Today at Citrix Synergy™, the conference where cloud computing,
networking and virtualization meet, Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) unveiled
Citrix CloudPortal™, a new product line designed to help providers
transform general purpose cloud infrastructure into profitable
cloud businesses. The company also previewed the next upcoming
release of its flagship Citrix CloudStack™ platform, acquired
earlier this year through the acquisition of Cloud.com. To date,
more than 2,000 cloud providers around the world have chosen Citrix
as a key platform for building their cloud businesses, including 4
of the top 5 largest public clouds in production (see an
around-the-world virtual tour of real clouds in production powered
by CTXS cloud technology). Today’s news further expands the Citrix
vision for helping cloud providers of all sizes and business models
build clouds the way the world’s most successful clouds are built –
and transform them into profitable and productive businesses.
Easing Cloud Provider Challenges with Citrix
CloudPortal
As the industry transitions from the PC Era to the Cloud Era,
the cloud services market is projected to exceed $55 billion by the
end of 2014, comprised of thousands of providers of all sizes.
These providers will offer a vast array of cloud services including
business and productivity applications, gaming, consumer
collaboration services, managed desktops, data storage, business
continuity services, and infrastructure as a service. In order to
grow to cloud-scale while maintaining sufficient margins and
quality customer service, cloud providers need to make it as easy
and fast for customers to add new services, change options, add
users, and manage their accounts – on their own, at any time. Some
providers attempt to build their own customer portals, but soon
discover the complexities and costs of maintaining the platform and
integrating it with new service offerings. Ultimately, this hurts
their time to market with new services, and decreases their
flexibility as a business.
The new Citrix CloudPortal product line eases those challenges
for providers of all sizes and business models by simplifying and
automating the commerce and customer service aspects of operating a
cloud business, including on-boarding, account management, billing
and metering, customer service and service provisioning. Besides
making it easier and more cost effective for cloud providers to
grow their businesses, CloudPortal empowers cloud customers with
self-service control, reducing management costs for providers,
while improving the overall service experience for customers.
CloudPortal also adds a rich set of pre-built provider-focused
solutions for popular cloud offering, including IaaS
(Infrastructure-as-a-Service), DaaS (Desktops-as-a-Service), SaaS
(Software-as-a-Service) and WaaS (Windows-as-a-Service). By
partnering with Citrix, public and private cloud providers alike
can leverage their core competencies in areas like applications,
infrastructure, and data management to build differentiated, high
value services that can be managed from a simple online business
portal (see attached graphic of Citrix CloudPortal and how it fits
into the Citrix Cloud Platforms product line).
The new Citrix CloudPortal product line has two editions that
enable providers to automate the commerce of their clouds and
dramatically increase their admin-to-customer leverage. Both
solutions were designed in close collaboration with some of the
world’s most successful cloud providers, and are already in
production in clouds around the world. With today’s launch, Citrix
is now making both editions broadly available to all customers
worldwide:
- CloudPortal Services Manager:
CloudPortal Services Manager is an extensible solution that manages
the “finished goods” side of service delivery for cloud apps and
services. It provides out-of-the-box support for
Windows-as-a-Service clouds (powered by Citrix XenApp®), as well as
popular business applications like Exchange, Office, SharePoint,
Lync, web hosting and more. Without any IT expertise, providers can
add and change services, manage users, delegate control, and
administer their accounts from one place. Hundreds of service
providers already use the solution to provide cloud-hosted
applications to more than a quarter million users worldwide. These
service providers have used the comprehensive SDK to add over 150
custom Windows, Web and 3rd-party SaaS services to the
platform.
- CloudPortal Business Manager: A
first solution of its kind in the cloud market, CloudPortal
Business Manager is a comprehensive BSS/OSS (business support
system, operations support system) for cloud providers. It provides
powerful, easy-to-use, account and partner management, pricing and
billing, customer management, and reporting capabilities, enabling
providers to bring large scale clouds to market rapidly with all
the on-boarding and management tools they need. Designed in close
partnership with large providers, CloudPortal Business Manager
already powers large-scale infrastructure clouds around the world,
including IDC Frontier in Japan, Ninefold in Australia, and the
Tata InstaCompute Cloud in India.
Raising the Bar with Citrix CloudStack 3
Before providers can build successful businesses, they need to
ensure they are building on a platform designed for the economics,
elasticity and scale of the cloud. Citrix CloudStack is designed to
do exactly that. CloudStack is not a traditional enterprise server
virtualization platform with cloud-like management layers on top.
