Citrix Systems today announced it has completed the acquisition
of Cloud.com, a market leading provider of software infrastructure
platforms for cloud providers. The company’s innovative CloudStack™
product line helps providers of all types deploy and manage simple,
cost-effective cloud services that are scalable, secure, and open
by design. This acquisition further establishes Citrix as a leader
in infrastructure for the rapidly growing cloud provider market.
The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
The transition from the PC Era to the Cloud Era is expected to
fuel a massive build out in cloud infrastructure, creating a new
market projected to exceed $11 billion by the end of 2013,
according to industry analystsi. This market will feature thousands
of providers of all shapes and sizes, offering a vast array of new
cloud services ranging from business, infrastructure and
development offerings, to consumer, mobile and gaming services.
Most of the clouds that service this market will look nothing like
traditional enterprise datacenters. They will run on radically
different platforms purpose-built for cloud computing – platforms
designed from the ground up to deliver multi-tier, multi-tenant
services in the simplest and most cost-effective way. The world’s
largest and most successful public clouds are all built this way
today.
The Cloud.com product line is not a traditional enterprise
server virtualization platform with cloud management layered on
top. It is a powerful, hypervisor-agnostic solution designed from
the ground up to help providers build clouds the way the world’s
largest and most successful public clouds are built – simple,
automated, elastic, scalable and efficient. This proven approach
has helped Cloud.com customers around the world roll out new cloud
services up to 50 times faster, at one fifth the cost of
alternative solutionsii.
With the addition of Cloud.com, Citrix now offers a complete
portfolio of virtualization, orchestration and networking solutions
purpose built for the Cloud Era – solutions that are not only among
the market leaders individually, but also designed to help
customers avoid vendor lock-in by letting them use the hardware,
software, management products and service providers of their
choice.
Citrix Commitment to Openness
A commitment to openness and interoperability has been a central
pillar for both Citrix and Cloud.com, and will accelerate further
with this acquisition. The Cloud.com product line will continue to
support leading commercial hypervisors such as Citrix XenServer®
and VMware vSphere, as well as open source hypervisors like Xen®.
Citrix intends to add support for Microsoft products like Hyper-V
and System Center to the Cloud.com product line, as well as support
a full range of “platform-as-a-service” development environments,
storage systems, servers and management software.
A key part of this commitment to openness is a full embrace of
open source as an essential element of cloud computing. In addition
to providing leadership in communities like Xen.org at the
virtualization layer, this acquisition will help Citrix further
accelerate its support of OpenStack, the popular open source cloud
infrastructure movement that now includes over 1,100 cloud
developers, and more than 80 member companies. As a founding member
of Openstack.org, Citrix is the second largest contributor to the
project and is a member of the OpenStack policy board.
Citrix product support for OpenStack was initially announced at
the recent Citrix Synergy conference under the code name “Project
Olympus.” With this acquisition, Citrix will also be extending
OpenStack support to the Cloud.com product line in an upcoming
release later this year.
Citrix Cloud Infrastructure Portfolio
With the addition of Cloud.com, the Citrix infrastructure
portfolio for cloud providers will include:
Cloud Platform Products:
- CloudStack (new) – next generation,
hypervisor-agnostic, cloud infrastructure platform.
- XenServer – secure, cloud-optimized
virtualization platform
Cloud Networking Products:
- NetScaler® Cloud Gateway – sits at the
“front door” of corporate datacenters giving IT an easy, unified
way to orchestrate the delivery of any mix of SaaS, web and Windows
apps to end users on any device.
- NetScaler Cloud Bridge – sits at the
“back door” of corporate datacenters, giving IT unlimited capacity
by seamlessly and securely extending any datacenter to any external
cloud service, regardless of hypervisor or platform.
- NetScaler SDX, MPX and VPX – powerful
networking platforms designed from the ground up to serve as a
“service delivery fabric” for virtual datacenters and clouds.
App and Desktop Products:
- XenApp™ and XenDesktop® – market
leading virtualization solutions that let cloud providers deliver
Windows apps and desktops as a service to any device.
Citrix Cloud Platforms Product Group
The addition of Cloud.com brings Citrix an incredibly talented
team that includes some of the world’s most experienced cloud
computing experts. Cloud.com CEO Sheng Liang will continue to lead
the design, architecture and technology of the CloudStack product
line, reporting to Sameer Dholakia, group vice president and
general manager of the newly-formed Cloud Platforms product group
at Citrix.
Product Availability
The Cloud.com CloudStack solution is available to cloud
providers today, with Citrix branded versions coming in a future
release.
Quotes
Mark Templeton, President and CEO, Citrix Systems,
Inc.
“As the industry moves into the Cloud Era, Citrix is committed
to leading the charge with powerful solutions that make the cloud
more open, more secure, and more personal. We are delighted to
welcome the Cloud.com team to the Citrix family to focus our
combined efforts on helping customers of all sizes make a
difference in business, and in the lives of their customers and
employees.”
Sheng Liang, CEO and Founder, Cloud.com
“Cloud.com is the platform behind many of the world’s most
innovative and successful clouds. Joining forces with Citrix will
dramatically accelerate our mission to help customers achieve all
the promise cloud computing has to offer, in a way that’s open,
secure and efficient.”
Jim Curry, GM of Cloud Builders, Rackspace
"Citrix has been a leader in the creation of OpenStack,
assembling an impressive team of developers and creating Project
Olympus to take open cloud-scale technology into the market. With
the addition of the Cloud.com team, Citrix is furthering
their commitment to OpenStack, ensuring that the OpenStack platform
and APIs are even more widely available to customers
everywhere."
Related Links:
- Blog: How To Build Purpose-Built
Clouds
- Blog: Leading Cloud Expert Christian
Reilly Joins Citrix CTO Office
- Announcement: Citrix Broadens Footprint
in Cloud Infrastructure with “Project Olympus”
- Announcement: Citrix in 2011 Leaders
Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization
- Announcement: Citrix XenServer Earns
Top Quadrant in Analyst Report
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About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of
virtual computing solutions that help people work and play from
anywhere on any device. More than 230,000 enterprises rely on
Citrix to create better ways for people, IT and business to work
through virtual meetings, desktops and datacenters. Citrix
virtualization, networking and cloud solutions deliver over 100
million corporate desktops and touch 75 percent of Internet users
each day. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in 100
countries. Annual revenue in 2010 was $1.87 billion. Learn more at
www.citrix.com.
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i IDC’s Public IT Cloud Services Forecast: New Numbers, Same
Disruptive Story, July 2010
ii Based on Cloud.com customer benchmark study, October 2010
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