Citrix Enables Anything-as-a-Service with CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0

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Citrix Enables Anything-as-a-Service with CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0

Cloud Services Delivery Platform Brings Self-Service IT to Enterprise and Service Provider Clouds


SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Citrix today announced availability of CloudPortal™ Business Manager 2.0, a cloud services delivery platform that enables enterprises and service providers to unify the commerce, user management, provisioning and operational aspects of a cloud into a single cloud interface for delivering anything as a service (XaaS). CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0 allows cloud builders to transform general purpose cloud infrastructures into consumable business services, shifting the role of IT from gatekeeper to strategic cloud services broker by enabling an agile IT-as-a-Service model. Today's news further expands the Citrix vision for helping businesses of all types and sizes build clouds the way the world's most successful clouds are built.

Operating a cloud as a business, internally or externally, can be a difficult task without the right set of tools to connect cloud services to business operations and end-users. For today's cloud architects, building infrastructures to meet elasticity and resource pooling requirements of the cloud is already well-defined - the challenge has been delivering cloud services in a meaningful and accessible way to all users,technical and non-technical.

With CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0, businesses can move their cloud services strategy beyond Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to include applications, workloads and services with a powerful platform for metering, managing and delivering them to users via a simple, self-service catalog. Open and extensible, administrators can also leverage the newly available SDKs and APIs for CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0 to offer best-of-breed third-party or in-house cloud services that seamlessly integrate with existing business and operations systems.

What is New?

New key features of CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0 include:

  • Custom Cloud Services Catalog - Create a custom catalog of services including IaaS, cloud, 3rd party, value-add and IT services that are delivered to users through a simple, self-service interface.

  • Extensible Platform - Leverage the partner ecosystem and newly available SDKs and APIs to seamlessly deliver any service (IaaS, PaaS, storage, etc.) while broadening the portfolio of services to differentiate and increase the value of the cloud.

  • Complete Cloud Visibility - Give users a single, comprehensive view of their cloud services, including availability, system health, performance, account status, utilization, billing, helpdesk and alerts.

  • Metering and Monitoring - Track service usage with real-time reports and proactively monitor system health with built-in alerts. Generate customized reports for current and historical activity with drill-down analytics.

  • Workflow Approvals - Define workflow rules for new user activation and service provisioning to ensure departmental requirements and budget approvals are met.

Quotes

Sameer Dholakia, Group VP and GM, Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix

"Designed in close partnership with Citrix CloudPlatform customers around the world, CloudPortal Business Manager is empowering cloud builders to integrate offerings into their existing business operations and ensure a seamless end-user self-service experience. As many Citrix cloud builders look beyond IaaS, CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0 provides them the open architecture they need as they plan migrations to complete IT-as-a-Service offerings."

Mark Goros, CEO, Caringo

"The demand for enterprise IT departments and service providers to introduce new managed services has never been greater. Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager delivers a solution that allows providers to rapidly deploy new services which their customers can easily select, purchase and use. Caringo is pleased to have integrated our enterprise class object storage with CloudPortal Business Manager and worked closely with Citrix to ensure organizations can provide a highly scalable and easy to manage cloud storage service with just a few clicks. The combined solution radically simplifies cloud storage deployment, and enables organizations to leverage the same metering and user management systems as their other cloud services."

Jay Desai, VP, Product Management, Cloudian

"Citrix and Cloudian share a common commitment to making it easy for any enterprise or service provider to deploy powerful, cost-effective clouds. The Cloudian Storage Platform is already fully integrated with Citrix CloudPlatform, enabling seamless deployment of S3-compatible cloud storage quickly and cost-effectively, as well as offering secondary storage. Now, with our upcoming integration with CloudPortal Business Manager, we are bringing IT-as-a-service and Storage-as-a-Utility one step closer to being realities."

Craig McElroy, Chief Technology Officer, Contegix

"The self-service interface and granular account management that CloudPortal Business Manager provides allows us to perfectly balance the administrative control and end-user self-service requirements of our enterprise private cloud customers."

Anthony Lobretto, VP, Engineering and Technology Solutions, DBR360

"Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0 gives us the operational control we need to deliver self-service cloud continuity offerings beyond IaaS. The new CloudService SDK enables us to deliver a custom set of differentiated services that provides enterprises complete control of their computing resources to support their mission critical applications."

Simon Withers, VP, Global Cloud Product, SunGard Availability Services

"SunGard Availability Services delivers a suite of Enterprise Cloud Services, which includes the recent release of our public cloud service powered by Apache CloudStack in Europe. With this recent addition of public cloud services in partnership with Citrix, SunGard Availability Services provides customers access to our public cloud customer portal delivering a customized set of public cloud services via Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager. The open design of the CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0 platform provides SunGard Availability Services with even greater flexibility to enhance our public cloud interface and best meet our customer's needs."

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Citrix (NAS: CTXS) is the cloud computing company that enables mobile workstyles - empowering people to work and collaborate from anywhere, accessing apps and data on any of the latest devices, as easily as they would in their own office - simply and securely. Citrix cloud computing solutions help IT and service providers build both private and public clouds - leveraging virtualization and networking technologies to deliver high-performance, elastic and cost-effective services for mobile workstyles. With market leading solutions for mobility, desktop virtualization, cloud networking, cloud platforms, collaboration, and data sharing, Citrix helps organizations of all sizes achieve the kind of speed and agility necessary to succeed in an increasingly mobile and dynamic world. Citrix products are in use at more than 260,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Annual revenue in 2012 was $2.59 billion.

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