Today at Cloud Connect 2012, Citrix announced the general
availability of Citrix CloudStack™ 3, the first release of the
market leading open source cloud platform under the Citrix brand.
CloudStack is already the world’s most successful platform for
public clouds, powering over $1B in revenue for more than 85 large
scale production clouds, including some of the biggest brands in
the industry. With the new CloudStack 3 release, Citrix brings the
power of true Amazon-style clouds to customers of all sizes. For
the first time, enterprise customers who want to build clouds the
way the world’s most successful clouds are built, can quickly and
easily transform virtualized datacenter resources into automated,
elastic, self-service clouds.
Citrix CloudStack is a key component of the Citrix cloud
computing portfolio, providing customers with solutions that make
it easy to Build new clouds, Connect to existing
cloud services, and Deliver any cloud with the best
security, performance and reliability. The Cloud Era is built on a
completely different set of assumptions than past generations of IT
– in fact, many of the exceptions from the PC Era now represent the
norm in the Cloud Era. This is forcing enterprise IT organizations
to reevaluate IT strategies, causing them to search for lower
costs, greater capacity and improved agility. The Citrix cloud
portfolio is designed to help customers accelerate this Cloud Era
innovation by making inexpensive compute power accessible to
anyone, allowing people to work from anywhere any device, and
enhancing business agility.
Since its introduction, CloudStack has rapidly become the
leading commercial open source platform for building, managing and
delivering highly scalable infrastructure-as-a-service clouds for a
wide range of customers such as Datapipe, Edmunds.com, IDC
Frontier, Nokia Research and Zynga. CloudStack is designed to
ensure organizations can build production cloud environments on a
platform designed for economics, elasticity and scale. It is not a
traditional enterprise server virtualization platform with
cloud-like management layers on top. Rather, 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 most
innovative clouds are built – simple, automated, elastic, scalable
and efficient. New capabilities in CloudStack 3 focus on openness,
flexibility and completeness and include:
- Cloud-Optimized Virtualization
Platform: While maintaining a strong commitment to being
hypervisor agnostic with support for leading platforms such as KVM,
OVM, vSphere and Xen®, CloudStack 3 includes a cloud-optimized
version of Citrix XenServer® 6 as a core integrated feature. With
four of the top five world’s largest public clouds in production
(Amazon, Rackspace, GoGrid, Softlayer) leveraging XenServer® or
Xen® as the virtualization platform of choice, this unification
brings unparalleled new levels of scale, manageability, security,
multi-tenancy, and virtual switching integration that is currently
unavailable in traditional enterprise virtualization solutions from
other leading vendors.
- Network-as-a-Service
Integration: As Networking-as-a-Service (NaaS) becomes a key
differentiator for providers looking to deliver advanced enterprise
solutions in the cloud, CloudStack 3 now provides tight integration
with Citrix NetScaler®, delivering a fast, secure, reliable cloud
experience for an estimated 75% of all internet users each day.
CloudStack supports NetScaler SDX™ and VPX™ appliances, and makes
it easy to extend network level integration to products like Citrix
CloudBridge™ and Citrix CloudGateway™. This brings virtual
networking to a new level, ensuring increased security, performance
and connectivity between public and private clouds that are
delivered as integrated services within the platform.
- Built-In Network Services
Catalog: In addition to NetScaler integration, CloudStack
continues to build upon its rich and flexible network offerings by
enabling service providers to upsell network services through the
creation of custom catalogs of network service options. This
capability, a first among cloud platform providers, enables cloud
administrators to follow a cloud implementation model that best
fits their environment and workloads.
- Brilliantly Simple User
Interface: Citrix has long been known for its focus on
delivering beautifully simple, consumer-like experiences for end
users. The new CloudStack 3 release reflects this focus with a
brilliantly simple out-of-the-box user experience that enables even
the most novice cloud user to quickly build, launch and manage
their own workloads on the cloud. The combination of self-service
administration, coupled with advanced orchestration and automation,
enables new IT services to be delivered in minutes, instead of
weeks.
- OpenStack Swift Integration:
CloudStack 3 new supports Swift, the OpenStack object-storage
technology for creating redundant, scalable object storage using
clusters of standardized servers to store petabytes of accessible
data.
Citrix Ready for the Cloud – Building the World’s Largest
Cloud Computing Ecosystem
Citrix is also unveiling a Citrix Cloud Community Program, which
introduces over 2,200 products and services that are
Citrix Ready® verified to work with Citrix cloud
solutions. The program showcases hundreds of leading technology
companies and service providers who are partnering with Citrix to
build the largest cloud computing ecosystem in the industry. For
more information, please visit the community page.
CloudStack.org – The Open Source Cloud Computing User
Community
Since the acquisition of Cloud.com by Citrix in 2011, the
CloudStack.org open source community has experienced a 4x growth in
user engagement, with more than 25,000 cloud builders around the
world now signed up as active members of the CloudStack.org
community. Within the past year, the open source CloudStack product
has been downloaded over 60k times and is currently averaging a 5x
increase in monthly downloads. For more information, please visit:
http://www.cloudstack.org
Citrix at Cloud Connect 2012
Attendees at Cloud Connect 2012 will have the opportunity during
the keynotes to hear from key Citrix cloud platform executives such
as Sameer Dholakia, group vice president and general manager, and
Peder Ulander, vice president of product marketing, as well as a
CloudStack customers such as Datapipe, Edmunds.com, Nokia and
Zynga. These customers will give a detailed account of how they
were able to leverage Citrix cloud technologies to transform the
way they are managing, delivering and consuming IT services via the
cloud. Check out this blog from Citrix vice president of corporate
marketing, Kim DeCarlis, for a full list of Citrix events at Cloud
Connect.
