[one-users] OpenNebula 1.4 Beta 1 codename Hourglass out for testing!

[Ruben S. Montero]

Dear Friends,

The OpenNebula team is proud to announce the availability of
OpenNebula 1.4 Beta1 Hourglass (1.3.80), this is the first preview of
next 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. The OpenNebula
team has been set now to bug fixing mode to provide a robust and
stable OpenNebula 1.4.0 to your data centers.

Please note that OpenNebula 1.4 Beta 1 is not suitable for production
settings. Its sole purpose is gathering feedback and testing new
exciting features…

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 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

The OpenNebula Team!

REFERENCES:

* Download: http://opennebula.org/cgi-bin/opennebula/download.cgi?one-1.4.0-beta1
* Release notes: http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php?id=documentation:rn-rel1.4
* Documentation: http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php?id=documentation:rel1.4
* Complete List of Changes: http://dev.opennebula.org/versions/show/4
* About OpenNebula: http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php?id=about
* FAQs: http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php?id=faq


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 Dr. Ruben Santiago Montero
 Associate Professor
 Distributed System Architecture Group (http://dsa-research.org)

 URL:    http://dsa-research.org/doku.php?id=people:ruben
 Weblog: http://blog.dsa-research.org/?author=7

 GridWay, http://www.gridway.org
 OpenNebula, http://www.opennebula.org
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