"Citrix is expanding its cloud offerings, with its announcement Monday of the general availability of its Citrix CloudStack 3 open-source cloud platform. When Citrix purchased Cloud.com last summer, the company acquired CloudStack, a Java-based open-source cloud management software .

CloudStack already is in use for more than 85 large production clouds, and CloudStack 3 allows the company to offer what it described as "true Amazon-style clouds to customers of all sizes," with virtual data -center resources via self-service. Current CloudStack customers include Datapipe, Edmunds.com, IDC Frontier, Nokia Research and Zynga."

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