Leading Industry Analyst Firm Names Abiquo 2011 Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing

Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software company, today announced that Gartner has selected Abiquo as one of the “Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing, 2011.” Authored by Gartner Research Vice Presidents Milind Govekar, Cameron Haight, and Donna Scott the report highlights a small handful of vendors with innovative approaches and technologies.

“We consider Abiquo’s inclusion in the Gartner Cool Vendors report as further confirmation that our vision of cloud computing is resonating with customers and the top minds in cloud,” said Wendy Perilli, Abiquo vice president of global marketing. “Abiquo was strategically designed to meet the needs of today’s enterprises. Unique features like global infrastructure management, business policy-driven automation, and simultaneous support for multiple hypervisors enable enterprises to build and manage their cloud environments to suit their individual needs.”

Abiquo empowers enterprises and managed service providers to easily create and manage private, dedicated, and hybrid clouds. Resources are controlled with comprehensive business policies, ensuring security and compliance. Users access resources through a self-service portal, and virtual enterprises are managed by administrators using smart automation, freeing the IT organization to focus on more value-add activities. Abiquo is the only cloud management vendor that supports mixed workloads in a heterogeneous environment.

According to the report, “Abiquo's Enterprise Edition may appeal to users looking for hypervisor-agnostic, multitenant cloud infrastructure management with delegated administration to manage data center and hosted resources to create and manage private, public and hybrid clouds. Its Community Edition will appeal to open-source communities.”

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed and implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose. Gartner defined a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About Abiquo

Abiquo is the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software company. Designed to meet strategic objectives, rather than as a temporary tactical fix, Abiquo is built on open standards, allowing organizations of all sizes to dramatically improve business agility, mitigate risk, and reduce costs. With Abiquo, organizations can use business policy to manage an entire, globally deployed computing infrastructure, comprising unlimited physical and Cloud resources including private, public and hybrid Clouds through a “single pane of glass”. As a result, Abiquo customers are able to significantly decrease the cost and complexity of managing their virtual IT environments, while maintaining control of the physical infrastructure and increasing agility to change hypervisors as needed. For more information, visit www.abiquo.com.