MINICASE STUDY Microsoft Azure Provides Prospective Users the

MINI-CASE STUDY Microsoft Azure Provides Prospective Users the Perfect Sandbox Location, Without the Hassle “The ability to try out Open. Nebula easily is of the utmost importance for our company. We know people will love Open. Nebula at first sight, and Azure lets us deliver the experience easier than ever. ” – Dr. Constantino Vazquez, VP of Engineering, Open. Nebula Systems § SITUATION MICROSOFT AZURE ISV: Open. Nebula Systems WEB SITE: opennebula. systems LOCATION: Madrid, Spain ORG SIZE: 20 employees MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE: Open. Nebula is a turnkey solution to build clouds and manage data center virtualization. It includes all the features needed to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering as well as public cloud services. Open. Nebula Systems develops Open. Nebula, supports its community, and provides support subscriptions, consulting, and training. Read about other Microsoft Azure ISVs Open. Nebula lets users deploy a fully featured private cloud that easily integrates into their existing infrastructure, but the configuration and design of an Open. Nebula cloud is not a trivial task – it requires time and resources. Open. Nebula knew giving customers the ability to try out its solution before fully committing was crucial to its adoption, but it needed the right platform to deliver that experience. § SOLUTION Open. Nebula chose Microsoft Azure, which placed it in the Azure Marketplace as Open. Nebula Sandbox, an easy way to try out Open. Nebula’s interface and features without having to install and configure the software. Azure’s provisioning interface provides the ability to create Linux users on demand as well as a public networking interface. Open. Nebula also takes advantage of Azure’s ability to scale VMs using different storage tiers and VM types. Azure makes access to the Open. Nebula Sunstone GUI a breeze. § BENEFITS Microsoft Azure vastly improved the user experience of trying out Open. Nebula compared with deployments on other public clouds. Users were able to utilize Microsoft Azure resources alone to try Open. Nebula while still maintaining their hybrid cloud technology.