Cloud computing and virtualization are major parcels of the present innovative IT service delivery model.  The complete acquisition of Cloud.com by Citrix Systems spells a deep dive into the open source community.  One of the global leaders in virtual computing solutions is now fulfilling its earlier vow to extend CloudStack infrastructure to VMware and Oracle customers via a project launch that will introduce its commercial frontier to the open source sphere. This move will now certify CloudStack to be 100% FOSS, or Free and Open Source Software.

Former Cloud.com Lead and the New VP of Product Marketing Peter Ulander explains the development within the organization:

“What we bring is a fairly open, robust, high performing cloud platform that competes aggressively with vCloud. By CloudStack as your cloud operating platform, you now have the opportunity to have one of the top cloud platforms already running in your VMware environment, with all of the tools, knowledge, and experience that you know, but you can also mix and match additional virtualization technologies into the platform, so now you can prioritize workloads and budgets around business needs.”

Reports also mentioned that CloudStack platform will run on top of vSphere for free, along with providing the customers to continue performing within the VMware environment or operate in additional hypervisor functions from KVM, Hyper-V, OVM, or XenServer.

Ulander further added that Cloud.com has always been a fan of the product, but back then they have scarce resources to push through, but things took a 360 degrees turn when Citrix came into picture.

“Citrix has always had the fundamental belief that customers want choice in virtualization. Therefore, technologies like XenDesktop and XenApp have always been available on technologies like VMware,” he says.

“In fact, the leading desktop platform on top of VMware is actually from Citrix. At Cloud.com, we were already building this functionality into the product – multi-hypervisor capabilities. But as a 40-person startup with a limited budget, we weren’t able to get the message out as far. Today, Citrix’s biggest message coming in is, ‘We never met a hypervisor we didn’t like.”

Aside from this latest adventure, Citrix has been relatively aggressive in the market this month. It was in mid-August when the company invested in two start-ups to fuel the Citrix Startup Accelerator program and purchased RingCube for desktop virtualization.

This big announcement from the Citrix Systems comes in just in time for the season’s big events: VMworld 2011 this week and Deutsche Bank Securities’ 2011 Technology Conference, that will commence on the 13^th of September.