September 16, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – 3Tera (http://www.3tera.com) and Citrix (http://www.citrix.com/) have partnered on a Cloud Computing venture, it was announced recently. 3Tera, which bills itself as the “leading innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services”, will work with Citrix Systems, Inc. to establish “enterprise grade cloud computing solutions” that will be available to “customers of all sizes”.
The companies will provide solutions in external hosted clouds, or as a platform that can be deployed in corporate data centers. Combining the Citrix Cloud Center™ (C3) solution with 3Tera’s AppLogic™ Cloud Computing Platform, the companies are “elevating the benefits of virtualization to a new level – from physical servers and virtual machines to entire virtual data centers and applications running in the cloud”.
“With the introduction of Citrix Cloud Center (C3), Citrix offers a solution to manage the information technology infrastructure of next generation data centers,” said AJ Jennings, Vice President of Business Development at Citrix Systems. “We carefully chose 3Tera to be one of our first strategic partners for C3 because of their deep experience offering a full and open cloud computing platform for running multi-tier applications in a massively scalable global cloud.”
According to the companies, its offerings provide customers with a range of benefits. Particularly, the solution is an “OS agnostic platform” providing support for Linux, Solaris and Windows. “As cloud computing moves from early adopters to mainstream users, new customers are demanding enterprise levels of reliability, support and control. Our Cloudware architecture allows us to work with Citrix to incorporate commercial, industrial strength virtualization into AppLogic,” said Barry X Lynn, Chairman and CEO, 3Tera. “Adding XenServer Cloud Edition to our application packaging technology, global cloud presence, and disaster recovery appliances creates the first open cloud computing platform ready for mission critical applications.”
