A screenshot of the Cloud.com's website
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud technology provider Citrix (www.citrix.com) announced on Tuesday that it has completed the acquisition of open source cloud software developer Cloud.com (www.cloud.com). The terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, though a report by TechCrunch suggests it sold for more than $200 million.
This news comes a week after Cloud.com named Christian Reilly vice president of enterprise solutions.
Cloud.com is known for its CloudStack product line that helps service providers deploy and manage simple, cost-effective cloud services.
Citrix says the acquisition further establishes Citrix as a leader in infrastructure for the cloud provider market. The company now offers a complete portfolio of virtualization, orchestration and networking solutions purpose-built for the cloud.
“As the industry moves into the cloud era, Citrix is committed to leading the charge with powerful solutions that make the cloud more open, more secure, and more personal,” Mark Templeton, president and CEO of Citrix Systems said in a statement. “We are delighted to welcome the Cloud.com team to the Citrix family to focus our combined efforts on helping customers of all sizes make a difference in business, and in the lives of their customers and employees.”
According to the press release, the Cloud.com product line is designed from the ground up to help providers build elastic and efficient public clouds.
With the acquisition, both Citrix and Cloud.com will extend their commitment to openness and interoperability, according to the companies. Cloud.com will continue to support Citrix XenServer and VMware vSphere, as well as open source hypervisors like Xen. Citrix will add support for Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center to the Cloud.com product line.
“Cloud.com is the platform behind many of the world’s most innovative and successful clouds,” Sheng Liang, founder and CEO of Cloud.com stated. “Joining forces with Citrix will dramatically accelerate our mission to help customers achieve all the promise cloud computing has to offer, in a way that’s open, secure and efficient.”
Citrix says it will strengthen support of OpenStack with the acquisition. As a founding member of the open source cloud infrastructure, Citrix is the second largest contributor to the project and is a member of the OpenStack policy board, it says.
Cloud.com CEO Sheng Liang will continue to lead the design, architecture and technology of the CloudStack product line and will report to Sameer Dholakia, group vice president and general manager of cloud platforms product group at Citrix.
Web hosting providers have been showing their commitment to open source by joining the OpenStack community, and launching public clouds based on OpenStack.
Recently, web host DreamHost announced it is contributing code to OpenStack.
Managed hosting provider Internap recently announced it is developing a public infrastructure as a service cloud platform with OpenStack. The WHIR spoke to Internap SVP of product management and business development Paul Carmody about the OpenStack community.
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