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Citrix has abandoned its Olympus OpenStack distribution and will focus instead on its open-source CloudStack operating system, which it has contributed as a project under the Apache Software ...

The nice thing about a conference like GigaOM Structure is that everybody who’s anybody in the cloud shows up. Representatives from just about every major vendor were there to talk about their vision ...

The open-source cloud conflict got started in earnest last week when Citrix, formerly an OpenStack cloud supporter, announced that it was reviving its own CloudStack cloud under the Apache Foundation.

OpenStack — co-founded by Rackspace and NASA in 2010 — certainly has the buzz, what with partnerships with AT&T, HP and IBM, to name a few, all of which have promised to use OpenStack as the base for ...

There is some really bad blood between executives at Rackspace and Citrix and the result is two fragmented open source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) compute platform efforts. Perhaps it's not ...

Virtualization powerhouse Citrix Systems Inc. has become the latest sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation in a major change of direction that could spell the beginning of the end for its homegrown ...

Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most open of them all? In the battle for who will become the most used open source cloud platform CloudStack has just hit a major milestone. In an announcement ...

In the less than two months since Citrix gave its CloudStack software an Apache license, cloud providers are beginning to support the open source model. This week for example Zenoss, which makes ...

The corporate line is that it was a move born of necessity with OpenStack seemingly stuck in a state of awkward adolescence. But we all know that this is probably only part of the story. It's a move ...

Yes, you can build your own version of Amazon's massively popular cloud services. You just have decide which software platforms to start with. On Wednesday, in an effort catch your attention, two ...

Apache CloudStack, software for creating and managing private cloud infrastructures and IaaS generally, is now in its second release — 4.2 — since becoming an Apache Software Foundation (ASF) project.