The title of this post is a riff on the now famous quote from Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens on the New York Journal of confusion between it and the time of his ailing cousin James Ross Clemens, who was removed a continent. The same thing happened recently in terms of two independent events. An organizational changes here at Citrix and the perceived vitality of the technologies that we help support, Apache CloudStack.
Recently, we combined the Citrix Cloud Platforms Group and the Citrix cloud networking group in an integrated unit called Citrix NCSP (Networking, Cloud & SP Group). We believe that these changes our position will strengthen the market in the rapidly evolving data center. Klaus Oestermann as Vice President and General Manager of the newly combined group NCSP lead. This will create a closer collaboration between the teams that develop our Citrix Cloud Platform (supported by Apache CloudStack) Citrix NetScaler and XenServer (built on Xen project) and other related products.
some of the experts Unfortunately in our industry as part of a recent restructuring at Citrix (and the departure of some of our former colleagues to pursue other opportunities) speculate that this is a sign that we our commitment to Apache would CloudStack and the project die, are leaving. That's probably because they do not know exactly how the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) works and how it supports Citrix.
I suspect that many of them do not understand that despite the lack of fanfare that the ASF provides technologies that power most Internet sites, a large part of the Java ecosystem and much, much more. While the tech industry faints on Big Data (a market which is estimated to reach $ 50 billion in 2017). You will be surprised to know that the Hadoop MapReduce technology that is the core of the movement was developed by a relatively small group of developers in the Apache Software Foundation. Or the Apache server, the forces are not a multi-billion dollar company is maintained more sites on the Internet than any other by a dedicated group of volunteers.
Probably they knew this not because the ASF a technology development organization and they spend almost no effort, noise on their performance of the industry probably do not realize this. In fact, a company can not even join the ASF only individuals can, that part of the strength is. Therefore, you should not can equate Citrix and Apache CloudStack. Although many companies employ developers, there is no company that can buy influence. A company can not rely only individuals can choose to participate or not the project. It is unique compared to many other similar organizations so it is no wonder that they are confused. The fact of the matter is that Citrix Apache CloudStack continue to support, and will continue to cooperate with a growing community of developers and users.
also supports Citrix many open software development efforts even some that could collide with parts of our portfolio, while other compliments, it's just a part of a large industry leaders with diverse products to be. For example, we want XenServer to be a viable virtualization option for Apache CloudStack, but we share part of the development work with other global technology leaders. In a world of open source-based clouds we dominated work with Amazon, Google, Oracle, Intel, ARM, Rackspace, Verizon, to ensure that the Xen project that powers XenServer a vibrant growing technology. Citrix and our customers benefit from the mass of industrial support Xen project Technologies and use that. In our commercial XenServer offer
We were also a founding member of the Open Daylight Project Linux Foundation an industry-wide effort to develop an open source SDN controller. We do this because it is an interesting development in networking that we believe that they are well with our NetScaler Application Delivery Controller and our cloud technologies. This also means that we can work companies that offer products and services that can compete for the same user.
There are no absolutes here other than to do the best we can to serve the needs of our customers. To this end, Citrix will allow our solutions on the platforms, which are attractive to our customers. That is, we want XenServer, NetScaler, XenDesktop and XenApp combined with our entire product catalog to clarify the needs of our users, whether they use OpenStack, Citrix Cloud Platform, Apache CloudStack and Amazon, Google and Microsoft, where appropriate.
We also see hybrids of these technologies where users combine orchestration based on cloud in combination with storage solutions based on OpenStack storage. Others see the opportunity as OpenStack storage lead John Dickinson on Cloud Collaboration Conference speak of on technologies integrated validation that a strong open source ecosystem is one that extends the silos of an individual project. Often it is a matter by not or .
open source is not a zero-sum game. Although we support a lot of development in Apache CloudStack and sponsor, we are participating in a much larger cloud community. We have employees, the board members in the Red Hat Gluster Community, we will look at the integration work with their Ceph technology, we even have tools of eucalyptus use to test our Amazon compatibility and contribute to many other. We will also work to ensure that NetScaler and XenServer run well under OpenStack and to make many other technologies. The end result is that we participate in the development of technologies that Citrix customers benefit, require a large variety of cloud ecosystem. In the future, we will continue to share the development of technologies in a broad industry that benefits our customers and to this end we will continue to do what they ask.
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