Dear OCCI members, I though this may be of interest for some of you... -- The OpenNebula team is proud to announce the availability of OpenNebula 1.4 (Hourglass), a new stable release of the OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Manager. OpenNebula focuses on incorporating bleeding edge technologies and innovations in many areas of virtual infrastructure management and Cloud Computing. OpenNebula 1.4 aims to be the swiss-army knife of Cloud Computing, letting you deploy any type of Cloud. Please note that OpenNebula 1.4 is suitable for production settings, and therefore it is meant to be a replacement for the last stable release, OpenNebula 1.2. Highlights of OpenNebula 1.4 are... * EC2 Query API interface on top of OpenNebula, so you can turn your OpenNebula installation in a Public Cloud * Support of OGF's Open Cloud Compute Interface specification * Support for the VMware Hypervisor family * Multiple user support and access-right control for Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks * Advance contextualization support to integrate VM packs and implement multi-component services * A new OpenNebula Cloud API (OCA) to easily develop any cloud interface or cloud application * Easy integration with your data-center services and procedures with a new hook system * Many bug fixes, and scalability and performance improvements in several components of the OpenNebula system * A whole new set of documentation pages, guides and examples * Support for LVM storage The OpenNebula Team! QUICK LINKS ----------------------- * Download: http://downloads.dsa-research.org/opennebula/one-1.4.0 * Release notes: http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php?id=documentation:rn-rel1.4 * Documentation: http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php?id=documentation:rel1.4 * About OpenNebula: http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php?id=about * FAQs: http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php?id=faq ----- Best regards, -Tino -- Constantino Vázquez, Grid Technology Engineer/Researcher: http://www.dsa-research.org/tinova DSA Research Group: http://dsa-research.org Globus GridWay Metascheduler: http://www.GridWay.org OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine: http://www.OpenNebula.org