Top Global Brands Adopt Citrix CloudPlatform to Meet Scale, Time to Value and Cost Requirements

Apache CloudStack cloud orchestration and provisioning software has rapidly become the go-to open source platform for building, managing and delivering highly scalable clouds. As the first commercial version of Apache CloudStack, Citrix CloudPlatform enables businesses to take advantage of a variety of additional key benefits and features including:

• An open, flexible, interoperable and extensible cloud infrastructure framework
• Simple turnkey cloud orchestration and provisioning
• Support for desktop, cloud-native and data center workloads
• Enterprise-class multi-tenancy
• Cloud-native scalability and operations

Citrix CloudPlatform Customers Across the Industry Spectrum

BT, Datacentrix, DU, Globo.com, Interoute Teleommunications, KDDI Corporation, NTT Communications, Zajil Telecom and Zynga are among the organizations around the world deploying Citrix CloudPlatform in a wide range of markets, including telecommunications, media and advertising, and insurance. Examples of how these companies are leveraging Citrix CloudPlatform include:

• BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications services and solutions, serving customers in more than 170 countries. BT developed Cloud Compute as an enhanced service that gives organizations the ability to build powerful ‘pay as you go’ cloud solutions they can access with consistent levels of quality and security wherever they are expanding. BT selected Citrix CloudPlatform because of its open platform, competitive pricing, scalability, multi-hypervisor support and proven performance in large scale cloud deployments.
• Globo.com is the largest mass media group in Latin America and also owns companies in the food industry and the real estate and financial markets. With Citrix CloudPlatform, Globo.com was able to meet the needs of 23 internal development teams across multiple programming languages. With its self-service cloud, Globo.com can offer and track utilization in real time for bundles of IT services used by the internal development teams across multiple vendor technologies.
• Interoute Telecommunications Ltd is a privately held telecommunications company that owns and operates Europe's largest cloud services platform. Interoute needed a more functional platform to expand and improve its IaaS cloud service delivery. With Citrix CloudPlatform, Interoute was able to quickly scale its services.
• KDDI Corporation is the No. 2 telecommunications company in Japan. KDDI needed to diversify services across multiple networks and multiple devices. In addition to its private cloud services, the company was looking to offer public cloud services to its customers. Citrix CloudPlatform provided the openness, flexibility and product capabilities KDDI required, allowing KDDI to handle four to five times the number of new accounts with ease.
• Zajil Telecom is a leading data telecommunications and Internet solutions provider in the Middle East. Zajil wanted to become a leading provider of cloud and managed services, as well as the first telecom in the area to provide the latest cloud and technology services. Citrix CloudPlatform offered Zajil a simple platform, choice of virtualization platform, and the ability to deploy in less than four weeks.