Given that my days of working with Citrix products dates back to August 1999, I was stoked after they bought cloud.com. I immediately signed up for CloudStack.org community and downloaded the software. I finally got a single server installation running in my house, not being a Linux guy kind of made it challenging, but I made. I started speculating with in my company on what and how Citrix was going to integrate this into their product suite. Just to say after hearing this new offering, I wasn't far off.
The Citrix Cloud Platform is comprised of three components:
Apache CloudStack - Citrix bought the company last year and ages everything away to the Apache Software Foundation
XenServer
NetScaler
The price of this new offering was announced during the second keynote address at $795/socket per year. Very nice price.
As organizations move from the "PC Era to the Cloud Era, they have to quit building and operating and transition to aggregating and orchestration" their resources( I have to credit Citrix CEO Mark Templeton with that quote). Once they decide to move into this transition phase and empower their users with self-service and scalable resources, they have to decide if they want a internal private cloud or use a hosting provider or better yet a combination of both.
This is where the Citrix Cloud Platform comes in. This solution is capable of being used by a Service Provider or as an internal private cloud. I will write more in depth analysis of this solution once I get back home and get the latest version up and running in my lab. To say the least, I am really stoked about the unlimited possibilities that this solution will bring.
How this fits into MCPc anyplace workspace framework is an interesting conundrum. It could cover the My Desktop and My Data frameworks by being used as a basis of an internal private cloud. Or it could be used as a framework that is an evolution of the existing over framework, My Cloud. The My Cloud theory would be to provide our I customers with an Amazon like cloud but ran by us. Used into conjunction with a private cloud solutions, we could provide customers extensible scalability and elasticity when and where they need it during times of need or in the event of a disaster.
Again I want to reiterate that these are my opinions and not those of my company and the 'MY CLOUD' framework DOES NOT EXIST AT THIS TIME!!!!!!!!!!
Just my theories.......... More later on this in my write up of Project Avalon
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