It was designed from the ground up as an open, multi-hypervisor
platform to help customers build public and private clouds the way
the world’s largest and most successful clouds are built – simple,
automated, elastic, scalable and efficient.
At Synergy Barcelona this week, Citrix will also preview its
upcoming Citrix CloudStack 3, the first release of the market
leading cloud platform under the Citrix brand. The new edition of
CloudStack sets a new standard across the board, helping cloud
providers get to market quickly with highly scalable, highly
reliable services designed and optimized for cloud delivery. New
capabilities include:
- Cloud-Optimized Virtualization
Platform: While maintaining a strong commitment to being
hypervisor agnostic with support for leading platforms such as
Hyper-V, KVM, OVM, vSphere and Xen®, CloudStack 3 will include a
cloud-optimized version of Citrix XenServer® 6 as a core integrated
feature. This optimized virtualization platform will bring new
levels of scale, manageability, security, multi-tenancy, and
virtual switching integration that is currently unavailable in
traditional enterprise virtualization solutions on the market.
- Differentiating with NaaS: As
Networking-as-a-Service becomes a key differentiator for providers
looking to deliver advanced enterprise solutions in the cloud,
CloudStack 3 will introduce tight integration with the Citrix
NetScaler® product line, starting with the NetScaler SDX™ and VPX™
appliances, and extending through network level integration with
solutions like Citrix CloudBridge and Citrix CloudGateway. As a
result, service providers can offer value added services around
enterprise class networking functionality into their clouds,
including global-load balancing, disaster recovery, application
security, secure remote connectivity, and network performance
optimization.
- Extended OpenStack Support:
Citrix is the second largest contributor to OpenStack, the popular
open source cloud infrastructure movement that now includes over
1,100 cloud developers, and more than 100 member companies.
CloudStack 3 will introduce support for Swift, the OpenStack
object-storage technology for creating redundant, scalable object
storage using clusters of standardized servers to store petabytes
of accessible data.
Product Availability
- CloudPortal Services Manager
will be released in mid-December 2011 through the Citrix Service
Provider (CSP) program. It is based on technology acquired from
EMS-Cortex earlier this year.
- CloudPortal Business Manager is
available today to cloud providers worldwide through the Cloud
Market Development team at Citrix.
- CloudStack 3 will be available
in Q4. More details will be announced at that time.
Quotes
Sameer Dholakia, Group Vice President and GM, Cloud Platforms
Group, Citrix
“Many of the largest and most successful clouds in the world
have chosen Citrix technology to build their cloud businesses.
While others seek to turn cloud providers into commodity suppliers,
our open approach helps enable them to highlight their unique
skills and competencies. Our new CloudPortal product line is a
perfect example of that, enabling customers to quickly and easily
transform general purpose cloud infrastructure into successful,
innovative, profitable businesses.”
Evert Pierson, Innovation Manager, Workplace and Servicedesk
Services, Atos International
“CloudPortal Services Manager has been a cornerstone of our
business model and the key to success for our service relationship
with customers. It not only eases the on-boarding process, but
helps us innovate faster and easier. We anticipate that the latest
version of the product will help us expand our service catalog,
integrate them into our offerings and ultimately evolve our
business.”
Ichiro Nakayama, Division Director of Business Development,
IDC Frontier
“CloudPortal Business Manager is a key component of the IDC
Frontier NOAH cloud offering, enabling us to deliver highly
differentiated cloud services to our customers with better quality
and efficiencies. By delivering functionality that automates the
customer on-boarding process and provides delegated account
management, CloudPortal not only allows us to operate with
cloud-like efficiency, but also exceed the challenging cloud
computing demands that our customers require us to meet.”
Related Links:
- Video: Building a Cloud Business with
Citrix
- Expert Blog: Announcing Citrix
CloudPortal – Every Cloud Needs a Front Door
- Expert Blog: Bridging the “Business
Gap” Between Your Cloud and Customers
- Expert Blog from AppSense - To the
Cloud with AppSense and Citrix
- Expert Blog: CloudStack, The Best Kept
Secret in Cloud Computing
- Announcement: Citrix Optimizes
XenServer for the Cloud Era
- Announcement: Citrix Opens Up the Cloud
for VMware Customers
- Announcement: Citrix Changes the Game
in Cloud Infrastructure with Cloud.com Acquisition
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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 250,000 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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