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News from the Cloud-Edge Continuum: August 2024

August Newsletter

Anastasiia Rachkova

Communications Manager at OpenNebula Systems

Sep 3, 2024

Welcome to our monthly newsletter, where we’ll update you on our recent activities, upcoming events, new releases, and more.

Technology

While the holiday season has slowed the flow of news, our tech team has been diligently working on refining OpenNebula 6.10 “Bubble” Beta 1 based on your feedback. Here’s a first-hand message from our engineers:

📡 MESSAGE FROM THE ENGINEERING DECK
6.10 Bubble has been finally released, after a careful certification phase, ensuring that it can now shine as the reference OpenNebula LTS release for the next couple of years. A lot of novelties in this release, meant to streamline the OpenNebula experience by maintaining its focus as the leading manager for KVM-based clouds. 6.10 is now ready for production, please do not hesitate to report any wrinkles you may have identified in this final version, and we will do our best to iron them out in future maintenance releases.

Innovation

We’re excited to share that Ignacio M. Llorente, CEO of OpenNebula Systems, has been re-elected as Chair of the Cloud-Edge Working Group of the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud. Our commitment to supporting the industry remains strong as we work to demonstrate how open source cloud and edge technologies can help Europe regain its global leadership and digital sovereignty in key areas such as HPC, 5G/6G, and Artificial Intelligence. Learn more about this in our latest blog post.

Community

Interested in how OpenNebula is utilized for deploying enterprise clouds in the fintech sector? MX, a global technology leader providing solutions for financial customers worldwide, has enhanced its cloud operations, showcasing the platform’s potential through real-world applications.

Thomas Bennett, Site Reliability Engineer at MX, shares, “We’ve been able to fit OpenNebula into our current technology stack without re-architecting anything major on our end,” and “to scale to tens of millions of end users on top of our OpenNebula platform.”

Discover MX’s success story in the video below:

The MX Success Story

Outreach

As we move from a quiet August to a busy September, we encourage you to mark your calendars and join us online or in person at the upcoming events:

1. September 10, online—Digital Roundtable “Stars and Stripes on the European Cloud?” featuring Ignacio M. Llorente, CEO of OpenNebula Systems, alongside other C-level executives in the European cloud industry, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of cloud providers in Europe.  

2. September 16-18, Vienna—Open Source Summit Europe 2024

  • Alberto P. Martí, VP of Open Source Innovation at OpenNebula Systems, will discuss how IPCEI-CIS will redefine open source in the EU and participate in a panel on the future of public sector open source collaboration
  • Francisco Picolini, Open Source Community Manager at OpenNebula Systems, will explore supporting confidential computing across Europe’s cloud-edge continuum at the Confidential Computing Mini Summit.
  • Juan Carlos Garcia, Principal Technology Advisor at OpenNebula Systems, and Madalin Neag, Senior 5G Edge Product Manager at OpenNebula Systems, will actively participate in the Sylva Mini Summit

3. September 19, online—TelecomTV’s Cloud Native Telco Summit featuring Juan Carlos Garcia, Principal Technology Advisor at OpenNebula Systems, in a panel discussion on the growth of cloud-native technologies and their impact on the telco industry.

4. September 19, Vienna—DevOps Roundtable. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain in-depth insights into the latest developments and best practices in DevOps, and meet Michael Abdou, Principal Account and Customer Success Manager at OpenNebula Systems, and Jim Freeman, Senior Solutions Architect at OpenNebula Systems.

5. September 19-20, Brussels—NexusForum2024 Summit, where Alberto P. Martí, VP of Open Source Innovation at OpenNebula Systems, will participate in the first public presentation of the IPCEI-CIS project.

6. September 24, live streaming from Brussels, the European Parliament—Discussion “Toward European Digital Independence: Building the Euro Stack”, with Ignacio M. Llorente, CEO of OpenNebula Systems, sharing updates from the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud and the IPCEI-CIS project on building a strategic technology and investment roadmap and a sovereign software stack for cloud-edge.

Knowledge Base Articles

Exclusive Content for OpenNebula Subscribers

Unlock expert insights, solutions to common questions, and best practices for deploying and operating your OpenNebula cloud. Our team delves into key issues that matter most to our customers.

Explore our latest Knowledge Base articles, designed in a convenient how-to format—perfect for a deep dive if you haven’t seen them yet:

CentOS Linux 7 reached its end of life on June 30, 2024, and packages for the latest OpenNebula releases are no longer available for that OS. However, there are several options to continue enjoying the latest OpenNebula features and fixes while keeping your OS up to date with security patches. One option is to upgrade your OS to AlmaLinux 9 and OpenNebula to the latest stable release, which this article covers.

Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions are widely used in cloud deployments. OpenNebula supports LUN devices exposed by SAN storage solutions through the LVM datastore drive. This article provides a detailed explanation of the configuration process for using SAN-based datastores in OpenNebula.

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