Citrix C3 is an integrated portfolio of Citrix delivery infrastructure products packaged and marketed to the cloud service provider market.
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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- following up to the initial debut of its Citrix Cloud Center (or Citrix C3) product family last Fall, Citrix Systems (www.citrix.com) has announced some new offerings for Citrix C3 to further equip service providers with the infrastructure and product licensing needed to deliver clouds services to their customers.
Citrix is now enhancing the C3 platform with the addition of Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop, enabling service providers to deliver Windows applications and desktops as a cloud service, according to the company's Wednesday announcement at the Citrix Synergy (www.citrixsynergy.com) conference. In addition, Citrix C3 has been updated to include scalable, secure, multi-tenant virtual switch and application delivery controller capabilities.
Citrix has also unveiled the Citrix Service Provider program, designed specifically for service providers who provide hosted software services to end users with pay-as-you-go pricing. To further help customers gain experience with new cloud-based scenarios, Citrix is also unveiling a series of Citrix C3 Cloud Blueprints, which offer guidelines and best practices for testing virtualization, security and application services in a cloud environment.
With these enhancements to the Citrix C3 platform and program, as well as the new Citrix C3 Lab based on Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, also announced this week, Citrix hoping to build an essential set of resources that help make cloud computing a reality for customers of all sizes.
Citrix C3 with XenApp and XenDesktop is currently available, however, the Citrix Service Provider Program will begin June 1, 2009.
Citrix C3 has been used by service providers such as SoftLayer (www.softlayer.com) and has been incorporated into utility computing technology developer 3Tera's (www.3tera.com) AppLogic cloud computing platform to make enterprise-grade cloud solutions available in either external hosted clouds, or as a platform that can be deployed in corporate data centers behind customer firewalls, allowing entire virtual data centers and applications to operate on the cloud.
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