CloudStack strikes back in the battle of open-source clouds
October 17, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Cisco and CA are working with Citrix to support its CloudPlatform implementation of CloudStack. The news, out of Citrix Synergy in Barcelona, comes as a raft of OpenStack news hits the wire.
In case you’ve forgotten in the face of so much OpenStack news this week, there’s more than one open-source cloud in town. And, Citrix-backed CloudStack gained some key vendor support with Cisco and CA signing onto the effort this week. The news comes out of Citrix Synergy in Barcelona, halfway around the world from the OpenStack Summit in San Diego…
Citrix kicked up a ruckus six months ago when it — an OpenStack participant — offered up CloudStack to the Apache Foundation as an alternative open-source cloud. Citrix had acquired CloudStack via its purchase of Cloud.com a year earlier. Now, at Citrix Synergy Barcelona it’s continuing that push…
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