Top Global Brands Adopt Citrix CloudPlatform to Meet Scale, Time to Value and Cost Requirements
Citrix today announced that leading companies across key industries are embracing Citrix CloudPlatform™ powered by Apache CloudStack
to run their cloud environments. With more than 250 customer
deployments to date, Citrix CloudPlatform cloud infrastructure platform
is empowering top brands to transform their on-premise IT
infrastructures into agile and efficient clouds, and provide
application-centric cloud orchestration for any workload.
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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Citrix CloudPlatform gives our
enterprise customers an immediate return on investment by providing
greater operational flexibility, choice and efficiency and drastically
reducing their operational expenses. The challenges that our customers
are solving with Citrix CloudPlatform highlight Citrix leadership in
cloud computing deployments and the momentum for open source solutions
as the most viable path to cloud computing.
- Sameer Dholakia
Group Vice President and GM, Cloud Platforms Group
Citrix
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