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New Version of Abiquo Advances Cloud Management for Enterprises

Abiquo 1.8 Includes Cisco UCS Integration, Cisco Nexus 1000v Switch Support, High Availability, full Role-based Access Control and Active Directory/LDAP Integration

Las Vegas – July 11, 2011 – Today at Cisco Live, Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software provider, announced the general availability of Abiquo 1.8, the latest version of its flagship Enterprise Cloud Management solution. Abiquo 1.8 furthers Abiquo’s lead in allowing enterprises to coordinate virtual and physical infrastructure management by adding Cisco Unified Computing System as a device category in the physical inventory for hosts, and by supporting the Cisco Nexus 1000v switch. In addition, Abiquo 1.8 advances its leadership in business policy based Enterprise Cloud Management with completely configurable role-based access control, LDAP-based user authentication, as well as a vendor neutral, automatic VM restart capability that allows enterprises deploying multi-hypervisor datacenters to have a cost-effective, consistent and predictable high availability mechanism.

“At Abiquo, we’ve built our business by offering a solution built to fit the enterprise customer, not forcing the customer to fit our solution,” said Abiquo CEO Pete Malcolm. “We started by being the first company to offer support for all major hypervisors, and Abiquo 1.8 shows that we continue to innovate based on that premise. Enterprises need to be able to discover and manage physical infrastructure directly, not in an abstract way through a hypervisor, which is what our competitors espouse. Abiquo 1.8 advances this vision and delivers enterprise-class cloud management for even more control of critical cloud computing resources.”

Abiquo Support for Cisco

Abiquo 1.8 supports discovery and power management for the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). Specifically, the new version adds a new category to the Abiquo physical inventory for Cisco UCS chassis and blades. This allows an entire Cisco UCS to be added and managed as a single device. All Cisco blades that are part of Cisco UCS deployments are discovered and added to physical inventory. In addition, Cisco UCS modules can be individually power managed.

Abiquo 1.8 also supports any vSphere environment that uses the Cisco Nexus 1000v or VMware Distributed Virtual (DVS) switches. Support for these virtual switches allows customers to utilize all Abiquo value-added features without loss of vSphere functionality, providing for extended virtual machine mobility in VMware vSphere environments.

Stronger Policy-Based Cloud Management

Abiquo 1.8 deepens its role-based access control by providing the ability to define an unlimited number of individual user roles, and to assign any combination of privileges, selected from a comprehensive range, to each. This provides infinitely granular control of user permissions. In addition, Abiquo 1.8 delivers integration with any LDAP directory, such as Windows Active Directory, so enterprises can manage Abiquo users entirely through any LDAP directory, including Active Directory.

“Abiquo has been an important part of our strategic initiative to manage the needs of our clients focused on cloud-hosted technology implementations,” said Geoff Cubitt, president and chief technology officer of Roundarch, an Abiquo enterprise customer. “It’s apparent that they don’t build a one-size-fits-all solution for enterprise cloud management and have the needs of their customers in mind as they continue building functionality into their solution. Abiquo’s continuous innovation helps us develop the best possible solutions for our clients.”

Other Key Features Added to Abiquo 1.8

In addition to these major features, Abiquo 1.8 further extends its managed storage volume capabilities, adds secure virtual machine console connections, extends its API functionality for all newly introduced features, provides configurable host reservation to allow deployment flexibility, adds accounting enhancements, and further improves the user experience through its award winning GUI. For more information about Abiquo 1.8, visit Abiquo at booth #778 at Cisco Live or register to see a live technical demo online on July 21 at 10 AM PT.

About Abiquo

Abiquo is the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software company. Designed to meet strategic objectives, rather than as a temporary tactical fix, Abiquo is built on open standards, allowing organizations of all sizes to dramatically improve business agility, mitigate risk, and reduce costs. With Abiquo, organizations can use business policy to manage an entire, globally deployed computing infrastructure, comprising unlimited physical and Cloud resources including private, public and hybrid Clouds through a “single pane of glass”. As a result, Abiquo customers are able to significantly decrease the cost and complexity of managing their virtual IT environments, while maintaining control of the physical infrastructure and increasing agility to change hypervisors as needed. For more information, visit www.abiquo.com.