February 21 News, in the recently held Cloud Connect 2012 exhibition, the company launched Citrix Cloudstack 3, is the market-leading open source cloud platform after the acquisition of the first release. At present, Cloudstack is the world's most successful public cloud platform, has helped at least 85 large-scale production cloud platform to achieve more than 1 billion dollars in operating revenue, including some of the industry's well-known brands. With the launch of the new Cloudstack 3, Jie has brought Amazon-style cloud power to users of all sizes. Enterprise users who want to emulate the world's most successful cloud platform to build cloud facilities will be able to quickly and easily turn virtual data center resources into an automated, resilient, and self service Cloud Platform for the first time.
Citrix Cloudstack is an important part of the Citrix Cloud computing product line, and its solutions help make it easier for users to build new cloud platforms, connect to existing cloud services, and deliver any cloud services in the safest, highest performance, and most reliable way. The cloud era is based on a completely different set of IT systems in the past, and many of the special cases of the PC era have now become the norm in the cloud era, forcing enterprise IT organizations to reassess their IT strategies and find new ways to reduce costs, increase capacity, and improve business agility. The Sijiyin product line is designed to help users accelerate innovation in the cloud era, allow anyone to get cheap computing power, and be able to work anywhere through any device to improve business agility.
Since its inception, Cloudstack has quickly become a leading commercial open source cloud platform for building, managing, and delivering highly scalable "infrastructure as a Service" (IaaS) cloud systems with a wide range of users, such as DataPipe, Edmunds.com, IDC Frontier, Nokia Institute and Zynga. Cloudstack is designed to ensure that it organizations are able to build productive cloud platforms on an economical, resilient and scalable platform. This is not a traditional enterprise Server virtualization platform with a cloud-like management layer attached. Instead, it is a newly designed open multi-hypervisor platform that helps users build public and private clouds using the world's most innovative cloud platform-simple, automated, resilient, scalable, and efficient. The new features of Cloudstack 3 focus on openness, flexibility, and integrity, including
Cloud-Optimized Virtualization platform: Cloudstack 3 adheres to a variety of virtual machine management programs and supports leading platforms such as KVM, OVM, vsphere, and xen®, incorporating cloud-optimized Citrix XENSERVER®6 versions as core standard features. Four (Amazon, Rackspace, Gogrid, and SoftLayer) have xenserver® or xen® as the preferred virtualization platform in the five global public cloud platforms that have been put into operation, and this high level of consistency brings unprecedented scalability, manageability, security , multi-tenant features, and virtual exchange consolidation capabilities that are not available to other traditional enterprise virtualization solutions vendors today.
"Network as a Service" consolidation: "Network as a Service" (NaaS) is a key differentiating factor for vendors who want to deliver advanced enterprise solutions in the cloud, and Cloudstack 3 is precisely able to integrate closely with Citrix Netscaler® Provides a fast, secure, and reliable use experience for about 75% of the world's internet users. Cloudstack supports NetScaler sdx™ and vpx™ devices, making network-level consolidation easier to extend to products such as cloudbridge™ and Citrix Cloudgateway™. The virtual network connection is elevated to a new level to ensure higher security, performance, and seamless connectivity between the public cloud and the private cloud, regardless of the form of cloud that will be delivered to the user as a consolidation service.
Built-in Network Services Directory: In addition to integration with the NetScaler, Cloudstack continues to strengthen its rich and flexible network products, helping service providers to add sales network services by creating custom Network Service options directories. For the first time, the cloud platform provider has the ability to help cloud managers adopt a cloud implementation model that best suits their environment and workloads.
Excellent and simple user interface: The one thing that Scarlett has long praised is its focus on providing end users with a taste, simplicity, and proximity to consumer products. The new Cloudstack 3 also embodies this focus, which provides an excellent, simple, WYSIWYG user experience that allows even the first-tier cloud users to quickly build, start, and manage their workloads in the cloud. The incorporation of self service management capabilities, coupled with advanced business processes and automation technology, allows new IT services to be delivered to users in minutes rather than weeks.
OpenStack Swift Consolidation: The new Cloudstack 3 supports Swift, a OpenStack object storage technology for creating redundant, scalable object storage with a standardized server cluster to store PB-level accessible data.
