"Last year, stepping up what is already fierce competition in the race to provide cloud computing platform infrastructure, Citrix Systems announced that it had completed the acquisition of Cloud.com. Cloud.com had many notable customers who favored its cloud stack infrastructure, which is centered on OpenStack, including GoDaddy and Zynga. Now Citrix is accelerating its focus on the cloud, and likely competing directly with Amazon and VMware, with its announcement of CloudStack 3, the first release of the open source cloud platform under the Citrix brand."

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