Citrix buys cloud computing software company cloud.com

Beijing Time July 12 Evening News, computer network software manufacturer Citrix Bae said in Tuesday, has agreed to acquire cloud.com of start-up enterprises. Citrix did not disclose the price of the acquisition, and Cloud.com software helps companies move computing tasks to large data centers.

Through the acquisition, Citrix says, the company's customers will be able to use cloud computing software at a faster, cheaper price. After the acquisition, Citrix will enter the cloud computing infrastructure software sector, and the relevant business battalion received 2013 years is expected to reach 8 billion U.S. dollars.

The Cloud.com,citrix will focus on private cloud technology, which helps businesses run cloud computing services on their own servers. For example, a company's branch office will be able to connect to its data center at different locations. Service providers can also use cloud.com software to provide computing services to customers.

After the acquisition, the competition between Citrix and VMware and Amazon will be more intense. VMware held a new product launch event in Tuesday, and the company is leading the virtualization technology. VMware's technology can improve software efficiency and reduce the number of servers needed. Amazon's Web services help companies run software on Amazon servers at lower prices, and Microsoft's Windows Azure is targeting the market. Analysts call the technology "infrastructure as a service."

Cloud.com's clients include Zynga, GoDaddy, Nokia, Tower Consulting and KT, a South Korean operator. Zynga relies on cloud.com software to handle the huge amount of traffic in the game. Nokia's researchers used the software to build the environment on the server and run the software.

James Staten, a Forrester analyst, James Stetten that cloud.com's Cloudstack software helps software automatically invoke separate computing and storage devices to do its job. Compared to VMware and Microsoft's cloud computing products, the cost of using the software is only 1/10. "If you use VMware or Microsoft's platform to build a cloud computing system, you need to share profits with them," says Stetten. ”

Citrix began developing in the late 90, and the company's software helps Windows PCs run some older applications stored on servers or mainframes. This allows businesses to protect their previous investments while deploying PCs. Citrix currently has most of its revenue from desktop to network software.

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