Citrix – Open platforms will win cloud race

November 19, 2012 Off By David
Grazed from BusinessTimes.  Author: Amit Roy Choudhury.

OPEN platforms will win in the cloud since they were born out of the innovations and foundations of open source. Unlike previous generations of computing, this cloud computing build-out will be led by technologies that were first proven at scale in large production clouds such Facebook, Zynga, Netflix and Google, then made available to customers of all sizes under an open-source licence.

Sharing his thoughts on this subject, Citrix’ Peder Ulander notes that everyone stands to benefit if they apply cloud computing in the areas where it makes sense…

"Cloud computing can transform every element of IT infrastructure in a business-operating systems, applications, storage, servers, appliances and workforce management – into on-demand service", notes Mr Ulander, who is Citrix’s VP of product marketing for its Cloud Platform Group…

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