Nimbula
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- Chris Pinkham
- Willem Van Biljon
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| Company type | Privately held company |
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| Industry | Private and Public cloud computing, Internet hosting services |
| Founded | April 10, 2010 (formerly known, in stealth mode, as Benguela, late 2008) |
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| Fate | Acquired by Oracle Corporation |
| Headquarters | |
| Products | Nimbula Director |
| Website | Nimbula.com |
Nimbula was a computer software company that existed from 2008 to 2017. It developed software for the implementation of public and private cloud computing environments.[1]
The company was first incorporated as Benguela, based in Menlo Park, California with a development center in Cape Town, South Africa.[2][3] It was founded in late 2008 by Chris Pinkham and Willem Van Biljon, who had developed the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).[4] The company raised a total of $20.75 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and VMware.[5][6][7] 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.[8][9] Diane Greene and Roelof Botha became members of the board of directors at that time.[8][4] Eventually the company had its office in Mountain View, California. A public beta version of its software was announced in December 2010.[10] Nimbula Director 1.0 was released in April 2011.[11] Nimbula was Named a ‘Cool Vendor’ in Cloud Management by Gartner in April 2012.[12]
In October 2012, Nimbula joined the OpenStack Foundation.[13]
In March 2013, Nimbula was acquired by Oracle Corporation.[14]
