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  • Citrix CloudPortal – Enabling Services Providers to Build Out Broad Portfolios

    March 27, 2013

    Business
    Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, netsuite, Platform as a service, Software as a Service, Software development kit, SunGard Availability Services
     

    The ~aaS (as a service) acronym must be the most overdone three letters in technology – not satisfied with the main three divisions – IaaS, PaaS and SaaS – there are a plethora of other acronyms as well XaaS,…

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  • CloudStack Graduates to an Apache Top Level Project

    March 22, 2013

    Business
    Apache foundation, Citrix, Cloud.com, CloudStack, Dell, IBM, OpenStack, Peder Ulander
     

    Almost a year ago Citrix scored a coup when it’s CloudStack product (which itself was formerly the cloud operating system known as cloud.com) was elevated to the cloud platform of the Apache foundation. It was all the more interesting…

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  • Citrix Acquires Beetil – Great Result for the Wellington Heroes!

    September 10, 2012

    Business
    Assistly, beetil, Calif, Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, Dan Lee, Wellington, zendesk
     

    The web-based helpdesk space is pretty busy – but while big names like Zendesk and Assistly (now help.com desk.com) get most of the attention, a little battler from Wellington, New Zealand has been quietly building out its product. That…

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  • Podio Acquired by Citrix

    April 11, 2012

    Business
    Citrix, Citrix Systems, Podio
     

    Short and sweet since I’ve been awake for almost 24 hours. News just to hand that Citrix has acquired Podio (much more on them here) for an undisclosed sum. Citrix is promising that nothing will change for this most…

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  • HP Moves its Public Cloud Into Publicly Available Beta

    April 10, 2012

    Business
    amazon web services, Apache, Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, CloudStack, hp, OpenStack, Software release life cycle
     

    Since the announcement last week that Citrix would be moving it’s CloudStack product to Apache, some of the move vociferous support for OpenStack has come from HP, a company that is an active member of OpenStack and has a…

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  • Citrix Scores a Coup–CloudStack to Become Cloud Platform of the Apache Foundation

    April 3, 2012

    Business
    amazon, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, amazon web services, Apache foundation, AWS, Citrix, CloudStack, OpenStack, Peder Ulander, rackspace, VMware
     

    [Addendum – I knew about this announcement a week ago. Out of respect for those who briefed me on it under embargo I have decided to hold to the embargo despite others decisions not to do so. Personally I…

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  • enStratus–Big Names, Big Money

    November 3, 2011

    Business
    Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, enStratus, George Reese, James Urquhart, John Willis, OpenStack
     

    News yesterday that cloud governance and management vendor enStratus (more on them here) has raised a cool $4.5M in a funding round that includes El Dorado ventures. The SEC filing is for an initial $3.5M but reliable sources tell me…

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