Citrix acquires Cloud.com
July 13, 2011 —
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Citrix is purchasing Cloud.com, making it the first major acquisition in the fledgling cloud operating system space. The deal brings this infrastructure-as-a-service company under the wing of one the three major contenders in the virtualization market.
Citrix's acquisition of Cloud.com, however, isn't entirely transparent: Questions still remain as to Citrix's much-touted commitment to rival cloud operating system OpenStack.
Peder Ulander, chief marketing officer of Cloud.com, said that this acquisition is actually about bridging the gap between existing enterprise cloud-hosting needs and the future of the open-source OpenStack platform.
“We've been with OpenStack since day one," said Ulander. "The first OpenStack guest blog was written by me. There's definitely been a lot of work to collaborate on the core orchestration pieces of OpenStack. We contributed code for Microsoft Hyper-V support, and worked on the storage frameworks and networking frameworks."
Ulander went on to state that work at Cloud.com designed to bring OpenStack compatibility into its CloudStack platform has been progressing, but he indicated that the acquisition by Citrix will accelerate that work.
“As a 70-person company, the horizon to do that work is significantly farther out than what it looks like from inside Citrix," he said. "Having the OpenStack expertise Citrix has, coupled with our guys already focused on putting OpenStack pieces, like Swift, into the next version of CloudStack, those things might have been three, four, even five quarters away. Now we will be able to accelerate that and release that stuff this year."
Sameer Dholakia, vice president and general manager of the cloud division at Citrix, said that his company sees the Cloud.com purchase as a major new bet on OpenStack. “From the Citrix perspective, we do very much believe this is doubling down on OpenStack," he said.
"Citrix was a founding member of OpenStack, and we are the second largest contributor to OpenStack. One of the reasons we acquired Cloud.com is that they were uniquely embracing OpenStack, relative to other startups in their space. There are a number of capabilities in the Cloud.com portfolio that are required to run a cloud that just aren't on the road map yet for OpenStack.
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