Adding new functionality and strengthening its OpenCloud infrastructure platform for cloud computing providers, Citrix has acquired cloud virtualization management vendor VMLogix.
The deal will help cloud providers offer infrastructure services that extend from pre-production and quality assurance, to staging, deployment and business continuity.
Citrix said the VMLogix acquisition will also let Citrix add intuitive, self-service interface to its XenServer virtualization platform to allow users to access and manage their own virtual computing resources in an on-premise private cloud environment similar to how they set up virtual services in large public clouds like Amazon or Rackspace.
According to Citrix, the VMLogix purchase will add virtual lifecycle automation and self-service capabilities that support all leading virtualization platforms and make it easier to build, share and deploy production-like environments on-demand in both private and public clouds, and migrate virtual workloads between production stages with a mouse click. Cloud providers can now give users self-service access to a single pool of computing resources.
Along with the VMLogix buy, Citrix has also revealed plans to bulk up its OpenCloud platform to include enhanced networking and interoperability, including the ability for customers to manage a mix of public and private cloud workloads from a single management console, whether from a single provider or across different cloud providers.
