Automatic installation and configuration of application environments and their secure sharing with other cloud users

Automatic execution of multi-tiered applications and their provision from a catalog and self-service portal

Deployment of a centralized catalog of cloud applications to share and distribute appliances across cloud instances

 Open

Fully open-source (not open-core) software released under the Apache license

 Adaptable

Highly customizable to fit into your data center and leverage existing IT investments

 Proven

Rigorously tested, mature, widely used, and many massive scale deployments

 Powerful

Innovative functionality for enterprise clouds and data center virtualization

 Interoperable

Choice of interfaces, from open cloud, like OCCI, to de-facto standards, like AWS

 No Lock-in

Broad infrastructure support and platform independent on VMware, KVM and Xen

 Very Light

Highly efficient, easy to install and update, with packages for the main Linux distributions

 Enterprise-ready

Single installing and updating process, and community and commercial support