Product Availability
CloudStack 3 beta is available today for download here. A full
production version will be available this quarter.
Quotes
Sameer Dholakia, group vice president and GM, Cloud Platforms
Group, Citrix
"Built correctly, cloud computing delivers higher efficiency,
limitless scale and faster deployment of new services to the
end-user, thereby changing the economics of the data center by
shifting the delivery of IT resources to an on-demand model. With
tight integration with the Citrix cloud portfolio, our customers
gain access to an unparalleled set of cloud virtualization,
orchestration and networking solutions that are not only best in
class individually and optimized to run collectively, but also
designed to work with the hardware, software and management
products customers already have deployed."
Ed Laczynski, vice president, Cloud Strategy and
Architecture, Datapipe
"CloudStack has provided our customers a ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of
tools - including rapid deployment, high performance, a robust API,
and programmability - to create unique clouds without sacrificing
compatibility. With the release of CloudStack 3 and the continued
dedication to an open platform and hypervisor neutrality, as well
as a track record of success in actual production cloud
deployments, Citrix continues to help us achieve our vision of
being the world’s leading mission critical IT services
provider."
Emil Ndreu, associate director, System Engineering, Edmunds,
Inc.
“Edmunds.com is a very innovative environment, and needed an
elastic, stable infrastructure that would give
us a simple and rapid way to update our products to serve
the millions of car shoppers who use our site. Citrix
CloudStack has been a great partner for us, infusing efficiency
into our process so that we can quickly generate award-winning
site tools and highly rated mobile apps nearly as soon as we
come up with them.”
George Reese, CTO, enStratus
“We are excited around the investment Citrix is making around
extending its position in the cloud with the launch of CloudStack
3. Their focus on advancing the platform while expanding its
partner ecosystem and delivering programs that accelerate the
adoption of this leading cloud platform by the enterprise. The
combination of enStratus and CloudStack 3 gives IT
organizations and service providers the tools they need to leverage
the self-service and automation capabilities of cloud computing
with the controls necessary for the enterprise.”
Chris Sharp, general manager, Content and Cloud,
Equinix
“Today’s businesses have a strong interest in architecting their
cloud infrastructure based on the models used by the most
sophisticated cloud providers in the world. This approach enables
them to achieve higher performance, limitless scale and faster
deployment of new cloud services to their end-users. Citrix and
Equinix have collaborated to launch some of the world's most
successful cloud deployments for both enterprises and service
providers. CloudStack 3 offers our customers the opportunity
to achieve unparalleled scale, performance and connectivity
between public and private clouds, by leveraging the integrated
offering deployed globally across Platform Equinix.”
Eirikur Hrafnsson, founder and CEO, GreenQloud
“As a pioneer in the green cloud computing space it only made
sense for us to select CloudStack, a leader in the free and open
source software movement for cloud computing. We tried several IaaS
solutions while we developed our strategy, but it was the
simplicity and quick time-to-market that CloudStack could deliver
that attracted us to Citrix. Our visions for the public cloud
aligned nicely, and coupled with the performance, reliability and
security capabilities of CloudStack made our decision extremely
easy.”
Ichiro Nakayama, Director of Business Development, IDC
Frontier
“The enhancements in CloudStack 3, as well as the extensive
ecosystem Citrix provides, will not only enable further
enforcements to our public cloud services, but provide a strong
opportunity for our business customers to shift to the next level
in leveraging hybrid cloud environments.”
Bailey Caldwell, vice president, Business Development,
RightScale
“RightScale and CloudStack have been integrated since 2010 and
jointly run many of the world’s largest production cloud
deployments. The investment that Citrix is making in CloudStack
will further expand this industry leading solution. The combination
of RightScale with CloudStack 3 brings enterprises and service
providers the RightScale cloud management platform which
dramatically reduces the complexity of managing public and private
cloud infrastructure so it’s faster and more productive for IT
organizations and their end users.”
Related Links:
- Video: Building a Cloud Business with
Citrix
- Expert Blog: Connecting to the
Cloud
- Expert Blogs on CloudStack 3 from
Citrix partners:
- enStratus
- Opscode
- Puppet Labs
- RightScale
- Announcement: New Citrix CloudPortal
Turns Clouds into Profitable Businesses
- Announcement: Citrix CloudGateway
Delivers End User Computing for the Cloud Era
- Announcement: Citrix NetScaler
CloudConnectors Extend Network Fabric to “Last Mile” Cloud
Services
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About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the company transforming
how people, businesses and IT work and collaborate in the cloud
era. With market-leading cloud, collaboration, networking and
virtualization technologies, Citrix powers mobile workstyles and
cloud services, making complex enterprise IT simpler and more
accessible for 250,000 enterprises. Citrix touches 75 percent
of Internet users each day and partners with more than 10,000
companies in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2011 was $2.21
billion. Learn more at www.citrix.com.
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