Nimbula
Nimbula was a computer software company that existed from 2008 through 2013. It developed software for the implementation of public and private cloud computing environments.
History
The company was first incorporated as Benguela, based in Menlo Park, California with a development center in Cape Town, South Africa. It was founded in late 2008 by Chris Pinkham and Willem Van Biljon, who had developed the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The company raised a total of $20.75 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and VMware. Their software was designed to make it easier for service providers and enterprises to build, manage and deploy infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings similar to Amazon EC2.
The company emerged from stealth mode in June 2010 and changed its name to Nimbula.Diane Greene and Roelof Botha became members of the board of directors at that time. Eventually the company had its office in Mountain View, California. A public beta version of its software was announced in December 2010. Nimbula Director 1.0 was released in April 2011. Nimbula was Named a ‘Cool Vendor’ in Cloud Management by Gartner in April 2012.
Podcasts:
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by Lycia
Nimble
by: Lyciayou are my skin stretched soft
cover my bones
like grass on an ancient grave
moss on a forgotten stone
nimble fingers feel you feel me
eyes pushed wide open to heaven
tears from Christ fall down cover me
"the gentle salt of pious tears"
slides down my cheeks
"across my open lips tastes tongue gently"
fantastic this love
"in heaven love... angel's wings beat"
like sand beneath the sea
"muffled...flowing"
and the tiny star blinks and I missed it
"the past was stolen"
stare into vast grey skies
"pinlights dance in cold grey eyes"
the faeries playing firefly
"and you beneath me...wet grass shimmering"