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 ...

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.

OpenStack has grabbed a lot of headlines recently, but competing cloud management platform CloudStack made some news of its own this week with the project releasing its first open source code as part ...

Citrix is giving its cloud deployment platform an Apache license, marking a migration away from the evolving OpenStack project and an embrace of Amazon Web Services offerings. OpenStack supporters ...

Citrix has parted ways with OpenStack -- the increasingly popular open source project for building Amazon-like "infrastructure clouds" -- moving its CloudStack platform to the Apache Software ...

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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.

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 ...

The battle between competing cloud-computing standards has caused a rupture in the open-cloud movement. Citrix, one of the primary cloud vendors, has discontinued contributing software projects to ...

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 ...

Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most open of them all? In the battle for who will become the most used open source cloud platform CloudStack has just hit a major milestone. In an announcement ...

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 ...