Citrix OpenCloud Framework Overview

[Monty1]

Citrix Cloud combines its current activities in the so-called OpenCloud Framework. We provide the functionality of the Citrix Cloud Center and its possibilities in detail. Citrix was mainly due to its Terminal Server services known. Which were originally designated as WinFrame, later renamed in the Presentation Server, which then in turn to Citrix XenApp was. Although the products over the years evolved naturally, they are nevertheless remained one: a tool set that is used to Windows to run applications centrally. In today's nomenclature that would be a pure cloud service. The PresentationServer or XenApp runs on a central server. The company Citrix runs its servers in a few central offices, which are distributed the world over. The users of these services are the Citrix employees and partners in the branches. The XenApp thus represent an internal cloud. Citrix makes it one of the early proponents of cloud models, even if they were not then known as such.

[Liliana]

In addition to the internal private cloud a distinction is now above all the public cloud. There are also mixed forms, such as a hybrid cloud. To make a company for all these cloud services fit, Citrix expanded its product and service portfolio. This is now under the term OpenCloud Framework markets. The name says it all: Citrix puts in its open-cloud initiative is open to. These techniques of the company are to be let in custom configurations and application scenarios used without problem. Citrix considers this "openness" as necessary to cover the diverse needs of customers. When customers open the Citrix Cloud designate known players such as Amazon or the number of telecommunication companies. These are used because of the size of the offer, the Citrix solution hardly a pre-configured building blocks. Instead, in these cases a very detailed configuration and adaptation to the specific requirements of its customers make. This is to enable the "Open Cloud character".

[Mrigankasekhar]

The Citrix OpenCloud Framework should, according to the company, the underlying logic for cloud-based delivery service. This includes the rapid deployment, management and control of applications that are sourced from the cloud. Citrix addressed to both the users of cloud services and the service provider , the foundation of the Citrix technology to provide cloud services to do the. Citrix will also promote the development of its framework and operation of private and public (public) Clouds. In addition, the framework supports interoperability with popular Cloud interfaces, and to assure that customers can leverage their existing investment for migrating to the cloud.

[KennedII]

The Citrix OpenCloud Framework enables the development of policy-driven clouds for company based on an open architecture. At the same time it should provide the best possible interoperability of the technologies involved. For this, the Citrix OpenCloud framework, the following functions:

• Policy-based, distributed Cloud control: This includes the possibility of hosting multiple clients with secure, isolated service delivery and granular control of cloud services through the implementation of policies to user, application and infrastructure level.
• Client management: This includes a comprehensive implementation support for multiple users, organizations and businesses, including management roles, and rights groups for different client objects.
• Application Management: This gives Citrix a library of reusable, layered templates for business applications, the basis for the rapid assembly and deployment of the cloud-based services and their lifecycle management forms.
• Management of open facilities: An open architecture for computing, storage and network elements provides flexibility and varied choices.
• Extensible Integration: The RESTful API and modular architecture enables the integration and control of external services providers in the cloud.

Although Citrix to date compared with some competitors provide fewer concrete products, has so completely without appropriate software does the structure of clouds not at Citrix.

[Laramie]

OpenCloud Access includes all those who help and support that are required if companies want to build applications in the cloud access one. A central role in access to any application - not just in the cloud - always takes the user authentication a. Is it even for resources or applications that are not under its own management, the safe and reliable user authentication is mandatory. These requests will simplify Citrix with OpenCloud Access. OpenCloud Access coordinates the identity confirmation and secure dial-up across corporate boundaries. The product allows a simple single sign-on to all known SaaS applications. These include GoToMeeting, NetSuite, Salesforce , web applications hosted within IaaS or private cloud platforms, and internal Web and Windows applications. In these applications, it is the Citrix own services of XenApp , but any other service act. This includes, for example, access to a central SAP application that is hosted in the cloud. OpenCloud Access to this situation and facilitate cross-domain authentication through the use of the existing enterprise infrastructure. Here, the existing control framework is extended. Single-Sign-On allows users to use their primary password for all applications that are accessed by OpenCloud Access. The management of different identities and log-in procedures, which are distributed over a growing number of external applications of time does not apply here. The rights management becomes much easier.