Category Archives: Citrix Systems

Citrix Continues To Invest In OpenStack, For XenServer

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

A Citrix blog post by senior software engineer John Garbutt points out that Citrix has far from walked away from OpenStack. According to Garbutt’s post, Citrix still has two dedicated resources working on OpenStack and is looking for a third. … Continue reading →

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NTT and Verio Select CloudStack For Commercial IaaS Public Cloud Offering

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

NTT Communications Corporation and U.S.-based Verio, wholly owned subsidiaries of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Communications, today announced their selection of Citrix’s CloudStack IaaS platform as a key component of its public cloud service, CloudN. CloudN integrates the robust network … Continue reading →

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Citrix Turns CloudStack Away From OpenStack To Apache Software Foundation

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

Today, Citrix revealed plans to open-source its CloudStack IaaS solution to the Apache Software Foundation under an Apache 2.0 license. Previously, Citrix had intended to integrate OpenStack with CloudStack in the form of an offering known as Project Olympus, which … Continue reading →

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Citrix Announces General Availability Of Citrix CloudStack 3 For Public and Private IaaS Clouds

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

At CloudConnect on Monday, Citrix unveiled the general availability of Citrix CloudStack 3, a platform developed for public clouds that, in this version, Citrix is making available to small, medium-size and large organizations alike. Enterprises seeking to deploy private clouds … Continue reading →

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Cloud Computing 2011: The Year in Review

Posted on December 18, 2011 by

Whereas Time magazine selected “The Protester” as the Person of the Year, the award for Technology of the Year surely goes to Cloud Computing. 2011 marked the year that cloud computing emerged with force and gravitas onto the enterprise landscape. … Continue reading →

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Citrix Systems Boosts OpenStack With Cloud.com Acquisition

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

On July 12, Citrix Systems announced its acquisition of Cloud.com, the open source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform that enables enterprises to create private or public cloud environments. Although the terms of the acquisition were not widely … Continue reading →

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OpenStack’s Fortunes Continue to Soar with Citrix System’s Project Olympus

Posted on June 5, 2011 by

Citrix System’s May 25 announcement that it intends to use OpenStack, the open source cloud computing infrastructure, as the basis for a new product called Project Olympus underscores how the open source tide is steadily shifting OpenStack’s way. Project Olympus … Continue reading →

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