In Synergy keynote today Mark Templeton announced Project Avalon, a platform to provide posts working and applications as cloud services. It is almost universal when talking to customers that the topic of cloud inevitably comes. What is interesting is to look at what cloud means to different customers and use cases driving their need to build and / or consuming cloud services. As discussions transitions to how desktops, applications and data integrated into their cloud plans, it is clear that everyone is at a different stage on the way to the cloud. In that spirit, I want to share some of the history and cases of Avalon project management use that customers have shared with me and how it enables business and service providers to adopt and build service cloud computing at their own pace
technological Transitions and multi-Site environments
We have many customers with large environments across the globe. The first priority for these traditional customers of the company is to manage the complexity of orchestrating and automating their disparate XenDesktop and XenApp environment from a common layer. Standing a new environment requires manual configuration and providing the new site. Collectively, we have made progress in automating the process through PowerShell scripts, but a misconfigured cmdlet can cause a nasty reaction from the downstream chain. The flow of specific work site through challenges created for expanding seamlessly across multiple sites. As XenDesktop covers a wider range of user needs or wishing to migrate to a new version, the complexity ratio has potential increases significantly large scale. To meet these challenges customers will be able to start using the service orchestration technology originally introduced with Project Rainmaker to help automate and orchestrate their
existing hybrid deployments and new environments deployed on virtualized infrastructure.
We also see a new wave of emerging enterprise customers who are willing to use cloud resources to meet their needs users desktop and application. But the transition is not a magical moment when they cut everything to the management of their desktops in a cloud. It is a process where you strategically place new desktop groups and applications in a private cloud on-site such as CloudStack or perhaps a look to the 1500 Citrix CSPs to provide additional capacity in the public cloud for their needs desktop and applications. With Project Avalon, Citrix customers will have the flexibility to provision and manage a hypervisor environment and hybrid clouds together. With these customers can quickly add new workstations and applications in the public cloud or migrate users to further their internal private cloud.
service providers and IT-as-a-service in the enterprise
Finally, we have seen a growing convergence between service providers and a new wave of companies informed. What I mean by enlightened business? These are the customers that have adopted the service as a service. They talk about self-service, isolation tenants, delegated administration, and service delivery to their customers - you all things here traditionally from a service provider. In fact, the service providers have built solutions focused on service for years and with Project Avalon, they will be able to build on a proven platform to add workstations, applications and data on their offers existing services.
We are excited about what is coming with Project Avalon as we work with our customers and partners. If you are at Citrix Synergy this week, you'll be able to get more information during Thursday's keynote, attend a Synergy session, or reading one of Project Avalon blogs of some of my colleagues Citrites.
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