Today, Citrix announced that NetScaler, the leading networking solution
from Citrix, is now certified to run on the Mirantis
OpenStack distribution. This marks the first integration that Citrix
has made with an OpenStack distribution for Citrix technologies. The
cross-certification of NetScaler comes as part of the Mirantis
Unlocked partner program, which enables both companies to work
together to provide interoperability, enterprise readiness and best of
breed technologies for enterprise customers. The joint solution gives
customers access to a broader portfolio of products to dramatically
increase performance and scale for Mirantis OpenStack deployments. In
addition, Mirantis will work with Citrix to integrate the deployment of
XenServer, the company’s commercial virtualization platform based on the
open-source Xen Project Hypervisor, through the OpenStack Fuel
installer, which dramatically simplifies and accelerates the deployment
of Mirantis OpenStack and core technologies to deploy cloud
infrastructure. Citrix will also cross-certify XenServer with Mirantis
OpenStack later this year.
Customers are increasingly faced with the challenge of scaling their
OpenStack deployments and looking for production-grade infrastructure
that supports the demands of their business. NetScaler and XenServer
solutions from Citrix are used as core infrastructure for some of the
largest cloud infrastructure providers worldwide, and this announcement
brings the power of these products to customers choosing to build their
clouds on OpenStack. With the integration with Mirantis OpenStack,
customers will have access to leading industry-proven software defined
datacenter products to deploy and scale their deployments.
Citrix NetScaler Control Center has been specifically designed to
natively integrate with OpenStack and is certified to work with Mirantis
OpenStack today. NetScaler today offers the broadest choice of form
factors - from hardware to virtual appliances - and complex deployment
methods including clustering deployments for a single management plane.
NetScaler Control Center allows the full range of deployment methods
natively integrated with OpenStack. Customers can now deploy complex
workloads on their clouds, through the use native OpenStack APIs to
drive Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS), using the rich ADC
capabilities of NetScaler for workload availability, security,
scalability, and performance. Through the combination of OpenStack and
NetScaler with Tri-Scale technology for scaling up, in and out, clouds
are able to provide elasticity across all aspects of their
infrastructure.
XenServer is a crucial piece of this cloud infrastructure, running
mission-critical workloads for some of the world’s largest communication
service providers, cloud service providers and enterprises. XenServer
offers a full 64-bit kernel architecture that allows customers to take
advantage of the latest hardware and OS platforms, and supports
enterprise-grade networking, storage and workload management. With its
next-generation architecture supporting both enterprise-grade and
carrier-grade features, XenServer is the most comprehensive,
cost-effective and open virtualization platform choice for enterprises
and service providers. Citrix recently announced
XenServer 6.5 SP1 which features increased scalability, improved 3D
graphics acceleration and management of Docker containers.
CloudOps
has been building and operating clouds for service providers and
enterprises with Citrix technology including Netscaler and XenServer
since 2008, including the regional Canadian cloud IaaS "cloud.ca"
With market demand for OpenStack growing fast, CloudOps has partnered
with Mirantis, endorsing their "pure play OpenStack" focus.
Quotes
Ian Rae, Founder and CEO at CloudOps
"We are very excited that two of our key technology partners, Citrix and
Mirantis, are working together to ensure highly functional and
supportable solutions based on OpenStack, Netscaler and XenServer. Cloud
operations at scale are very challenging and this certification will
provide both improved functional integration while lowering operational
risk for service providers and customers."
Nand Mulchandani, Vice President, Market Development, Delivery
Networks at Citrix
“Through our relationship with Mirantis, Citrix ensures that NetScaler
and XenServer, that already power some of the largest cloud
infrastructure systems in the world, will be certified and integrated
with Mirantis OpenStack and will give customers a choice of the best
infrastructure available to develop their cloud.”
Boris Renski, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Mirantis
“Many enterprises choose OpenStack because it brings them choice and
flexibility in how they build their on-premise clouds. Citrix’s
certification of NetScaler and XenServer through Mirantis Unlocked is an
important step in this direction. Citrix customers can continue their
cloud transformation journey by tapping into the agility and scalability
of OpenStack.”
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workplace, uniting virtualization, mobility management, networking and
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About Mirantis
Mirantis is the pure play OpenStack company. Mirantis delivers all the software,
services,
training
and support needed for running OpenStack. More customers rely on
Mirantis than any other company to get to production deployment of
OpenStack at scale. Mirantis is among the top three companies worldwide
in contributing open source software to OpenStack, and has helped build
and deploy some of the largest OpenStack clouds at companies such as
Cisco, Comcast, Ericsson, Expedia, Workday, NASA, Samsung and Symantec.
Mirantis is venture-backed by Insight Venture Partners, August Capital,
Ericsson, Intel Capital, Sapphire Ventures and WestSummit Capital, with
headquarters in Mountain View, California.
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