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 ...

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 ...

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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.

This past week Cloud.com released the latest version of its open source Cloud OS, CloudStack. “CloudStack provides a turnkey cloud infrastructure software stack for delivering virtual datacenters as a ...

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 ...

Citrix is turning Cloudstack over to the Apache Software Foundation and aligning closely with Amazon Web Services in a move that will force the very green OpenStack movement to take another look at ...

Citrix turned heads Tuesday when it announced it's contributing the CloudStack cloud management platform it acquired last summer from Cloud.com to the Apache Software Foundation with plans to release ...

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 ...

Rivalry between the two open source options distracts us from the true point of cloud computing: It's the services, stupid It looks like OpenStack won’t be the only open source cloud computing player.