The lab set-up is intended to allow students to provision virtual resources across multiple technologies without pulling in university IT staff to help.
"As well as managing the laboratory environment, Abiquo gives our students practical knowledge in the use of advanced cloud technology, broadening their outlook on the latest developments in the IT market, and allowing them to gain a competitive advantage in the labor market both in Lithuania and abroad," said Algimantas Juozapavičius, founder of the Digital Science and Computing Center. The professor, whose research area is computing infrastructure, said the lab chose Abiquo, in particular, because it allows the user to manage virtualization platforms from multiple vendors simultaneously through a single console.
Abiquo's software can be used to build and manage private, public, and hybrid clouds running hypervisors from VMware, Microsoft, Citrix Systems, Oracle VirtualBox, Xen, and KVM.
