Cloud News: Citrix, CloudStack, Nimbula, Hexagrid
October 3, 2012
Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: John Rath.
Citrix launches XenServer 6.1. Citrix (CTXS) announced the latest version of XenServer, its complete server virtualization platform based on the open-source Xen hypervisor. New features in version 6.1 include direct integration with Apache CloudStack and Citrix CloudPlatform, a new Storage XenMotion technology to allow moving running virtual machines without the need or shared storage, and a XenServer Conversion Manager to automate batch conversions of VMware virtual machines to XenServer virtual machines.
“Citrix has gained a significant foothold in the cloud computing space with XenServer and more recently Citrix CloudPlatform (powered by Apache CloudStack),” said Peder Ulander, Vice President of product marketing, Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix. ”XenServer is already the most widely deployed virtualization platform in large public clouds today. The tight integration between XenServer and CloudPlatform demonstrated in XenServer 6.1 will provide a new level of manageability and security that will provide a strategic advantage for our cloud customers.”…
Nimbula selected by Yandex. Nimbula announced that Yandex is using Nimbula Director for its private cloud infrastructure. Russia-based Yandex is one of three companies worldwide that has an international web index database. Shortening its development cycle was a major driver for Yandex and using Nimbula Director helped to to improve their Infrastructure-as-a-Service private cloud, and leverage a developer-friendly hardware architecture. ”Quality assurance is a big part of our improvements, that’s why we need a reliable, flexible and easy to maintain solution to support our development process,” said Vlad Seliverstov, Chief of Advertising Services Operation at Yandex. “We have an in-house private cloud system and we have tried a few open source and proprietary solutions to improve our Infrastructure-as-aService environment. Nimbula Director meets all our requirements and lets us dramatically cut the time for testing and deployment.”…
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