Citrix has pushed out a cloud solution called Citrix C3 Lab so its followers can use Amazon's EC2 and S3 as part of their standard technology infrastructure and prototype cloud projects.
Citrix says C3 Lab is the first of several ways it plans to leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Citrix dreamed up Citrix Cloud Center (C3) last year. It's a bunch of Citrix gear packaged and marketed to the cloud service provider market. This week it added XenApp and XenDesktop so service providers can deliver Windows applications and desktops as a service.
C3 Lab is supposed to provide an inexpensive, preconfigured environment that starts with access to Citrix XenApp alongside key Citrix C3 technologies such as Citrix Access Gateway and Citrix Repeater.
Users will be able to test application compatibility and staging and gain experience of the AWS cloud. Other C3 products and scenarios are supposed to be added over time.
The C3 Lab will be made available for public use as a set of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in EC2.
The only charges will be Amazon's.
XenServer, a key component of C3, will soon be enhanced with a new distributed virtual switch add-on that Citrix say will enable secure, multi-tenant, highly scalable public clouds. The switch will partition network traffic on a per-application basis, with resource and security guarantees, and offer full visibility into and control over inter-VM traffic both within a server and virtual network overlay.
A technological preview should be available for a free download on June 1.
At the same time a partner program will kick in designed to give hosted service providers the "right to use" Citrix products as the underpinning of their delivery infrastructure along with flexible monthly "active subscriber" pricing and licensing.
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