Citrix launches 'Amazon-style' cloud platform

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Virtualization software maker Citrix announced CloudStack 3, the first release of its open source cloud platform. CloudStack cloud platform powers over $1B in revenue for more than 85 large scale production clouds.

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 centre 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.”

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With the new CloudStack 3 release, Citrix brings Amazon-style clouds to customers of all sizes, says the company in a release.

CloudStack is a key component of Citrix's cloud computing portfolio, helping customers to build new clouds, connect to existing cloud services, and deliver any cloud.

New capabilities in CloudStack 3 include:

Cloud-Optimized Virtualization Platform:  While supporting KVM, OVM, vSphere and Xen, CloudStack 3 includes a cloud-optimized version of Citrix XenServer 6 as a core integrated feature.

Network-as-a-Service Integration:  CloudStack 3 provides integration with Citrix NetScaler.

It supports NetScaler SDX and VPX appliances, and makes it easy to extend network level integration to products such as Citrix CloudBridge and Citrix CloudGateway. 

Built-In Network Services Catalogue: In addition to NetScaler integration, CloudStack continues to build upon its network offerings by enabling service providers to upsell network services through the creation of custom catalogues of network service options.

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 also unveiled Cloud Community Program, which introduces over 2,200 products and services that are Citrix Ready verified to work with Citrix cloud solutions.

CloudStack 3 beta is available for download.