Fresh off the heels of the VMware vCloud annoucement, Citrix has announced their own “Cloud Enabling” product titled Citrix Cloud Cente (C3). Similar to the vCloud offering, C3 will enable data centers to build their own cloud platform.You can get a copy of XenServer 5 today, but it’s unclear how the suite of tools that make up C3 will become available to the public.
C3 appears to be made up of different products that Citrix owns such as WANScaler, NetScaler, Xen Server, and Workflow Studio. Of course, this means you have to use each of these components to build your own cloud, and they all cost money. Not to mention the fact that there’s no way to swap in and out the different components, that I can find at least.
I’ll update more on costs and other information as Citrix gets back to me.
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