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A Closer Look at Cloud.com

Posted By Rich Miller On July 12, 2011 @ 10:16 am In Data Center Videos | 2 Comments

Citrix announced earlier today that it will acquire Cloud.com [1]. What exactly is Cloud.com [2] and what does it do? Cloud.com offers an open source cloud platform used primarily by service providers (including Go Daddy) to quickly build and deploy cloud platforms, allowing them to offer in-house services to cloud-curious customers, rather than seeing them depart for Amazon. Last month we spoke with Cloud.com Chief Marketing Officer Peder Ulander, who provides an overview of the company’s technology and business in this video.

For more on emerging cloud technologies, see our Cloud Computing Channel [3]. For additional videos, check out our DCK video archive [4] and the Data Center Videos [5]channel on YouTube.

About Rich Miller [6]

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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[1] acquire Cloud.com: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/07/12/citrix-systems-acquires-cloud-com/

[2] Cloud.com: http://www.cloud.com

[3] Cloud Computing Channel: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/category/cloud-computing/

[4] DCK video archive: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/category/archives/data_center_videos-index.html

[5] Data Center Videos : http://www.youtube.com/user/DataCenterVideos

[6] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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