Citrix released new tools this week to help cloud hosting providers sell business-oriented cloud services such as DR and compliance to IT shops. With the battle between Citrix cloud hosting, this will stir up emotions between VMware and open-source Xen for the cloud hosting market.
Rackspace, said his company was moving off Xen and over to XenServer for better support. Rackspace is the second largest cloud provider after Amazon Web Services. AWS still runs on Xen. What will this mean for VMware?
“Some people like Ford, some people like Chevy,” said Nathan Day, CTO of hosting company SoftLayer. “When companies move from internal to external services they want to stay with a common solution.” “To be competitive it needs to offer virtual servers at a lower cost than the VMware license allows,” said an attendee who preferred not to be named. Until now Terremark was the poster child for VMware vCloud services, and even took $20 million in funding from VMware to help build out its infrastructure. News that it’s offering a compliance service based on Citrix must smart if you’re one of the investors over at VMware.
