In building a private cloud, Citrix chooses the OpenStack

In the near future, Citrix system plans to launch the Olympus Project--a OpenStack software for a large cloud provider to a single company's products, that is, letting cloud software build your own infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

created by Rackspace and NASA last July openstack, in fact, is an Open-source project backed by 60 of vendors, including Cisco, Ubuntu Linux Publishers Canonical and Dell,openstack is working hard to become the fact standard for the infrastructure, the service provider, and there are a lot of things behind it like the Amazon Web Service-competing cloud.com or Cirrascale,savvis,terremark and a few small cloud software vendors with no online Verizon business, in addition to it behemoths such as IBM, HP and Oracle, but surprisingly, Intel is not a creator, but a supporter.

"As a virtual software provider, we will provide an optimized version of the binding OpenStack and Citrix XenServer, which allows Citrix XenServer to split the data center into multiple," said Citrix CEO Mark Templeton. Used as an autonomous service resource pool to link to external OpenStack cloud vendors.

OpenStack's early code contributors were NASA and Rackspace, who could provide large servers and storage for independent agencies, departments, or users, and NASA's Nebula cloud-building model would be replicated by the cloud centers of many federal government agencies, When OpenStack and Citrix Hypervisor XenServer are combined, the same applies to small-scale scenarios.

"Based on OpenStack and XenServer technology, building a real cloud in your data center is no longer cloud and can now be planned," Templeton told 6,000 users at the Synergy annual user conference in San Francisco this week. The first Olympus Project software will be released later this year.

Dell will provide a OpenStack Reference Architecture implementation at the Citrix Europe Synergy Conference held in Barcelona this October.

If OpenStack becomes the fact standard of the enterprise's internal infrastructure, the service, it will likely make rackspace or other OpenStack users expand their IaaS requirements, and when they can identify each other's APIs, it is easier to transfer workloads between the clouds.

Citrix is an early supporter of OpenStack, primarily to create a standard that competes with VMware in the domain of enterprise virtualization and cloud computing software, Rackspace not only using OpenStack, but also giving it a lot of power, Rackspace also used Citrix XenServer, whose chief strategic officer, Lew Moorman, said he would continue to support OpenStack and Citrix.

Using open source code to build a private cloud in the Enterprise data Center does not add the proprietary management layer on the existing data center virtual stack, Olympus will become a sharp spear thorn to VMware's Vcloud shield.

In addition to Citrix Hpervisor, the Olympus project will also support VMware vsphere virtual machine management software and Microsoft Hyper-V, and from the press notice, Olympus will be a cross hypervisor system, But it defaults to using XenServer as its hypervisor.

Original name: Citrix taps Open Stack for Building Private clouds Author: Charles Babcock

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