VP, Cloud Engineering at Citrix

November 21st, 2013

Help Me Help YouHow Should Citrix Best Work with CloudStack?

Steve Wilson - @virtualsteve

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Agenda

• A little bit about my background

• What does Citrix really do?

• Why the heck is Citrix so committed to CloudStack?

• About the CloudPlatform Team

• Citrix and Apache

Who is this Steve guy anyway?Just so you know who you’re working with

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Early Work Years

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Java, Java, Java

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Utility Computing, Virtualization & Cloud

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Guitar

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Martial Arts

Why is Citrix Here?

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Citrix Enables Mobile Work Styles

http://youtu.be/X2OQehB7kHs

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CloudPlatforms

CloudNetworking

DataSharing

SocialCollaboration

MobilePlatforms

DesktopVirtualizationCloud solutions to enable mobile workstyles

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Mobile &Desktop

55%

21% 24%

Network& Cloud

Collaboration& Data

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What Does CloudPlatform do for Citrix?

• Standalone Businessᵒ Service Providersᵒ Enterprisesᵒ Providing the back-end to the mobile workforce

• Cloudifying the Desktopᵒ Better deployments for in-house XenApp/XenDesktop customersᵒ Enabling public clouds to deliver on-demand desktops

• Driving into new markets (e.g. co-working with NetScaler team)

• Increasingly used by our in-house SaaS division

About the CloudPlatform Team

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Santa Clara

HyderabadBangalore

• Architects• Alex• Chiradeep• Darren

Citrix and ApacheDiscussion

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Citrix as a Community Member

• What are we doing well?

• What should we be doing differently?

• Can we be more transparent with our needs to the community?

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Release Planning and Timing

• Citrix has a large, commercial dependency on CloudStack

• We want to stay in sync with the community, but have other forces driving us as well

• Suggestions for how we best align CloudStack and CloudPlatform?

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Cloudstack.next

• What are your priorities?

• What does it mean to you?

• How do we plan for it?

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My Areas of Interest for Cloudstack.next

• Hackability!!!

• Easy maintenance

• Massive Scale

• Adopting the latest cloud technologies

Work better. Live better.