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VxLAN – The Cloud’s Stretch Goal.
With the acquisition of Cloud.com, there came not only fantastic people with amazing technology, but something much more important that the money of our competitors can’t buy – the experience of knowing what it takes to partner with the world’s biggest service providers to deliver cloud capability at massive scale. As the move from Server Virtualization 1.0 to true cloud computing gathers momentum, not only are ...
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Citrix Not Focused On Server Virtualization. That’s Absolutely Correct.
Recently, our CEO Mark Templeton, and CFO David Henshall presented the Citrix Q2 financial results on an earnings call with a number of respected analysts. As part of this, and in their usual manner, Mark and David fielded detailed Q&As, which was recorded in this transcript. Yesterday, I read a particularly insipid blog post from Eric Gray of VMware, in which he tried, very weakly, to ...
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The Identity Crisis
In the three weeks that have passed since being subsumed into the high-velocity Citrix machine, I’ve been spending a fair amount of time meeting with, and listening to, a broad range of existing and potential customers, both service provider and “enlightened” enterprise, as they work through the planning and delivery phases of their respective cloud strategies. First, let me qualify “enlightened” ...
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Bringing CloudStack and OpenStack Together
One of the most frequent questions I have been asked since the acquisition of Cloud.com by Citrix has been around the future plans for aligning the commercial CloudStack platform acquired from Cloud.com with OpenStack, the popular open source initiative supported by both Citrix and Cloud.com that has so far attracted over 1,100 like-minded cloud developers and 80 member companies. The first point to underscore is that ...
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Citrix declares war on Amazon. Excuse me??
As the sun set on the “big day” announcement of our acquisition of cloud.com, I spent a little time eagerly reading and digesting the plethora of articles and blog posts that had been written to cover the breaking news. As I expected, much of the reaction from analysts and bloggers alike was extremely positive. There were tons of articles like this one from ZDnet that showed most folks really ...
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My First Day In The Citrix CTO Office
As I am sure you all have seen by now, today marked the announcement of Citrix’ acquisition of cloud.com – heralding a newly drawn line in the sand for customers who are keen to accelerate their individual cloud deployment strategies. Despite only being a cloud.com team member for just over a week, which must be the shortest tenure at a startup in living memory, I’m genuinely ...