Abiquo Blog
Inspect and modify your VM filesystems remotely with libguestfs
In Abiquo environments, it's common for the Cloud Admin to have permissions to access every VM on the platform. However, sometimes it's not easy to get into these systems.Imagine you have a virtual machine that has lost connectivity, VNC is unavaliable, it's corrupted...
Abiquo API Versioning
Here at Abiquo we just released our 2.0-GA version. And among many improvements and goodies we released our API. From the beginning, we have always wanted to stick to RESTFul principles of design. We all agreed that RESTFul APIs when done well are simple to use and...
Abiquo Chef Integration: Building a template
When we finished our Chef integration, we wanted to give our users a template that was ready to use with Abiquo. Creating the template was a bit more painful than I expected at the start. ntp One thing we omitted in the first version was the time sync. If the...
Building a pluggable command line tool in Python
In their day-to-day work, developers often have to perform the same task over and over, losing valuable time that could be spent on more productive things. As good geeks/developers, the first thing that comes to mind is to automate those tasks, and writing small...
“Small agile beats big slow–big agile beats everything” – CIO’s Weigh in on Top 10 priorities
I recently came across an interesting article on InformationWeek by Rob Preston. He covers the top 10 technology priorities for US CIOs. A lot of the article was the usual buzzword bingo of "big data, consumerization of IT, and social media." Of course cloud...
Abiquo joins NetApp to deliver Storage as a Service
Today NetApp rolled out an announcement around new technologies and a partner ecosystem to deliver enterprise clouds. Abiquo has been working closely with the NetApp team to enable enterprise customers to deliver Storage as a Service across many hypervisor platforms...
Global Hosting Providers Select Abiquo for Enterprise Cloud Management
A number of hosting providers around the world, including Blackmesh, Bluefire, i2k2 Networks and Vivavo, have selected Abiquo’s Enterprise Edition as their Platform of choice for Enterprise Cloud Management. Each of them are now true customers, paying fees under a...
Cloud Management Guide Features Abiquo
Great new Cloud Management Guide written by Carlos Escapa, ex-VMware Director and Managing Director, Qumotech. Provides an in-depth overview of the cloud management market and compares top cloud management software providers including Abiquo. A Must Read Cloud paper.
CIO Whitepaper ‘Creating and Implementing an Enterprise Cloud Strategy’
New white paper on ‘Creating and Implementing an Enterprise Cloud Strategy” is written by Dave Linthicum for CIOs.
Abiquo Identifies Top 5 Virtualization Issues and their Implications
After extensive research among its more than 20,000 customers, open source users and prospects, Abiquo identified the top five issues facing enterprises today: Security and Compliance IT Organization Overload Lack of Visibility into Virtual Environments Unrealized...
Abiquo 1.5 Release
Abiquo 1.5 is here, it was announced today in conjuncture with our re-launch as a US based company. The first product to allow IT managers to automatically convert virtual machine images built for one hypervisor technology to any other hypervisor supported by the...
abiCloud 0.8.0 has been released!
We are glad to announce the release of a new version (0.8.0) of the abiCloud project, an open-source cloud platform manager which allows to easily deploy a cloud computing infrastructure . Users can create, manage and scale complext IT architectures easily trough our...
Abiquo 0.7.0 has been released
We are glad to announce the release of a new version (0.7) of the abiquo project, an open source cloud platform manager which allows to easily deploy a cloud computing infrastructure over organizations' datacenters. Organizations can create, manage and scale complext...
NEOTEC grant awarded
Just a brief post to announce that we have been awarded with the NEOTEC grant. It's a significant step in Spain, which will allow us to boost our operations. Expect interesting movements made by us in the next weeks 🙂