Citrix Brings The Power of True Amazon-Style Clouds

This service is a key component of the Citrix cloud computing portfolio, providing clients 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.

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 just as Datapipe, Edmunds.com, IDC Frontier, Nokia Innovation and Zynga. CloudStack is designed to ensure organizations can build production cloud environments on a platform designed for economics, elasticity and scale.New capabilities in CloudStack 3 focus on openness, flexibility and completeness and include: Cloud-Optimized Virtualization Platform, Network-as-a-Service Integration, Built-In Network Services Catalog, Brilliantly Simple User Interface and OpenStack Swift Integration

Sameer Dholakia, group vice president and GM, Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix said that "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 clients gain access to an unequalled set of cloud virtualization, orchestration and networking solutions that are not only best in class individually and optimized to run collectively, nevertheless also designed to work with the hardware, software and management products clients already have deployed."