Abiquo and DigitalOcean team up to deliver true enterprise-grade hybrid cloud through Apache jclouds community
London, United Kingdom (PRWEB UK) 15 April 2014 -- Abiquo, creators of hybrid cloud orchestration platform Abiquo anyCloud, announce support for the new generation of cloud services through integration with DigitalOcean. This adds to the enterprise-grade management and control over public cloud environments from Google Compute Engine, HP Cloud, Amazon EC2 and Rackspace with one consistent interface.
Abiquo’s development engineer Ignasi Barrera is an established, long time Apache jclouds contributor, and developed this integration in two weeks by creating a connector in the open source Apache jclouds project. This is now available for any other application developer to use.
Abiquo’s development engineer Ignasi Barrera is an established, long time Apache jclouds contributor, and developed this integration in two weeks by creating a connector in the open source Apache jclouds project. This is now available for any other application developer to use.
“The motivation to integrate with DigitalOcean was clear; we already used the DigitalOcean platform in our development process, and our developers felt so strongly about the functionality that DigitalOcean provides that they have gone to the extent of automating part of our continuous integration software development process,” said Abiquo Co-Founder and CTO, Xavier Fernandez. “To do this in a standard way, they created the jclouds connector for DigitalOcean, integrated it to Abiquo anyCloud and contributed it to the open source community for anyone to use.”
“DigitalOcean simply offers high performance compute resource coupled with a competitive pricing model. More specifically, with DigitalOcean being based on Solid State Disk (SSD), the time to complete tasks is considerably less than with traditional storage technologies i.e the time to spin up a server is reduced and the performance for input/output intensive tasks is far more improved”, Xavier added.
By adding DigitalOcean support to Abiquo anyCloud using the new connector, DigitalOcean users are provided with True Hybrid cloud features of an enterprise-grade quality. John Edgar Chief Evangelist at DigitalOcean stated; “We really like the enhanced functionality this offers developers with. This, coupled with the Apache jclouds connector opens up DigitalOcean to a wider community of Apache jclouds users. It is really interesting to see what combining the technology behind Abiquo anyCloud and DigitalOcean can achieve.”
Through Abiquo anyCloud, DigitalOcean users can effectively manage their cloud accounts, and can also obtain a full audit trail of activities across all their public cloud accounts.
Additionally, enhanced compliance measures are available to users in the form of workflow approvals, where primary account users will receive an email to approve or reject any new VM creation from a team member account.
Security is also another key feature that Abiquo anyCloud provides to DigitalOcean users; through the creation of member accounts users are able to add team members to these accounts, by starting with a primary account and then inviting the wider team to share the Abiquo anyCloud account. They can use the same cloud provider accounts without needing to know the security credentials.
For businesses with hybrid clouds including traditional hypervisors, the Abiquo software is available to install on-premise.
The Abiquo and DigitalOcean Apache jclouds connector is available to download now. To learn more about Abiquo anyCloud and signup for a free account please visit: http://www.abiquo.com/anycloud/.
To learn more about Abiquo and the on-premise software, please visit: http://www.abiquo.com.
For more information on the services that DigitalOcean provide, please visit:
https://www.digitalocean.com.
Aanya Ali, Abiquo, http://www.abiquo.com, +44 7846357780, [email protected]
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