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Citrix Acquires Cloud.com

Citrix announced Tuesday it has acquired Cloud.com for an undisclosed sum. Cloud.com is a leading open source cloud computing platform vendor. Its CloudStack™ IaaS cloud software platform helps cloud providers build, deploy and manage simple, cost-effective cloud services that are scalable, secure, and open by design. Acquiring Cloud.com, Citrix is strengthening it position as a leader in infrastructure for the fast growing cloud provider market.

According to an IDC study, cloud infrastructure market will exceed $11 billion by the end of 2013. This market will feature thousands of providers, offering a wide range of new cloud services including business, infrastructure and development offerings, as well as mobile and gaming services. Most of the clouds that service this market will run on platforms purpose-built for cloud computing – platforms designed from the ground up to deliver multi-tier, multi-tenant services in the simplest and most cost-effective way.

The Cloud.com product line is not a traditional enterprise server virtualization platform with cloud management layered on top. It is a powerful, hypervisor-agnostic solution designed from the ground up to help providers build clouds the way the world’s largest and most successful public clouds are built – simple, automated, elastic, scalable and efficient.

With the addition of Cloud.com, Citrix now offers a complete portfolio of virtualization, orchestration and networking solutions purpose built for the Cloud Era – solutions that are not only among the market leaders individually, but also designed to help customers avoid vendor lock-in by letting them use the hardware, software, management products and service providers of their choice.

“As the industry moves into the Cloud Era, Citrix is committed to leading the charge with powerful solutions that make the cloud more open, more secure, and more personal. We are delighted to welcome the Cloud.com team to the Citrix family to focus our combined efforts on helping customers of all sizes make a difference in business, and in the lives of their customers and employees,” President and CEO of Citrix Systems, Inc. Mark Templeton, said in a statement.

The Cloud.com CloudStack solution is available to cloud providers today, with Citrix branded versions coming in a future release.

 

 

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