Citrix Systems today announced a new edition of CloudStack™,
which will feature enhanced support for both the VMware vSphere and
Oracle VM hypervisors, enabling VMware and Oracle customers to
manage their virtualized servers as a highly available, scalable
cloud computing environment. Citrix CloudStack is not just a
traditional enterprise server virtualization platform with cloud
management layered on top, it is a production-ready, free and open
source cloud infrastructure platform that helps providers of all
types deploy and manage simple, cost-effective cloud services that
are scalable, secure, and open by design. The new release is based
on the same CloudStack solution that has been used by some of the
world’s largest and most successful public clouds to roll out new
cloud services up to 50 times faster and at one-fifth the cost of
alternative solutions1. This is the first release of the product
since Citrix acquired Cloud.com in July.
Recognizing that organizations currently face a daunting task
when trying to build their own IaaS cloud environment, Citrix
CloudStack provides customers with the fastest path to the cloud by
providing the most advanced software technologies for building
highly scalable, highly reliable cloud computing environments. More
than 60 large-scale production clouds have been deployed using the
open source CloudStack, including GoDaddy, GreenQloud, KT, Nokia,
Tata Communications and Zynga.
As the industry ventures into the Cloud Era, a vast array of new
cloud services will emerge, requiring platforms that are
purpose-built for cloud computing – radically different from the
traditional enterprise datacenters of today. These platforms need
to be designed from the ground up to deliver multi-tier,
multi-tenant services in the simplest and most cost-effective way.
CloudStack addresses these challenges with a powerful,
hypervisor-agnostic solution designed to help organizations build
clouds the way the world’s largest and most successful public
clouds are built - simple, automated, elastic, scalable and
efficient. With advanced networking capabilities, high-availability
and a robust web interface, CloudStack gives users complete control
of their cloud infrastructure through a single pane of glass.
“vTax” Break
By providing a cost effective and scalable cloud platform that
works with all major enterprise virtualization technologies, Citrix
CloudStack allows users to preserve their existing virtualization
investments - whether they are based on KVM, Oracle VM, vSphere,
XenServer®, or a mix of these technologies - while enabling them to
continue to grow their virtual infrastructure. VMware users
particularly benefit when they choose to deploy Citrix CloudStack
over vCloud Director as their preferred cloud platform. By using
Citrix CloudStack, VMware customers not only break free from the
proprietary costs that VMware imposes with its platform, but they
also gain the added flexibility and control associated with
leveraging the most popular open source cloud platform in the
market. Additionally, Citrix CloudStack eases the financial impact
associated with the “vTax,” the term used by many in the cloud and
virtualization communities to refer to the latest update to the
VMware vSphere 5 licensing model that added costs to customers’
existing cloud and virtualization implementations. Since CloudStack
can support multiple hypervisors in the same cloud, VMware
customers can mix and match their virtualization technologies under
the same cloud environment and optimize their costs, as well as the
business value.
This latest release of CloudStack is a continuation of the
company’s efforts to provide VMware customers with an open source
choice when building clouds on vSphere. In March, Citrix delivered
VMware support into OpenStack and has now extended that work into
CloudStack. In addition to adding enhanced support for vSphere and
Oracle VM, the upcoming version of Citrix CloudStack will also
enable bare metal provisioning, allowing users to increase the
agility of their cloud deployment by provisioning and managing
workloads on physical servers without a hypervisor.
Product Availability
Citrix CloudStack with support for VMware vSphere and bare metal
provisioning is available today as a free download from
CloudStack.org or as a commercially supported solution from Citrix.
Oracle VM support will be available in October, followed by
Microsoft Hyper-V later in Q4. CloudStack can be deployed
on-premise or as a hosted cloud service.
Quotes
Peder Ulander, Vice President of Product Marketing, Cloud
Platforms Group, Citrix
“By enhancing availability and support for VMware vSphere and
Oracle VM, the latest release of Citrix CloudStack enables
customers to build clouds on their existing virtualization and
datacenter technologies while taking advantage of the most widely
deployed open source cloud platform today. A powerful,
hypervisor-agnostic solution, CloudStack helps customers build
clouds the way the world’s largest and most successful public
clouds are built - simple, automated, elastic, scalable and
massively efficient. And by providing advanced enterprise features
that support vSphere and OVM in a free, production-ready offering,
users are given a choice, not a surcharge, when building out their
cloud platform.”
Ichiro Nakayama, Division Director of Business Development,
IDC Frontier (IDCF), a subsidiary of Yahoo! Japan
“IDC Frontier, a subsidiary of Yahoo! Japan, is the market
leading provider of cloud services in Japan with its innovative
NOAH Cloud Services product, a fully-automated cloud management
service with an open API that is optimized specifically for the
Japanese market. We chose Citrix CloudStack based on the
comprehensiveness of the solution and its ability to help us to
quickly come to market with a highly differentiated and customized
cloud platform running on top of our VMware installation.”
Related Links:
- Expert Blog: CloudStack, The Best Kept
Secret in Cloud Computing
- Announcement: Citrix Changes the Game
in Cloud Infrastructure with Cloud.com Acquisition
- Expert Blog: OSCON 2011 - Open Source
Thriving in the Cloud
- Expert Blog: Citrix and CloudStack, a
match made in Heaven (or in the Clouds)
- Expert Blog: Bringing CloudStack and
OpenStack Together
Follow us online:
- Twitter: @Citrix, @Ulander, @Reillyusa,
@cloudstack, @mrhinkle
- Citrix on Facebook
- CloudStack.org: the free and open
source community
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 approximately 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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1 Based on Cloud.com customer benchmark study, October 2010
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