Results for: OpenCloud - A Platform for Innovation
VMware customers – here’s a real cloud for you
I hear from almost every Enterprise and service provider that vCloud is not what they want. Why? A significant concern is that it locks you into a single vendor cloud model that is utterly undifferentiated yet appallingly expensive, nickel and dime-ing you on a per-VM basis for every possible feature. Project Redwood - a massive undertaking from my friend the Sheriff ...
When “Open” Met “Open” – OpenCloud, OpenStack, and Xen Cloud Platform
Today, Xen.org announced the availability of Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 1.0.First, let me congratulate the open source Xen community, including all of the contributors to Xen and XCP (not just at Citrix, but representing dozens of organizations) for attaining this milestone. An enterprise- and provider-ready platform for cloud deployment, XCP defines a new baseline for innovation and collaborative development.While XCP was originally derived from ...
Can They Match This?
It's been a long time in the making, and the announcement is perhaps predictably short on detail. But it's fantastic to be able to publicly comment for the first time on our partnership with Amazon.Everyone knows that Amazon (AWS) operates the largest IaaS cloud. With a customer list that reads like the who's who of web brands, AWS knows more about ...
The Cloud is Open – See How It Stacks Up
One of the most exciting things I'm looking forward to in the Citrix booth (#1219) at VMworld this week in San Francisco is the demonstration of OpenStack integrated cloud management and orchestration on XenServer, using XenCenter as the console.OpenStack is open source cloud computing management and orchestration software. It enables cloud providers and enterprises to build highly scalable, easily deployable cloud infrastructures. It includes ...
OpenCloud – A Platform for Innovation
Open means a lot to me. I was one of the lucky kids that caught the cusp of the open source explosion in the early 90s. Ah the memories of spending nights porting source code from SunOS to Linux. And really, you cant appreciate the miracle of modern installers until you've toasted a monitor trying to manually configure X-Windows on Linux 0.93. Yeah, I knew ...