Nebula Introduces Latest Release of Cosmos Enterprise Edition 

Nebula today announced new innovations in Nebula Cosmos. The enterprise edition system software enables fast and secure deployment, management, and monitoring of enterprise-grade OpenStack private clouds. Nebula Cosmos provides the fastest path for enterprises to deploy OpenStack and achieve the cost and simplicity benefits of cloud computing within the enterprise, without a large investment in people, time and expertise. New capabilities, including the industry's first VLAN model for OpenStack private cloud, provide a turnkey solution for rapid development and innovation across the enterprise.

Currently, enterprises are experiencing a tectonic shift in cloud computing where they are moving the majority of their cloud investments from infrastructure towards applications. Enterprises want the cost benefits of public cloud offerings, but the control and scalability of a private cloud. For enterprises to achieve 'Google cost' without 'Google scale,' optimized software is key. By decoupling cost from scale, enterprises can focus on application innovation versus infrastructure integration of IT resources.

"Now that OpenStack has established itself and is showing signs of readiness for enterprise production use, the long wait as enterprises and service providers move from the sidelines into true implementations can take place in earnest," wrote James Staten, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., in a November 2014 blog post titled, As OpenStack Stabilizes Big Questions Remain for the Foundation.

Nebula is an integrated system that enables enterprises to deploy a private cloud infrastructure without utilizing extensive on-site IT resources, by seamlessly integrating with existing enterprise architecture and workflow. The heart of the solution is the Nebula Cloud Controller and Cosmos, a curated OpenStack-based system used to orchestrate compute, storage, and network services and provide enterprise end-user functionality for rapid flexibility and scale.

The latest release of Nebula Cosmos enables the fastest path to OpenStack private clouds within the enterprise. It simplifies management across the entire cloud system through a unified management interface, which enables IT to provision compute, storage, and network resources via an intuitive self-service portal. Cosmos provides a non-disruptive path for IT organizations to deploy OpenStack private clouds and reduce operational complexity and risk.

New features include:

• Turnkey deployment: Extend enterprise VLANs into the private cloud. Offers the industry first VLAN model within an OpenStack private cloud. Enterprises can seamlessly create VLANs within Nebula to connect to their existing VLANs and networks. VLANs deliver network traffic segmentation for more security and predictable performance.
• Turnkey management: Extend enterprise identity and storage into the private cloud. Delivers granular identity and access management, further enhancing the LDAP and Active Directory integration. Provides granular project-based access controls, accelerating secure access to OpenStack private clouds. Enterprises can also now proactively manage storage resources for better capacity planning and greater cost savings.
• Turnkey monitoring: Enables support for collected and allows enterprises to leverage existing IT tools to monitor performance data of compute, storage, and network resources for greater visibility, control, and capacity planning.

"Our mission is to create a turnkey IT solution that transforms enterprises from a high cost legacy environment to a strategic private cloud environment at all levels of scale," said Tina Nolte, vice president of products at Nebula. "To do this we've built a product that allows for rapid deployment of OpenStack and seamless integration with existing identity, storage, and network configurations. With the latest release of Cosmos, we're empowering enterprise customers to leverage OpenStack private clouds and utilize existing enterprise workflows and architectures without added resources and cost."