Citrix is expanding its cloud offerings, with its announcement Monday of the general availability of its Citrix CloudStack 3 open-source cloud platform. When Citrix purchased Cloud.com last summer, the company acquired CloudStack, a Java-based open-source cloud management software.
CloudStack already is in use for more than 85 large production clouds, and CloudStack 3 allows the company to offer what it described as “true Amazon-style clouds to customers of all sizes,” with virtual data-center resources via self-service. Current CloudStack customers include Datapipe, Edmunds.com, IDC Frontier, Nokia Research and Zynga.
‘Open, Multi-Visor Platform’
Citrix said CloudStack was not a traditional enterprise service virtualization platform, with cloud-like management layers added on top. Instead, the company said, it was designed from the bottom up as an “open, multi-hypervisor platform” to help its customers use both public and private clouds in efficient and automated ways.
Like Amazon, where clouds of varying sizes and configurations can readily be offered, CloudStack 3 is intended to help enterprise customers create new clouds, use existing clouds, and improve security and performance for a range of cloud solutions.
Citrix Group Vice President and Cloud Platforms GM Sameer Dholakia said in a statement that, using the Citrix cloud portfolio, customers can obtain “an unparalleled set of cloud virtualization, orchestration and networking solutions” that can work with the products they already have.
The new version offers a cloud-optimized version of Citrix XenServer 6 as a key integrated feature, while also supporting leading platforms, such as KVM, OVM and vSphere. Citrix said this provides new levels of scale, manageability, security, multi-tenancy and virtual switching integration that is generally unavailable from other vendors’ traditional enterprise virtualization solutions.
Building on ‘Trusted Vendor’ Status
Cloud 3 also offers integration with Citrix NetScaler SDX and VPX appliances, supports the Swift object-storage technology for redundant, scalable storage using clusters of standardized servers, and allows service…
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