Cloud.com Upgrades to 2.2, Promotes Hybrid Cloud

Cloud.com‘s CloudStack, the open source cloud platform for public and private infrastructure-as-a-service clouds, has been upgraded to version 2.2. New in this release are better hypervisor support, advanced networking configurations, borderless scalability, streamlined administration, and – continuing a major Cloud.com trend for 2011 — hybrid cloud readiness. And apparently, that’s in addition to a hundred additional usability and functionality tweaks.

Here’s a point-by-point look at the new features in the Cloud.com CloudStack 2.2 release, with details taken from the official press release:

• Advanced Networking Configuration: By using the latest networking features like embedded software-based network management, VLAN and Direct Attach IP, administrators can get finer control over physical and virtual network integration.
• Borderless Scalability: CloudStack-powered clouds can now manage and federate infrastructure that’s geographically dispersed among different data centers. The CloudZones tool helps manage those different availability zones.
• Hypervisor Independence: The press release puts it better than I could: “CloudStack 2.2 comes with out-of-the-box support for VMware vSphere 4, Citrix XenServer 5.6 and the open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) running simultaneously in a single cloud.”
• Streamlined Administration: A new, AJAX-powered web interface makes it easier to manage even thousands of guest VMs, with role-based access delegation giving self-service flexibility.
• Hybrid Cloud Ready: Cloud.com has included the new CloudBridge tool, which enables private cloud applications to interoperate with the Amazon EC2 compute cloud and Amazon S3 storage cloud, creating a true hybrid solution. And when the OpenStack API releases soon, CloudBridge will support that, too. And Cloud.com is leveraging their existing partnership with platform-agnostic cloud management vendor RightScale to help administrators keep it all under control.

Cloud.com’s made waves in the cloud services market of late, powering no less than two major public cloud offerings and contributing to the ever-growing OpenStack project.

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