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The Forecast is Cloudy with 100% Chance of Exploding Data
When we look at cloud service providers, we see lots of different uses of the term, from innovators who are defining new paradigms of scalable, elastic, pay-as-you-go Software-, Infrastructure- and Platform-as-a-Service at the one end to legacy hosting and colocation providers who have glued some cotton balls on the outside of their racks and called them "clouds." (I like to think of them as "The ...
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Bring on the March Madness – But Stop the (Network) Insanity
Depending on where you are, the calendar and the weather may not agree on whether spring (or, Down Under and in the rest of the Southern Hemisphere, autumn) is nearly here. But one thing you can rely on the calendar for is the arrival of March Madness, or as it's officially known, the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. With 68 teams in the running ...
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Looking Ahead in Networking – Some Unconventional “Conventional Wisdom”
The blogger's version of a new gym membership is the prediction post: a predictable way to start the year. I've been a little slow "getting back on the treadmill" this year, and I'm looking at this post about what's happening in the world of networking the same way: a little late, but with a little variety. It's all about the consumer... And that ...
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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 ...
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NetScaler VPX Express Sets Your Networks (Even) Free(-er than Before!)
We learned from XenServer... It's been almost two years now since Citrix announced the availability of free XenServer. And in that time, the adoption rate has been dramatic, as has the rate at which users of free XenServer have not only moved it into production roles, but have also added premium editions to the mix in order to implement solutions for high availability, resource balancing, advanced ...
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And the Cloud Turns Again…
On Saturday, I blogged about the Verizon-Terremark acquisition and the beginnings of the consolidation trend in telecommunications and cloud computing, as a proof point of the ready-for-prime-time transition of cloud computing. I closed with the thought that: "As with the cloud itself, this is only the beginning." However, I figured I'd probably wait more than three or four days till the next salvo. Silly me. Late yesterday, Time ...
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As the Clouds Turn
In case you haven't seen the news, Verizon has announced it will acquire cloud service provider Terremark. One sure sign that a technology is making the leap from bleeding-edge early adopters to the mainstream of the marketplace is exactly this sort of consolidation. This is the beginning of that moment, when the major players in the broader telco marketplace determine that the best way for them ...
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It’s (Open) Cloud-y in the Southern Hemisphere Too
Through this year, we announced Citrix OpenCloud Solutions, then the OpenCloud Platform, and most recently, OpenCloud Access and OpenCloud Bridge. Our approach to building cloud infrastructure and enabling service providers to offer enterprises differentiated solutions that incorporate the providers' expertise and best practices have struck a chord for many providers. We've mainly discussed the experiences and solutions offered by US-based companies like RackSpace, Terremark, Carpathia, and ...
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Meet vClone – The “Model T” of the Cloud
(or: "Open" - according to Goofus and Gallant) When I was a kid - and, please, no comments about riding to school on my pet dinosaur, it's difficult enough to deal with another birthday today - there was a magazine that appeared in every dentist's office, called Highlights for Children. In every issue, there was a cartoon featuring two boys, Goofus and Gallant. Where Gallant was ...
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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 ...