Citrix Joins Mirantis Unlocked Partner Program
to Offer Customers Choice
Today, Citrix announced that NetScaler, the leading networking
solution from Citrix, is now certified to run on the Mirantis
OpenStack distribution. This marks the first integration that
Citrix has made with an OpenStack distribution for Citrix
technologies. The cross-certification of NetScaler comes as part of
the Mirantis Unlocked partner program, which enables both companies
to work together to provide interoperability, enterprise readiness
and best of breed technologies for enterprise customers. The joint
solution gives customers access to a broader portfolio of products
to dramatically increase performance and scale for Mirantis
OpenStack deployments. In addition, Mirantis will work with Citrix
to integrate the deployment of XenServer, the company’s commercial
virtualization platform based on the open-source Xen Project
Hypervisor, through the OpenStack Fuel installer, which
dramatically simplifies and accelerates the deployment of Mirantis
OpenStack and core technologies to deploy cloud infrastructure.
Citrix will also cross-certify XenServer with Mirantis OpenStack
later this year.
Customers are increasingly faced with the challenge of scaling
their OpenStack deployments and looking for production-grade
infrastructure that supports the demands of their business.
NetScaler and XenServer solutions from Citrix are used as core
infrastructure for some of the largest cloud infrastructure
providers worldwide, and this announcement brings the power of
these products to customers choosing to build their clouds on
OpenStack. With the integration with Mirantis OpenStack, customers
will have access to leading industry-proven software defined
datacenter products to deploy and scale their deployments.
Citrix NetScaler Control Center has been specifically designed
to natively integrate with OpenStack and is certified to work with
Mirantis OpenStack today. NetScaler today offers the broadest
choice of form factors - from hardware to virtual appliances - and
complex deployment methods including clustering deployments for a
single management plane. NetScaler Control Center allows the full
range of deployment methods natively integrated with OpenStack.
Customers can now deploy complex workloads on their clouds, through
the use native OpenStack APIs to drive Load Balancing as a Service
(LBaaS), using the rich ADC capabilities of NetScaler for workload
availability, security, scalability, and performance. Through the
combination of OpenStack and NetScaler with Tri-Scale technology
for scaling up, in and out, clouds are able to provide elasticity
across all aspects of their infrastructure.
XenServer is a crucial piece of this cloud infrastructure,
running mission-critical workloads for some of the world’s largest
communication service providers, cloud service providers and
enterprises. XenServer offers a full 64-bit kernel architecture
that allows customers to take advantage of the latest hardware and
OS platforms, and supports enterprise-grade networking, storage and
workload management. With its next-generation architecture
supporting both enterprise-grade and carrier-grade features,
XenServer is the most comprehensive, cost-effective and open
virtualization platform choice for enterprises and service
providers. Citrix recently announced XenServer 6.5 SP1 which
features increased scalability, improved 3D graphics acceleration
and management of Docker containers.
CloudOps has been building and operating clouds for service
providers and enterprises with Citrix technology including
Netscaler and XenServer since 2008, including the regional Canadian
cloud IaaS "cloud.ca" With market demand for OpenStack growing
fast, CloudOps has partnered with Mirantis, endorsing their "pure
play OpenStack" focus.
Quotes
Ian Rae, Founder and CEO at CloudOps
"We are very excited that two of our key technology
partners, Citrix and Mirantis, are working together to
ensure highly functional and supportable solutions based on
OpenStack, Netscaler and XenServer. Cloud operations at scale are
very challenging and this certification will provide both improved
functional integration while lowering operational risk for service
providers and customers."
Nand Mulchandani, Vice President, Market Development,
Delivery Networks at Citrix
“Through our relationship with Mirantis, Citrix ensures that
NetScaler and XenServer, that already power some of the largest
cloud infrastructure systems in the world, will be certified and
integrated with Mirantis OpenStack and will give customers a choice
of the best infrastructure available to develop their cloud.”
Boris Renski, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer at
Mirantis
“Many enterprises choose OpenStack because it brings them choice
and flexibility in how they build their on-premise clouds. Citrix’s
certification of NetScaler and XenServer through Mirantis Unlocked
is an important step in this direction. Citrix customers can
continue their cloud transformation journey by tapping into the
agility and scalability of OpenStack.”
Related Links
- Announcement: Citrix Sponsors OpenStack
Foundation To Help Drive Cloud Interoperability Standards
- Blog: Citrix Teams with Mirantis and
OpenStack, Serves Up Big Wins for Customers
- Blog: Using ADC Services To Build
Scalable Redundant OpenStack Clouds
- White paper: Using Production-Grade ADC
Services to Build Scalable, Redundant OpenStack Clouds
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About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is leading the transition to
software-defining the workplace, uniting virtualization,
mobility management, networking and SaaS solutions to enable new
ways for businesses and people to work better. Citrix
solutions power business mobility through
secure, mobile workspaces that provide people with
instant access to apps, desktops, data and communications on
any device, over any network and cloud. With annual revenue in
2014 of $3.14 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more than
330,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Learn
more at www.citrix.com.
About Mirantis
Mirantis is the pure play OpenStack company. Mirantis delivers
all the software, services, training and support needed for running
OpenStack. More customers rely on Mirantis than any other company
to get to production deployment of OpenStack at scale. Mirantis is
among the top three companies worldwide in contributing open source
software to OpenStack, and has helped build and deploy some of the
largest OpenStack clouds at companies such as Cisco, Comcast,
Ericsson, Expedia, Workday, NASA, Samsung and Symantec. Mirantis is
venture-backed by Insight Venture Partners, August Capital,
Ericsson, Intel Capital, Sapphire Ventures and WestSummit Capital,
with headquarters in Mountain View, California.
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