Tag Archives: Citrix

March 27, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Citrix CloudPortal – Enabling Services Providers to Build Out Broad Portfolios

By Ben Kepes

The ~aaS (as a service) acronym must be the most overdone three letters in technology – not satisfied with the main three divisions – IaaS, PaaS and SaaS – there are a plethora of other acronyms as well XaaS, DBaaS, BaaS etc. Sometimes there is justification for coning another term

Tagged Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, netsuite, Platform as a service, Software as a Service, Software development kit, SunGard Availability Services |

March 22, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

CloudStack Graduates to an Apache Top Level Project

By Ben Kepes

Almost a year ago Citrix scored a coup when it’s CloudStack product (which itself was formerly the cloud operating system known as cloud.com) was elevated to the cloud platform of the Apache foundation. It was all the more interesting sine Cloud.com were founding members of OpenStack and the war of

Tagged Apache foundation, Citrix, Cloud.com, CloudStack, Dell, IBM, OpenStack, Peder Ulander |

September 10, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Citrix Acquires Beetil – Great Result for the Wellington Heroes!

By Ben Kepes

The web-based helpdesk space is pretty busy – but while big names like Zendesk and Assistly (now help.com desk.com) get most of the attention, a little battler from Wellington, New Zealand has been quietly building out its product. That commitment has paid off with the announcement today that Beetil is

Tagged Assistly, beetil, Calif, Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, Dan Lee, Wellington, zendesk |

April 11, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Podio Acquired by Citrix

By Ben Kepes

Short and sweet since I’ve been awake for almost 24 hours. News just to hand that Citrix has acquired Podio (much more on them here) for an undisclosed sum. Citrix is promising that nothing will change for this most innovative of companies and I certainly hope that’s true – Podio

Tagged Citrix, Citrix Systems, Podio |

April 10, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

HP Moves its Public Cloud Into Publicly Available Beta

By Ben Kepes

Since the announcement last week that Citrix would be moving it’s CloudStack product to Apache, some of the move vociferous support for OpenStack has come from HP, a company that is an active member of OpenStack and has a private beta offering built on top of OpenStack out in the

Tagged amazon web services, Apache, Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, CloudStack, hp, OpenStack, Software release life cycle |

April 3, 2012 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Citrix Scores a Coup–CloudStack to Become Cloud Platform of the Apache Foundation

By Ben Kepes

[Addendum - I knew about this announcement a week ago. Out of respect for those who briefed me on it under embargo I have decided to hold to the embargo despite others decisions not to do so. Personally I feel that breaking embargos is bad form at best, unethical at

Tagged amazon, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, amazon web services, Apache foundation, AWS, Citrix, CloudStack, OpenStack, Peder Ulander, rackspace, VMware |

November 3, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

enStratus–Big Names, Big Money

By Ben Kepes

News yesterday that cloud governance and management vendor enStratus (more on them here) has raised a cool $4.5M in a funding round that includes El Dorado ventures. The SEC filing is for an initial $3.5M but reliable sources tell me the balance of $1M is going to come soon. The news

Tagged Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, enStratus, George Reese, James Urquhart, John Willis, OpenStack |

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.