Nebula, a company started by some of the original creators of the popular open-source cloud operating system OpenStack, on Tuesday launched Nebula One, turn-key private cloud system.

The product combines compute, network and storage services using standard servers from major IT vendors like HP, IBM and Dell. It features a simple self-service interface and popular APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).

Chris Kemp, co-founder and CEO of Nebula, said the product brought simplicity, agility and operational efficiency of the large Internet companies (read Google or Amazon) to enterprises at a much lower cost than the cost of public cloud services.

Kemp is a former CTO of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). At NASA, he was one of the key individuals that collaborated with engineers from the hosting company Rackspace on the open-source OpenStack project.

NASA's first in-house private cloud system was called Nebula.

With Nebula One, the company seeks to simplify creation and deployment of cloud infrastructure. This way, enterprises can focus more on applications they need for their businesses, rather than spending time and energy on IT integration.

One of the first companies to deploy Nebula One is PARC, an R&D lab that reportedly invented the computer mouse and the graphical user interface. Walt Johnson, VP of the Intelligent Systems Lab at PARC, said, PARC researchers can now use and reuse the readily-available computer resources they need from the Nebula One cloud, provisioning in minutes what once took days to manually provision or months to procure.”

Nebula's operating system is called Cosmos. A “distributed enterprise cloud operating system,” it builds on OpenStack, adding a rich self-service user experience and compatibility with Amazon Web Services and OpenStack APIs.

The system now available for purchase, can scale from single-rack to multi-rack deployments.