Cloud computing is a major transformational force in the IT business today. Market leaders such as Apache CloudStack or Amazon Web Services has launched a new cloud infrastructure class that is low cost, highly scalable and easy to manage. By adopting cloud infrastructure, companies are able to enjoy the same type of data center technology developed by Internet companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon.
Cloud architecture is different from enterprise architecture inherited from the data center. For example, enterprise data centers are usually built using vertically scale server clusters, network and storage. Implementation of disaster recovery for enterprise applications require real-time virtual replication of the entire system state. Although enterprise-class infrastructure is generally reliable, when infrastructure fails, the application also fails. However, applications developed for the cloud infrastructure must assume that the underlying infrastructure can fail. Because the cloud infrastructure usually involves a large amount of computer resources, failures can be quite common. Cloud applications are designed to recover not only individual server failures and storage, but also to network failure or complete failures in data centers. Cloud applications are usually built to help balancing (GSLB) technologies that can redirect requests outside the data center failed Load Global Server. As such disaster recovery is designed for cloud computing applications.
corporate developers writing new applications will almost certainly target cloud platforms like Apache CloudStack or Amazon Web Services. It is important to remember that the applications designed for the cloud infrastructure is very different from existing enterprise applications. Cross-the-board adoption of cloud infrastructure, therefore, will only happen when companies turn their existing to run applications on the cloud. Here lies a major challenge of cloud computing: how the company can transform their existing workload
As the leader in desktop virtualization and cloud software platform, Citrix is uniquely positioned to put on the Project Avalon market: the office the next generation virtualization product that is optimized to run on the cloud infrastructure and can be delivered as a cloud service. Project Avalon enables companies to transform some of their applications workloads, office windows and the most important windows, to run on the cloud infrastructure.
It took great engineering efforts to transform the XenDesktop product, which was designed to run on the enterprise virtualization architecture, working seamlessly on Apache CloudStack and Amazon Web Services. It was not easy but we did it. Here's what we learned: the workload of the existing business can be converted to run on the cloud. This is what the cloud is all about transformation.
Windows desktop is an ideal workload to the cloud. office needs tend to fluctuate as the company grows, companies merge, or with seasonal and temporary labor. If a typical user accesses his virtual office 40 hours a week, the desktop instance is inactive for more than 76% of the time. Elasticity is a great match for the cloud.
Project Avalon allows Windows desktop and Windows applications to be delivered as a cloud service. This will benefit both enterprises and service providers. Enterprises and service providers are looking for features such as self-service, metering, billing / chargeback, and delegated administration.
Interested? You can not wait to get their hands on the Project Avalon software? Follow our progress http://www.citrix.com/projectavalon.
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