Citrix Floats CloudStack 3

Citrix said CloudStack is already handling over $1 billion in revenue for more than 85 large-scale production clouds, including Zynga, IDC Frontier and Nokia Innovation.

New capabilities in CloudStack 3 include a cloud-optimized virtualization platform made out of Citrix XenServer 6; Network-as-a-Service integration; a built-in network services catalog; a reportedly simple user interface; and integration with Swift, the OpenStack object-storage research for creating redundant, scalable object storage using clusters of standardized servers to store petabytes of accessible data.

CloudStack 3 provides tight integration with Citrix NetScaler and supports NetScaler SDX and VPX appliances, making it easy to extend network-level integration to products like Citrix CloudBridge and CloudGateway. This is supposed to bring 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.

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