Sky Cloud Trend co-cloudstack community

May 23, the sky Cloud trend and Citrix jointly announced that the two sides reached a strategic cooperation agreement, will be in the market development, product sales, personnel training, user technical support and other aspects of cooperation to jointly promote the development of Cloudstack community in China. At the same time, the sky Cloud trend will provide comprehensive technical support for customers using Cloudstack cloud platform.

Industry insiders believe that the cooperation between the two sides since the beginning of April this year Cloudstack cloud platform to join the Apache Software Foundation after another significant progress, on the one hand, Chinese enterprises and institutions will be able to take full advantage of Cloudstack Cloud Platform's advanced performance and scalability, reduce operating expenses, Improve business continuity, enhance security, reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, on the other hand, will accelerate the spread of cloud computing in the Chinese market application.

April 5, Citrix announced that the Cloudstack open source software will join the Apache Software Foundation, now officially belongs to the Apache Open source project. Cloudstack as the industry has the most productive environment open source cloud platform, was first developed by cloud.com Company, July 2011 by Citrix Acquisition. Since Citrix acquired Cloud.com in 2011, user involvement in cloudstack.org Open source community has increased 4 times-fold, and more than 25,000 cloud providers worldwide have signed up to join and become active members of the cloudstack.org community.

So why does Citrix choose the cloud trend as the first partner to promote the Cloudstack open source community in China?

In this respect, Kevin.kluge, vice president of cloud computing products at Citrix, gave this explanation: as the first domestic development of Cloudstack source code level manufacturers, the cloud trend in the past 18 months in the domestic deployment of more than 10 large-scale commercial cloud platform, with other manufacturers can not compare the technical strength and implementation experience. believe that the strategic cooperation of the signing, the sky Cloud trend to the Apache Cloudstack project to bring more contributions.

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. As a successful public cloud platform, Cloudstack has helped at least 85 large production cloud platforms achieve more than $1 billion of operating revenue, with typical customers including South Korea, Australia, and India's telecoms operators.

Gao Zhaozhao, vice president of cloud trends, said Zhang Ming, the two godfather of the Chinese software industry, is creating a cloud-like trend in Tian, the goal of which is to build world-class cloud computing products in China. The Apache Software Foundation has spawned very successful cloud projects such as Hadoop, HBase, and hive. It has proven to be effective in nurturing and advancing the Open-source Cloud project, while also bringing together a vibrant supplier and developer community to accelerate innovation, interoperability and standardization. As a result, the cloud trend has long been invested in the Cloudstack open source cloud community, helping developers and users to create innovation, promote industry standards, and encourage interoperability and openness in the cloud domain.

According to Kevin, the cloud.com has not been bought by Citrix Company, and the cloud trend company has been related to strategic cooperation. Before Cloudstack Open source, the sky Cloud trend Company has obtained cloudstack full set of source code from cloud.com, as well as all China's sales license and pricing rights.

Industry insiders believe that the cloud trend and Citrix reached the cooperation agreement, the significance lies in: The two sides will jointly promote the development of the Cloudstack community in China, so that Chinese users can choose the industry's most advanced, most mature cloud platform, at the same time in the training of personnel, Technical support and other aspects of the trend of the cloud to obtain localized support. This means that the sky Cloud trend company can in China according to different users, customized changes, and even the kernel changes to meet the needs of Chinese customers.

Along with the formal conclusion of the strategic cooperation Agreement between the two sides, the cloud trend and the cooperation between Citrix have been synchronized. May 22 Cloud trends and Citrix in Beijing China Hotel jointly held the first Cloudstack design Camp, from the system architecture, ideas, deployment experience, respectively, made a simple introduction, and provide detailed explanations for more cloudstack enthusiasts to learn how to join the community, how to get help from the community and how to contribute to the community. The industry nearly 80 cloudstack enthusiasts to the scene, and the training effect gave a very high evaluation.

June 18, the sky Cloud trend and Citrix in Nanjing successfully held the second Cloudstack design Camp, also received the same acclaim. It is reported that, at the domestic vast number of cloudstack enthusiasts, the two sides will continue to cloudstack training continued, the next month will be selected in the country a city to organize training sessions.

Gao Zhaozhao said the two sides will also jointly finance the development of Cloudstack communities from the market to the technical level at home.

Kevin Kluge and Gao Zhaozhao both believe that the cloud trend and Citrix's strategic cooperation will lead Cloudstack to become the de facto cloud computing platform industry standards, but also will promote Chinese software companies in the global cloud computing arena has more power of speech.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)