Looking at the cloud strategy of Si Jie from the acquisition

Buy cloud.com compete with Amazon and VMware

July, think outstanding price 200 million dollars will cloud.com buy into the bag. Cloud.com is a cloud computing software company that allows Citrix users to run cloud computing software faster and cheaper. It is not difficult to see the focus of Si jie in the current hottest "cloud" field, have to admit, cloud.com is really a good domain name. The industry thinks it will change the cloud-computing landscape, as it will become the biggest competitor for VMware and Amazon in the cloud computing market after mergers and acquisitions.

Jie's acquisition roadmap

500 million purchase XenSource have results

When it comes to thinking about Jay, you will think of the flagship product XenServer. Then you'll have to mention the big bucks for 2007, and buy 500 million dollars for an enterprise-class virtual infrastructure solution Vendor, XenSource. Then, Citrix introduced the enterprise-class virtualization products based on Xen, and changed the price model, giving free xenserver and concentrating on the Sales virtualization management function.

Last year at the VMworld 2010 conference, Jie announced the acquisition of Vmlogix to help create and manage test and development environments, as well as the pre production environment.

Recently, the new XenServer 6.0 has been positioned as a hypervisor for public cloud service providers and is also taking the opportunity to redirect its cloud computing strategy. "Our virtualization technology is focused on cloud deployment and cloud vendor architecture," said Derek Slayton, senior manager of the product market. ”

What is the performance of desktop virtualization?

XenServer This free platform has become a foothold for emerging virtualization projects, such as virtual desktops and cloud computing. So in the virtual desktop market, what about the performance of Si Jie?

For small and medium-sized enterprises, the XenDesktop desktop products complex and expensive, this May, Si Jie acquired Kaviza and its Vdi-in-a-box products to solve the problem of SMB using Virtual desktop. The "Vdi-in-a-box" technology is a Kaviza desktop virtualization product for SMEs that can manage deployments across multiple systems and on a central server's Windows desktop image.

The acquisition of Ringcube in August is also aimed at desktop virtualization. Ringcube's software delivers dedicated virtual desktops, Jie calls it personal vdisk, which contains a complete set of operating system and user information, as well as all applications of user requirements.

How to integrate after acquisition?

This is a difficult problem. Users want the vendor to integrate the purchased product into a holistic solution and manage it using a centralized console, rather than requiring additional management interfaces. Jie is doing well in this area, cloud.com software can work in conjunction with XenServer Software, Ringcube product line can now support Citrix XenDesktop 5.