First released in 2008, OpenNebula has become the only European open source technology for cloud-edge orchestration and management, supporting both virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters. OpenNebula Systems was born in 2010 in order to provide professional support to corporate users and sustain the development of the project in the long term. With more than 5,000 organizations running an OpenNebula cloud worldwide, OpenNebula Systems helps organizations from many different sectors to adopt a vendor-neutral, multi-provider approach for building their private, public, and hybrid clouds.
OpenNebula Systems is headquartered in Madrid (Spain) but became a full-remote company in 2021, hosting a growing, global team of open source enthusiasts. Apart from being a corporate member of the Linux Foundation, the CNCF, and Gaia-X, OpenNebula Systems plays a key role in shaping Europe’s next-generation edge cloud, chairing the Cloud/Edge Working Group of the “European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud” while coordinating the actions and EU-funded projects (e.g. COGNIT) launched by the SovereignEdge.EU initiative. OpenNebula Systems chairs the Industry Facilitation Group of the IPCEI Cloud.
I have developed most of my career in Spain and in the UK, both in the IT sector and in Academia. As VP of Open Source Innovation at OpenNebula Systems, I deal with strategic collaborations with public cloud/edge providers, open source initiatives, and development teams from other tech vendors. I also coordinate the COGNIT Project—a Horizon Europe action emerged from the SovereignEdgeEU initiative—while contributing to both the IPCEI-CIS and the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud, supporting the role of OpenNebula Systems as chairing company of the Cloud/Edge Working Group and co-leading the Task Force on European Open Source. I am particularly interested in the conjunction between open source, ethical innovation, and digital sovereignty.