Today at Citrix
Synergy™, the conference where mobile workstyles and cloud services
meet, Citrix unveiled its strategy to help customers of all sizes
deliver business-ready cloud services. With the advent of the Cloud Era,
companies everywhere are looking for effective strategies to harness the
benefits of cloud computing, without disrupting their current business
models. Today’s announcements give customers a simple, pragmatic “Path
to the Cloud,” making it easier for them to “build” new clouds, “bridge”
to third-party clouds, “deliver” cloud services with the best
performance, reliability and security, and “transform” existing Windows
desktops and apps into true, cloud-like services.
Build New Clouds
The first component of the Citrix “Path to the Cloud” strategy is
focused on making it easy for customers of any size to create true,
Amazon-style clouds. To accelerate the broad adoption of open,
interoperable cloud computing, Citrix has focused its cloud platform
strategy on the CloudStack™ platform, now part of the Apache Software
Foundation, home of the world’s most successful open source projects.
Apache CloudStack is a powerful, proven, hypervisor-agnostic platform
that helps customers of all sizes build true Amazon-style clouds. It
boasts more than 30,000 active community members, thousands of certified
apps, and hundreds of production clouds, collectively generating more
than $1 billion in cloud revenue from some of the biggest brands in the
industry. Since CloudStack was accepted into the Apache Software
Foundation Incubator
Program, 60 industry partners have announced support for the
platform, with customers standing up over 100 new clouds a month on
CloudStack.
To bring the power of Apache CloudStack to its extensive enterprise and
service provider customer base, Citrix today unveiled Citrix
CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack. Citrix CloudPlatform is
now a key component of the Citrix cloud computing portfolio, providing
customers with a hyper-agnostic solution that make it easy to build new
clouds, connect to existing cloud services, and deliver unparalleled
cloud services with the best security, performance and reliability.
Bridge to Third-Party Clouds
The second element of the Citrix “Path to the Cloud” strategy is focused
on making it easy for enterprises to connect their datacenters and
private clouds to external, third-party cloud services. The centerpiece
of the Citrix strategy in this area is Citrix CloudBridge™, an
innovative solution that sits at the “back door” of corporate
datacenters, giving them a secure, transparent, high-performance
connection to any third-party cloud. This approach allows customers to
tap into the elastic, low-cost capacity of public clouds as part of
their overall cloud services strategy.
Today, Citrix announced CloudBridge
2, a new upgrade that makes connecting to third-party clouds even
easier. The new release adds a self-service catalog of popular clouds
that are pre-configured to connect to CloudBridge on the enterprise
side, along with a new “one-click” provisioning capability that makes it
far easier to connect to external clouds for the first time. Customers
can also add new clouds to the CloudBridge service catalog as needed.
Deliver Cloud Services to Any Device
Regardless of whether cloud services run in the corporate datacenter, or
are delivered from a third party provider, delivering those services to
end users with the best performance, reliability, and security is
essential. This critical step, which requires a robust cloud networking
platform, is the third pillar of the Citrix “Path to the Cloud” strategy.
The centerpiece of the Citrix strategy in this area is Citrix
NetScaler®. The recently released NetScaler
10 broke new ground in cloud networking with its innovative
TriScale™ technology that brought the elasticity, simplicity and
expandability of the cloud to enterprise and carrier networks alike.
Using the new TriScale technology, NetScaler helps businesses of any
size scale their networks “up, in and out” with ease, just like the
world’s largest public clouds. This revolutionary new technology
elevates NetScaler beyond traditional service and application delivery
controllers, creating the industry’s most advanced cloud networking
platform.
Citrix today also announced a tech preview of NetScaler
10 for Amazon Web Services. Delivering all the power of NetScaler
available as an Amazon cloud service makes it easy for enterprise
customers to spin up new instances of NetScaler in seconds, with no
on-premise deployment, configuration or management required.
Transform Existing Windows Apps and Desktops into Cloud Services
As enterprise customers make the transition to more cloud-centric
delivery models, one of the most significant payoffs will come from
transforming existing Windows apps and desktops into cloud-like services
that can be managed, measured and delivered alongside newer mobile, web
and SaaS apps. Citrix XenDesktop®, with its integrated XenApp®
capability, is focused on helping customers make this transition in the
most effective way possible, transforming physical Windows desktops and
apps into high-definition services that can be delivered over the
network to any device, in any location.
To expand on this strategy, Citrix today announced Project
Avalon, a powerful new solution that will bring together a wide
range of Citrix technologies to help customers deliver any Windows app
or desktop as a true cloud service. With Project Avalon, customers will
be able to rapidly deploy personalized Windows apps and desktops in a
flexible, private cloud environment across single or multiple sites, and
utilize public clouds in a “capacity on demand” fashion for business
continuity, integrating mergers and acquisitions, or supporting
offshoring projects. By leveraging the new Citrix CloudPlatform, powered
by Apache CloudStack, Avalon will also make it easy for existing Citrix
customers to adopt new features at whatever pace they like, allowing
them to “mix-and-match” different versions of Windows Server, XenDesktop
and XenApp – and span across any mix of public and private clouds.
Customers will hear more about Project Avalon, and the entire Citrix
“Path to the Cloud” strategy, throughout the week at Citrix Synergy,
including live demos, breakouts, and “Meet the Architects” sessions.
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About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) transforms how businesses and IT work
and people 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 260,000 organizations. Citrix products
touch 75 percent of Internet users each day and it 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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