypervisors include: Multi-tenancy with Delegated Control Resource Limits Network and Storage Management Workload Management Multiple Image Libraries Simplicity of Installation Enterprise ScalabilityAbiquo Overview
Abiquo was designed to avoid dependence on any hypervisor. Not only are all major hypervisors fully and simultaneously supported, Abiquo allows conversion of virtual machines from one hypervisor to another in any combination, completely eliminating vendor lock-in with a single drag and drop operation.
Hierarchical user management and role based permissions allow delegation of management tasks according to the organizations needs. Since any user’s view is limited to the hierarchy below them, Abiquo provides multi-tenancy with full isolation, whether to internal groups, or to external customers. A single Web-based management console is context sensitive to the role and permissions of the relevant user, reducing complexity and providing unparalleled ease of use.
Define CPU, memory and storage limits for each Virtual Enterprise, including both hard (enforced) and soft (warning) levels for each. Since no Virtual Enterprise can exceed its allocated resource limit, there is no danger of users exceeding the capabilities of the physical infrastructure.
Automatically allocate network resources, such as public and private IP addresses from one or more defined pools to Virtual Appliances. Manage storage resources from popular standards and vendors, allocating them to Virtual Enterprises and allowing Enterprise Admins to perform volume management tasks, as well as allocation to specific Virtual Machines.
Abiquo automatically allocates Virtual Machines to physical servers according to defined workload policy. This policy completely isolates Virtual Enterprises and users from physical machines, but provides for automatic hypervisor selection, load balancing, security and compliance, according to the needs of the organization or relevant groups.
Abiquo supports public, shared and private libraries. Where permitted by role, users can capture and store Virtual Machine images, and even combine sets of VM images into a single appliance for easy re-deployment. Shared libraries allow the IT organization to define standard VM images, for example built to company anti-virus, directory and control requirements. Public VM images from reputable vendors can be downloaded for rapid deployment of complex systems, dramatically reducing implementation and evaluation times.
Abiquo can be fully installed on a live running system, irrespective of the hypervisors in use. It performs automatic inventory of both hardware and virtual machines, making deployment a breeze at whatever pace the organization desires.
The Abiquo solution is designed to scale to meet the needs of the largest organizations employing large numbers of globally deployed datacenters and tens (even hundreds) of thousands of physical machines. Yet it is equally at home in a small development lab with only a few machines to manage. Abiquo is built on industry standards to operate in conjunction with other management tools, Web services, databases, storage systems and networking.
