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The Nebula One brings together hardware with OpenStack software in a package that seeks to simplify cloud computing deployments. (Photo: Nebula)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As the tagline on his website reads, Chris Kemp is descending from space into the clouds. As former CIO of NASA Ames Research Center, Kemp has focused on the Nebula project, and transitioned into making it a new kind of computer company. This week\u00a0Nebula<\/strong> announced<\/a> the general availability of Nebula One, an enterprise cloud computer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nebula One delivers on Nebula\u2019s mission to democratize cloud computing by bringing the\u00a0simplicity, agility, and operational efficiency of the world\u2019s largest Internet companies to all enterprises\u00a0at a fraction of the cost of public cloud services,\u201d said Kemp, co-founder and CEO of Nebula.<\/p>\n

Built from the ground up to power the next generation of big data, web, and mobile applications, Nebula One is a turnkey private cloud system that provides compute, network and storage services through a simple self-service interface and popular APIs. \u00a0It uses standard servers from vendors such as HP, IBM and Dell. \u00a0At the core of the product is the Nebula Cloud Controller, a hardware appliance that turns racks of servers into a scalable on-premise infrastructure-as-service cloud system. Running a distributed enterprise cloud operating system, Nebula Cosmos, Nebula One builds on OpenStack to provide a rich self-service user experience and compatibility with Amazon Web Services and OpenStack APIs.<\/p>\n

Xerox PARC has selectedNebula to power their private cloud infrastructure. “PARC researchers can now use\u00a0and reuse the readily-available compute resources they need from the Nebula One cloud, provisioning\u00a0in minutes what once took days to manually provision or months to procure,” said Walt Johnson, Vice\u00a0President, Intelligent Systems Lab, PARC.<\/p>\n

In 2009 the NASA Nebula project<\/a> combined a 40-foot Verari (now Cirrascale) FOREST container and Cisco Unified Computing Systems. Its intent was to automatically increase the computing power and storage available to science- and data-oriented web applications as demand rises.\u00a0Fast forward a handful of years and the “next generation” Nebula One has launched, complete with a video introduction from Star Trek Next Generation<\/em> actor Patrick Stewart.<\/p>\n