Cloud.com
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Cloud.com is a venture-backed startup based out of Cupertino that develops an open source cloud orchestration software product for the implementation of public and private cloud computing
environments. Their software, CloudStack, is designed to make it easier for Service Providers and Enterprises to build, manage and deploy IaaS offerings similar to Amazon EC2 and S3
. CloudStack is available in three editions: the Enterprise Edition, the Service Provider Edition and the open-source Community Edition. The company changed its name from VMOps to Cloud.com on May 4, 2010 when it emerged from stealth mode.
In July 2011, Cloud.com was acquired by Citrix Systems
.
(Infrastructure as a Service) style private, public and hybrid clouds; technologies can be deployed on-premise or as hosted cloud services. The platform provides an AJAX
based interface that lets users access computing infrastructure resources (machines, network, and storage) available in private and public cloud services.
Cloud.com includes these features:
, Shannon Williams, Alex Huang, Will Chan, and Chiradeep Vittal in 2008. The company has raised a total of $17.6M in venture funding from Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Nexus Ventures. In May 2010 the company formally launched as Cloud.com citing customers like McAfee
and Tata Communications
.
In July 2010, Cloud.com became one of the founding members of OpenStack
In October 2010, Cloud.com announced a partnership with Microsoft to develop the code to provide integration and support of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V to the OpenStack project.
In July 2011, Cloud.com was acquired by Citrix
CloudStack Community Edition (CE) is an open sourced IaaS software platform available under the GNU General Public License license, which enables users to build, manage and deploy compute cloud environments. The community edition is based on the latest features and bits that the Cloud.com team of engineers is working on. There are weekly builds as well as native sources for developers, users and contributors to have access to.
CloudStack Enterprise Edition
CloudStack 2.0 for Enterprises provides an integrated software solution to extend infrastructure investment into a highly scalable, on-premise cloud computing environment for enterprises.
CloudStack Service Provider Edition
CloudStack Service Provider Edition (SPE) offers service providers a management software and infrastructure technology to host their own public computing cloud. Core management functions include end-user self administration, service offering management, cloud administration, and billing and reporting.
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
environments. Their software, CloudStack, is designed to make it easier for Service Providers and Enterprises to build, manage and deploy IaaS offerings similar to Amazon EC2 and S3
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides storage through web services interfaces...
. CloudStack is available in three editions: the Enterprise Edition, the Service Provider Edition and the open-source Community Edition. The company changed its name from VMOps to Cloud.com on May 4, 2010 when it emerged from stealth mode.
In July 2011, Cloud.com was acquired by Citrix Systems
Citrix Systems
Citrix Systems, Inc. is a multinational corporation founded in 1989, that provides server and desktop virtualization, networking, software-as-a-service , and cloud computing technologies, including Xen open source products....
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Features
Cloud.com implements IaaSIAAS
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(Infrastructure as a Service) style private, public and hybrid clouds; technologies can be deployed on-premise or as hosted cloud services. The platform provides an AJAX
Ajax
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based interface that lets users access computing infrastructure resources (machines, network, and storage) available in private and public cloud services.
Cloud.com includes these features:
- Multiple HypervisorHypervisorIn computing, a hypervisor, also called virtual machine manager , is one of many hardware virtualization techniques that allow multiple operating systems, termed guests, to run concurrently on a host computer. It is so named because it is conceptually one level higher than a supervisory program...
support from a single management pane - Support for Common Cloud APIs like Amazon Web Services API, the OpenStack API and the VMware vCloud API
- Support for Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs)Virtual machineA virtual machine is a "completely isolated guest operating system installation within a normal host operating system". Modern virtual machines are implemented with either software emulation or hardware virtualization or both together.-VM Definitions:A virtual machine is a software...
. - Multi-tenant support for both secure internal cloud deployments as well as service provider environments
- Elastic IPs and Security Groups
- Delegated administration with support for users and groups management
- Billing and chargeback integration
- On-demand Virtual Datacenter Hosting
- Integrated Cloud templates and libraries
- In-browser console access
- Virtual Machine snapshots and rollback
- Virtual resource management and isolation
History
Originally known as VMOps, Cloud.com was founded by Sheng LiangSheng Liang
Sheng Liang was the lead developer on the original Java Virtual Machine team at Sun Microsystems, Inc.. He is currently the chief technology officer of the Cloud Platforms groups at Citrix Systems after their acquisition of Cloud.com, where he was co-founder and chief executive officer and founder...
, Shannon Williams, Alex Huang, Will Chan, and Chiradeep Vittal in 2008. The company has raised a total of $17.6M in venture funding from Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Nexus Ventures. In May 2010 the company formally launched as Cloud.com citing customers like McAfee
McAfee
McAfee, Inc. is a computer security company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. It markets software and services to home users, businesses and the public sector. On August 19, 2010, electronics company Intel agreed to purchase McAfee for $7.68 billion...
and Tata Communications
Tata Communications
Tata Communications Limited ) is a telecommunications company located in Mumbai. They own a submarine cable network, a Tier-1 IP network, and also rent data center and colocation space. They operate India's largest data center in Pune...
.
In July 2010, Cloud.com became one of the founding members of OpenStack
OpenStack
OpenStack is an IaaS cloud computing project by Rackspace Cloud and NASA. Currently more than 120 companies have joined the project among which are Citrix Systems, Dell, AMD, Intel, Canonical, SUSE Linux, HP, and Cisco...
In October 2010, Cloud.com announced a partnership with Microsoft to develop the code to provide integration and support of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V to the OpenStack project.
In July 2011, Cloud.com was acquired by Citrix
Products
CloudStack Community EditionCloudStack Community Edition (CE) is an open sourced IaaS software platform available under the GNU General Public License license, which enables users to build, manage and deploy compute cloud environments. The community edition is based on the latest features and bits that the Cloud.com team of engineers is working on. There are weekly builds as well as native sources for developers, users and contributors to have access to.
CloudStack Enterprise Edition
CloudStack 2.0 for Enterprises provides an integrated software solution to extend infrastructure investment into a highly scalable, on-premise cloud computing environment for enterprises.
CloudStack Service Provider Edition
CloudStack Service Provider Edition (SPE) offers service providers a management software and infrastructure technology to host their own public computing cloud. Core management functions include end-user self administration, service offering management, cloud administration, and billing and reporting.
See also
- Amazon EC2
- Cloud computingCloud computingCloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
- Cloud computing comparisonCloud computing comparison-General information:-Supported Hosts:-Features:...
- OpenStackOpenStackOpenStack is an IaaS cloud computing project by Rackspace Cloud and NASA. Currently more than 120 companies have joined the project among which are Citrix Systems, Dell, AMD, Intel, Canonical, SUSE Linux, HP, and Cisco...
- Citrix Cloud offerings