How Citrix OpenCloud works

Make the cloud a seamless extension of your datacenter

Citrix OpenCloud solutions are powered by an open and extensible suite of technologies. These technologies enable a range of solutions, from on boarding application workloads to the cloud, to optimizing application performance, to effectively managing towards enterprise SLAs—all while delivering on the promise of cloud economics, elasticity, and scale. Extensibility and on-demand customization are built into the design of each OpenCloud technology component to address the unique needs of every enterprise. A high degree of interoperability among OpenCloud technology components and third party cloud technologies ensure that there is no lock-in when customers adopt a Citrix solution. Enabling customer choice is a fundamental goal of the underlying technology powering the Citrix OpenCloud platform.

  

Key Citrix OpenCloud technologies
Datacenter Automation

Cloud management services
Management services dramatically simplify deployment and maintenance of a cloud. Service level management, monitoring, reporting, auditing, billing, metering, and self service are essential to make any cloud deployment enterprise class.
Advanced Integration and Management

Cloud migration services
Migration services enable enterprises to move existing virtualized applications into cloud infrastructures automatically, while also keeping the applications intact. By automating this step, the costs and complexities of leveraging the cloud for complex applications are greatly reduced.
High Performance Virtual Infrastructure

Citrix OpenCloud Framework
The Citrix OpenCloud Framework enables IT to rapidly develop and operate enterprise-class policy-driven clouds on an open architecture with a high degree of technology interoperability. Core capabilities include support for multi-tenant orchestration, provisioning, and lifecycle management services.
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High Performance Virtual Infrastructure

Citrix CloudAccess
Citrix CloudAccess delivers single sign-on to web, SaaS, and IaaS-hosted applications to anyone, anywhere, on any application. Authentication is greatly simplified as these applications are provisioned to new and existing users, even when they are relocated to external datacenters.
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High Performance Virtual Infrastructure

Citrix CloudBridge
Citrix CloudBridge brings a cloud-hosted application infrastructure into the enterprise datacenter over a secure and optimized network tunnel. As a result, the application workloads can transparently relocate without forklift network modifications.
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High Performance Virtual Infrastructure

Hosted application and desktop delivery
There is more to cloud solutions than optimally delivering general compute needs. Hosting applications and full Windows® desktops in the cloud provide security, cost, and availability benefits to bring cloud economics to these workloads in traditional datacenter environments.
High Performance Virtual Infrastructure

Edge networking
Edge networking technologies from Citrix include application-aware network switching that can flex with the application while improving the user experience.
High Performance Virtual Infrastructure

Platform virtualization
Citrix virtualization is the foundation of cloud computing. It is what makes the underlying hardware adaptable for migrating applications from the enterprise cloud to the public cloud and back.
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