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Technology

Hope you all had a nice summer break and got ready for the many novelties that we’ll be announcing in September! In August, while probably most of you were on holidays, our Engineering Team has been working very hard on the upcoming OpenNebula 6.2, which we are planning to launch very soon ⏱️ And stay tuned for new EE Maintenance and CE Patch releases for OpenNebula 6.0 “Mutara”, they are also on their way!

Community

This month we’ve been thinking about how to better support those Cloud Service Providers planning to adopt OpenNebula as their Cloud Management Platform. If that’s your case, here you have, for starters, a summary of the main features in OpenNebula that can help you take your CSP business to the next level 🚀 Many of you will be happy to hear that we are working on a new module for the popular billing platform WHMCS, that we’ll announce very soon!

Outreach

August is normally a quiet month in terms of events, so that’s why we’ve used these weeks to prepare the really amazing presentations that we’ll be delivering in September at, among others, DCD España 2021 and the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit. Time to sign up!

And speaking of events… remember that the 9th edition of our OpenNebulaConf has been rescheduled and will finally be taking place on March 24-25, 2022, in Brussels (Belgium) 😉

Food for thought

One of the good things about the Tech sector is that we never stop! So, if this year you’ve decided to take a proper (and I’m sure well-deserved) break and now you are feeling you might have missed something important, worry not, because here you have some interesting readings for you to quickly catch up. Enjoy! 🤓

The Many Other High Costs Cloud Users Pay, by Timothy Prickett Morgan (June 25, 2021)

Do as the hyperscalers do, not as they tell you. Control your infrastructure, control your costs, control your code, control your destiny. Or someone else will control them for you. And you will pay. Good heavens, how you will pay.

Mastery of technology is central to the ‘new geopolitical order’, Breton says, by Luca Bertuzzi (July 27, 2021)

The COVID-19 crisis has exposed Europe’s strategic vulnerabilities and underscored the need for the European Union to foster its own industrial policy and aim for technological sovereignty in “the new geopolitical order”, the EU’s Commissioner for the internal market, Thierry Breton, has stressed.

Why Is Cloud Migration Reversing From Public To On-Premises Private Clouds?, by Peter Bendor-Samuel (Aug 10, 2021)

Increasingly this year, we see many companies that aggressively migrated their work from on-premises clouds looking to move work back to on-premises and private clouds.

‘Spreading the Risk’ Using Multicloud, by David Linthicum (Aug 17, 2021)

Multicloud gives you the choice to find best-of-breed technologies among three to five public cloud providers versus a single one. More options lead to reduced systemic risk as well.

6 Reasons Why Your Business Should Be Using a Private Cloud, by Roberto Liccardo (Aug 17, 2021)

You should be able to see that a private cloud storage solution is the most cost-effective, efficient and secure way of keeping the data that you need for your business to run smoothly.

PS: Take care of yourselves and of those around you. All our support to those who are fighting the pandemic on the front lines! 💪