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News from the Cloud-Edge Continuum: July 2026

Welcome to our newsletter! Catch up on key updates, highlights, and upcoming events in just a few minutes.

Product

OpenNebula 7.4 “Helix” Is Here: We’re excited to introduce a completely redesigned Sunstone interface, modernizing the experience for OpenNebula administrators and users and laying the foundation for what’s next. The release also brings new automation and AI capabilities, including OneSwap for bulk VMware and Windows migrations, OneSlurm with native NVIDIA GPU support, and OneMetal for automated Bare Metal-as-a-Service. Read the detailed blog.

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Elastic Capacity for AI Factories: OpenNebula’s OneKS provides simple, powerful Kubernetes cluster provisioning, while Elastic Capacity enables Slurm and Kubernetes clusters to dynamically share AI Factory infrastructure and scale resources on demand for AI workloads. 

Axelera AI Accelerators as a Service: OpenNebula expands AI Factory capabilities with support for Axelera AI accelerators, enabling organizations to deliver GPU-like AI acceleration as a service while improving resource flexibility and infrastructure efficiency.

NVIDIA NICo Integration: OpenNebula integrates with NVIDIA Infrastructure Controller (NICo) to automate Bare Metal-as-a-Service, simplifying the deployment and management of AI infrastructure and accelerating the provisioning of GPU-powered resources.

Experiences

Building Sovereign AI Infrastructure: Discover why software sovereignty is a critical requirement for AI Factories, Gigafactories, and Neoclouds, and how OpenNebula helps organizations build secure, vendor-independent AI infrastructure while maintaining full control over their software stack and strategic autonomy.

OpenNebula Reviews on Gartner

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Partnerships

OpenNebula and Waldur have joined forces to deliver self-service cloud services across federated AI Factories and Gigafactories. The integration enables organizations to provision and manage cloud and AI resources through a unified, vendor-neutral platform, simplifying AI infrastructure operations at scale.

Additionally, OpenNebula and Axelera AI are working together to bring Axelera AI accelerators to OpenNebula AI Factories, enabling organizations to deploy and manage AI acceleration as a service with greater flexibility and efficiency.

Webinars, TechDays and Academy

Webinars and Office Hours

“Creating Custom Images with OneApps”—discuss how to use the OneApps repository to build and maintain your own images and explore real-world examples of custom image creation.

“Enhanced VM Compatibility in OpenNebula”—dive into OpenNebula’s EVC and see how it supports seamless VM migration across heterogeneous hosts.

“A First Look at the New Sunstone GUI in OpenNebula 7.4”—look into the major redesign of OpenNebula’s Sunstone GUI—rebuilt on a unified design system, with clearer navigation, more consistent interaction patterns, and workflows reworked around how teams actually manage cloud infrastructure at scale. 

OpenNebula Academy

Take your OpenNebula expertise further with our new Practitioner course, designed to provide hands-on learning and practical skills for working with OpenNebula environments. Explore the new course and discover more hands-on training opportunities in the OpenNebula Academy page.

Screencasts 

New additions to our Screencasts hub include a look at how OpenNebula enables Slurm and Kubernetes clusters to dynamically share AI Factory infrastructure, deploy Axelera AI Accelerators as a Service in sovereign AI Factories, and deliver Bare Metal-as-a-Service through NVIDIA NICo.  Explore the latest demos here

Events

Our events calendar is taking a short summer pause, but we’re already planning what’s next. We’ll be back after the break with new opportunities to connect.

Knowledge Base Articles 

Exclusive resources and guides for OpenNebula subscribers. 

VM HA Fencing Examples by Hardware Vendor: this article provides practical examples for configuring VM high-availability fencing in OpenNebula across major hardware vendors, including Dell, HPE, IBM, Supermicro, Huawei, Hitachi, and Fujitsu. Learn how to implement vendor-specific fencing mechanisms to ensure reliable failover and protect shared-storage virtual machines.

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Fernanda Milla de Leon

Communications Specialist at OpenNebula Systems

Aug 3, 2026

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