The latest iteration of the cloud services management software improves efficiencies and pricing models for MSPs and their SMB clients.
Cloud computing software company innovator Abiquo has released a new version of its flagship Abiquo product. Abiquo 2.0 contains major upgrades, according to the developer.
Abiquo enables MSPs to build and manage automated and governed self-service clouds. The latest iteration of the product adds such features as:
- Multi-Currency Pricing Models–Abiquo 2.0 supports an unlimited number of pricing models, each in any international currency and with any combination of individually defined resource, application, and standing charges that vary by storage tier and physical datacenter.†
- Opscode Chef Integration–Integration with Opscode Chef enables suitably permissioned users to individually customize virtual machines at deployment time.†
- User Interface in Eight Languages–Abiquo’s GUI is now localized in eight†international languages “out-of the-box,” including English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Simplified Chinese and Japanese.
- Customizable, Open-Source End User Portal— Abiquo now provides a complete portal, which leverages the Abiquo API, for self-service creation of virtual SMBs (tenants), virtual datacenters (sub-tenants), and virtual appliances (applications). It is both fully customizable and available in open source code form. † ††
- Flexible Self-Service Storage Options–Abiquo 2.0 supports the widest range of self-service storage options. Each virtual machine image volume, and each of its attached data volumes, can be self-provisioned on hypervisor datastores or as persistent block level storage in a fully managed tier model.
- Extended Self-Service Networking Capabilities— Abiquo 2.0 supports multiple pre-defined external networks, enabling IP address pools to be shared among multiple virtual datacenters.
- Jaspersoft Open Source Reporting Integration–Abiquo 2.0 includes full integration with the Jaspersoft open source business intelligence platform. † ††
- Extended Hypervisor, NetApp and Cisco UCS Support–Abiquo 2.0 adds support for VMware vSphere 5 and Citrix XenServer 6 hypervisors and adds vFiler support to the existing NetApp storage integrations. †Cisco UCS support is extended to include assignment of Service Profile templates to each blade in a UCS chassis.
