Starting in April 2014, Randy Bias wrote an interesting series of blog posts entitled “The 6 Requirements of Enterprise-grade OpenStack” in which he made some interesting points about what Enterprises need from a cloud management platform. But if you need to deliver an Enterprise hybrid cloud solution today, maybe there’s another way!

You might have heard about Ansible recently, but if you haven't, we recommend that you have a look at the Ansible official website. To summarize using Ansible's own description: “Ansible is a radically simple IT orchestration engine that automates configuration...

Some time ago, we had a couple of inquiries about support for running KVM hypervisors with Open vSwitch (OVS). Older versions of OVS included the brcompat module, which made OVS work with regular Linux bridges instead of its own virtual switches. This meant Abiquo...

Most of the examples we have provided of how to interact with the Abiquo API are written in Python, so now it's time to put some rubies in our blog. We will show you how to use Ruby to interact with Abiquo APIs. First we will consume events by connecting to the...

Abiquo’s award-winning user interface provides a simple, intuitive interface for both end users and systems administrators to manage virtualized cloud environments. However when you need to deliver business information to the people who need it, Abiquo Reports can be...

Abiquo supports two basic charging models for cloud resources:
Allocation – where customers are allocated a pool of cloud resources (vCPU,vRAM,storage etc.) and are charged for those resources regardless of whether they are consumed or not.
Consumption – where customers are charged for the resources they have actually consumed, typically on an hourly basis.
Read more about how your business can effectively utilise Abiquo’s billing and accounting services.

The Abiquo user interface makes it easy for Abiquo users to meter and charge for; compute, storage and network resources of various types. Learn how to do more with metering and charging with Abiquo.

A key characteristic of a cloud solution is self-service – allowing the cloud consumer to provision their computing capabilities without the intervention of an administrator. Many IT administrators will shudder at the thought of providing the user with a full self service experience. Abiquo helps here by providing self service to the cloud consumers, whilst allowing the cloud administrator, or infrastructure owner to remain in complete control. Abiquo’s controlled self service is delivered through several different features.

Whilst the debate on public, private, or hybrid cloud continues, it is clear that we should actually be thinking about the application itself, rather than defining the platform that it runs on. There are very clear application use cases for backends sat on a private...

When developing Abiquo v2.6, simplicity and functionality was the focus and the workflow acceptance tool has achieved just that. The new workflow feature will allow you to create your own tools to interact with Abiquo processes at the very same moment they are being...

Guest blogger: Alex Heneveld, CTO at CloudSoft We recently had the pleasure of hosting a visit from Abiquo; pleasurable because it quickly morphed into a hackathon with Xavier Fernandez which yielded a nicely working integration. A long flight gave me the chance to...