Abiquo Takes Cloud Management Solutions To Asia’s Sky-High Cloud Market 
Abiquo is working with Japan’s ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corp. (CTC) to bring Abiquo Enterprise Edition to fill Asia’s sky-high demand for cloud and cloud management solutions. Abiquo manages physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures – including public, private and hybrid, and also manages business policies, rules and security.
Abiquo is working with Japan’s ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corp. (CTC) to bring Abiquo Enterprise Edition to fill Asia’s sky-high demand for cloud and cloud management solutions.
Abiquo manages physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures – including public, private and hybrid, and also manages business policies, rules and security.
Demand is high for cloud and cloud management solutions in Asia, particularly Japan. In 2010, the Japanese cloud computing market increased by 42% and is expected to reach $1.8 billion by 2014, according to a recent report by IDC.
Tohru Nakano, CTC executive vice-president listed Abiquo’s attractive capabilities included support for heterogeneous physical-cloud environments, all major hypervisors and globally distributed datacenters.
CTC is also planning to use Abiquo Enterprise Edition in its own datacenters to provide cloud services to enterprises in the future, he added.
“By offering a cloud platform that is hypervisor agnostic, we’re giving organizations the opportunity to choose the solution that’s best for them, and by partnering with the leading distributor in Japan, we’re cementing Abiquo and CTC as the key providers in the Japanese cloud market,” said Pete Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo, in the statement.
Inside Abiquo’s Cloud, Virtualization Management
Abiquo’s enterprise cloud management software allows organizations to manage diverse infrastructure, including existing physical resources, as well as private, public and hybrid clouds. Abiquo provides mangers a “single pane of glass” solution for business policies, regulatory policies, business rules and security.
Abiquo Enterprise edition provides the following capabilities:
- Multi-Tenancy Separate user groups by organization, division, group or department in any combination, allowing group each to have their own entity centric management view.
- Delegated Control Allows IT infrastructure staff to delegate management and monitoring of virtual machines to authorized users.
- Business, Regulatory Policy Management Enables an organization to set, edit and manage business and compliance policies from a single, centralized policy editor, and automate the allocation of virtual resources across the physical infrastructure.
- Autonomous Virtual Enterprises Provides multi-tenant “virtual enterprises” to control servers, storage and network resources. Each VE manages its own role-based user group and operates within strictly enforced resource limits. VE also allow self-service provisioning and management.
- Overcome Resource Limits Ensures that no entity can cause physical capacity of the system to be exceeded, and encourages users to release un-needed resources quickly.
- Works with VMware, Major Hypervisors Works in conjunction with VMware tools like vCenter and vSphere to manage VMs and share resources. Bi-directional event driven integration keeps all management tools synchronized. Also deeply integrates with VMware’s vMotion, DRS and HA functionality. Abiquo also supports VMware ESX and ESXi including version 4.1, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Xen Community, Virtual Box and KVM.
Abiquo is built on open standards, allowing organizations of all sizes to dramatically improve business agility, mitigate risk, and reduce costs. In February 201, Abiquo released a Community Edition for the open source community, and an Enterprise Edition aimed at commercial organizations.