"Citrix Ready" certification for cloud computing-building the world's largest cloud computing ecosystem
Jie also launched a Jein community project (Citrix Cloud Community Program), which introduced more than 2,200 products and services through "Citrix Ready" certification to work in conjunction with the SI Jein solution. The program showcases hundreds of leading technology companies and service providers working with Citrix to build the industry's largest cloud computing ecosystem. For more information, please visit the Community home page.
cloudstack.org--Open Source cloud computing user community
Since 2011 Si Jie acquired cloud.com, cloudstack.org Open Source Community's user participation has increased 4 times times, the world more than 25,000 cloud computing provider has contracted to join, and becomes the cloudstack.org community active member. In the past year, open source Cloudstack products have been downloaded more than 60,000 times, and the current monthly download volume on average 5 times times faster growth.
Sameer Dholakia, vice president and general manager of Jein Platform
"If built correctly, cloud computing can deploy new services to end users with greater efficiency, unlimited scale, and speed, shifting the way IT resources are delivered to an on-demand model, changing the economic discipline of data center operations." Through the tight integration with the Jein product line, our users have access to unmatched cloud virtualization, business organization, and network solution libraries, all of which are among the best in their kind and able to collaborate and work together with the hardware, software, and management products they already have deployed. ”
Vice president of cloud Strategy and architecture, Ed Laczynski,datapipe Company
"Cloudstack provides our users with a ' Swiss Army knife ' tool that covers rapid deployment, high performance, powerful APIs, and programmable features to build unique cloud systems without sacrificing compatibility. With the release of Cloudstack 3, Si Jie continues to contribute to the open platform, adhere to the compatibility of all types of virtual machine management programs, and in the production of the deployment of cloud platform constantly refresh the record, in the future it will continue to help us achieve ' among the world's leading mission-critical IT service provider ' vision. ”
Emil Edreu,edmunds, vice director of systems engineering
"Edmunds.com is a very innovative platform that requires a resilient and stable infrastructure that allows us to quickly and easily update our products to meet millions of of the car consumers who use our site." Citrix Cloudstack has always been our outstanding partner, and since we started using these products, they have continued to inject efficiencies into our processes, helping us quickly generate award-winning web tools and popular mobile apps. ”
Chief technical officer, George Reese,enstratus
"We are pleased to see that Citrix has been investing in expanding its own cloud business advantages and has launched the Cloudstack 3. While improving the platform, they have also expanded their partner ecosystems and launched plans to accelerate the adoption of this leading cloud computing platform by companies. The combination of Enstratus and Cloudstack 3 provides IT organizations and service providers with the tools they need to enable businesses to retain the control they need while leveraging cloud computing for self-service and automation. ”
Chris Sharp,equinix, general manager of capacity and cloud operations
"Today, companies are keen to build their own cloud infrastructure based on the models used by the world's most advanced cloud service providers." This approach enables them to deploy new cloud services to end users with higher performance, unlimited scale, and faster speed. Jie works with Equinix to provide business and service providers with the most successful cloud deployments in the world. Cloudstack 3 gives our users the opportunity to achieve unprecedented scale, performance, and seamless connectivity between public and private clouds by leveraging the global deployments offered on the Equinix platform. ”
Founder and CEO of Eirikur Hrafnsson,greenqloud
"As a pioneer in the field of green cloud computing, we have no choice but to Cloudstack-it is the leader in the free and open source software movement in the field of cloud computing." We have tried several IaaS solutions during the strategic development phase, but the simplicity and rapid market features of Citrix Cloudstack have fascinated us. Cloudstack's performance, reliability, and security match well with our vision for the public cloud, making our decisions very easy. ”
Ichiro nakayama,idc Frontier (IDCF) Director of business development
"The Cloudstack 3 enhancements and the extensive ecosystem provided by Jie not only allow us to further strengthen our public cloud services, but also provide a powerful opportunity for our business users to raise the level of application of the mixed cloud environment to new heights." ”
Vice president of Bailey Caldwell,rightscale Business development
"Since 2010, Rightscale and Cloudstack have been integrated into the deployment of many of the world's largest productive cloud platforms." Jie's investment in Cloudstack will further expand its leadership in the industry. The combination of Cloudstack 3 and Rightscale brings a rightscale cloud management platform for businesses and service providers that dramatically reduces the complexity of public cloud and private cloud infrastructure management, so it is faster and more productive for IT organizations and their end users. ”
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