Citrix Consolidates Cloud Divisions, and Several Cloud Execs Depart
September 5, 2014
Grazed from WebHostReview. Author: David Hamilton.
Three Citrix executives involved in Citrix’s cloud computing efforts, including its open-source cloud operating system CloudStack, have left the company. According to a GigaOm report, Cloud Platforms Group VP and GM Sameer Dholakia, CTO Sheng Liang and Market Development VP Shannon Williams have all left the company. Liang and Williams are starting a new company, according to an email sent from Williams.
Meanwhile, Klaus Oestermann is remaining with Citrix to lead a new cloud group that combines the Cloud Platforms Group and Cloud Networking into a single business unit known as Networking, Cloud & Service Provider Group or “NCSP”…
CloudStack is a cloud orchestration platform that developed from Citrix’s acquisition of Cloud.com three years ago, and which now competes with OpenStack. In recent years, Citrix has gone from been one of the founding partners of OpenStack…
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