Abiquo

Abiquo is an enterprise cloud management software provider that delivers a platform for managing, automating, and governing hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure.

• Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Management Platform (MCMP) for enterprises and service providers.
• Centralized governance, policy control, and quota management across private and public clouds.
• Self-service provisioning portals for infrastructure, virtual data centers, and workloads.
• Cost management, metering, and showback/chargeback for cloud and virtualized resources.
• Integration with hypervisors and public cloud APIs to orchestrate infrastructure and services.

More About Abiquo

Abiquo provides a cloud management platform (cloud management) focused on enterprises and service providers that operate hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Its software is used to abstract and manage compute, storage, and networking resources across on-premises (on-prem) virtualization platforms and public cloud services through a unified control plane. The platform is typically deployed in data centers or managed service environments where IT teams need governance, automation, and lifecycle control for virtual infrastructure and cloud workloads.

The platform supports integration with common hypervisors (virtualization management), enabling organizations to manage private cloud resources running on virtualized infrastructure. It also connects to public cloud providers via their APIs (cloud orchestration), allowing administrators to register external cloud accounts and manage them from a centralized console. Through this approach, Abiquo enables provisioning and management of virtual data centers, virtual machines, and related services across heterogeneous environments.

Abiquo includes self-service portals (IT service management) through which internal business units or external customers of service providers can request and manage resources within assigned virtual data centers. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and policy frameworks define who can create, modify, or delete workloads and how capacity is allocated. Quotas, reservations, and allocation models help IT teams maintain control over resource consumption while delegating day-to-day operations to users.

The platform incorporates metering and accounting capabilities (cost management) to track usage of compute, storage, and network resources. These capabilities support showback and chargeback models, enabling organizations and service providers to allocate costs to departments or customers based on actual consumption. Reporting and dashboards provide visibility into capacity utilization, usage trends, and configured limits, which can aid capacity planning and budget management.

From a technical perspective, Abiquo typically interacts with underlying infrastructure using hypervisor APIs, storage plugins, and network configurations, while public cloud resources are managed through provider-specific APIs. It fits into enterprise architectures as a cloud management and orchestration layer that sits above existing virtualization platforms and cloud accounts, rather than replacing them. In marketplace or directory taxonomies, Abiquo aligns with categories such as cloud management platforms, hybrid cloud management, cloud governance, and cost management for infrastructure and services.