OpenStack is by no means the only contender in the open cloud space, however, and rival OpenNebulalast week celebrated what may well be an equally significant milestone. Specifically, it launched a fresh new version of its widely used and fully open source cloud platform.
OpenNebula 3.6, which is the twelfth stable release of the platform, offers a raft of new features including virtual machine (VM) rescheduling, new quota and accounting tools, and integration with OpenNebula’s new virtual appliance marketplace, to name just a few.