New Citrix Cloudportal Cloud into profitable business

At this year's Citrix Synergy Cloud computing, networking and virtualization conference, Citrix released a new product line, Citrix Cloudportal, designed to transform the cloud provider's common cloud infrastructure into a lucrative business, Citrix has also rehearsed the upcoming next-generation flagship Citrix Cloudstack platform at this meeting, Cloudstack was acquired by Citrix earlier this year to acquire Cloud.com, so far, more than 2000 cloud providers around the world have chosen Citrix as a key platform to build their cloud business, and have swept 4 of the 5 largest public cloud providers, and today's news has further expanded Citrix's vision to help different scales and business models Cloud providers build the world's most successful cloud, transforming them into profitable businesses.

Use Citrix Cloudportal to mitigate cloud provider challenges

As industry shifts from PC to cloud, the cloud services market is expected to exceed $55 billion trillion by the end of 2014, and will be eaten by thousands of different providers offering a wide range of cloud services, including productive applications, gaming, consumer collaboration services, managing desktops, data storage, Business Continuity services and infrastructure are services. To maintain sufficient profitability and quality customer service, cloud providers need to provide new services, change options, add users and manage their accounts as quickly as possible. Some providers are trying to build their own user portals, but quickly find that the integration of new services is too complex, and that the cost of maintaining the platform is high, ultimately impacting their time to market new services and reducing flexibility.

The new Citrix Cloudportal product line eases the problems faced by providers, including account management, billing and metering, customer service and service delivery, in addition to allowing cloud providers to grow their business earlier and cost-effectively, Cloudportal also provides self-service for cloud users, Reduced management costs for providers and enhanced service experience. Cloudportal also has a wealth of provider-centric solutions for popular cloud products, including IAAS (infrastructure as a service), DaaS (desktop as a service), SaaS (software as a service), and Waas (Windows as services), and after partnering with Citrix, Public and private cloud providers can leverage their core competencies in applications, infrastructure, and data management to build different high-value services and manage from a simple online business portal.

The new Citrix Cloudportal product line has two versions, designed to solicit the views of the world's most successful cloud providers, and Citrix now pushes these two versions to all users.

Cloudportal Service Manager: Cloudportal Service Manager is an extension solution that manages the finished product end, which is the Windows Service cloud, as well as popular applications such as Exchange, Office, SharePoint, Lync and web hosting provide out-of-the-box support without any it expertise, providers can add and modify services from one place, manage users, delegate control and manage their accounts, thousands of service providers have used this solution to provide cloud hosting applications for over 250,000 users, These service providers use a comprehensive SDK to add more than 150 custom windows,web and Third-party SaaS services to the platform.

Cloudportal Business Manager: Cloudportal Business Manager is a comprehensive BSS (business support system, operational support system) for cloud providers that provides powerful, Easy-to-use account and partner management, pricing and billing, customer management and reporting capabilities, Enable customers to quickly launch a large cloud to the market. Working closely with large providers at design time, the Cloudportal business manager has been successfully applied to the global infrastructure cloud, including IDC Frontier in Japan, ninefold in Australia and Tata Instacompute Cloud in India.

Use Citrix Cloudstack 3 to reduce migration barriers

That's what Citrix Cloudstack is designed to do before providers build a successful business, and they need to make sure they build a business on a platform that is designed for the economy, resilient, and scalable cloud, not the traditional Enterprise Server virtualization platform (with a cloud management layer at the top), It was designed entirely from scratch, an open, hypervisor platform that helps customers build public and private clouds-simple, automated, resilient, scalable, and efficient.

At the Synergy conference in Barcelona this week, Citrix will also rehearse its upcoming Citrix Cloudstack 3, the first release of the Citrix logo, which helps cloud providers to quickly deliver highly scalable, highly reliable services to the market, New features include:

Virtualization Platform for Cloud optimization: Cloudstack 3 provides support for Hyper-v,kvm,ovm,vsphere and Xen, and includes a cloud optimized Citrix XenServer 6 as the core Integration feature, This streamlined virtualization platform will bring new levels of scalability, manageability, security, multi-tenant, and virtual Exchange integration without traditional enterprise virtualization solutions.

Differences with NaaS: NaaS (network as a service) is the key difference between providers delivering advanced enterprise solutions, Cloudstack 3 will be tightly integrated with Citrix NetScaler product lines, starting with Netsacler SDX and VPX devices, through Citrix Extended by Cloudbridge and Citrix Cloudgateway, service providers can provide value-added services around enterprise-class network capabilities, including global load balancing, disaster recovery, application security, protection of remote connectivity, and network performance optimization.

Expanding support for OpenStack: Citrix is the OpenStack's second largest contributor, OpenStack is the most popular open source cloud infrastructure solution, now has more than 1100 cloud developers, more than 100 member companies involved, Cloudstack 3 will introduce support for Swift, OpenStack-oriented storage technology for creating redundant, scalable object storage, using standardized server clusters to store PB-level access data.

Product Schedule

The Cloudportal Service Manager will be released by the Citrix Service provider (CSP) program in mid-December 2011, based on the technology acquired by Ems-cortex earlier this year.

The Cloudportal business Manager is now on the market, and cloud providers are available through the Citrix Cloud market development team.

Cloudstack 3 will be listed in the fourth quarter, when more announcements will be announced.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)