There have been a few very notable highlights this week from the cloud industry, including a number of product launches and other developments.
OpenLogic finally rolled out CloudSwing yesterday, an open PaaS that aims to differentiate itself from competitors by offering fully customizable stacks. CloudSwing is largely based on open-source software, meaning that customers can modify them and even add proprietary components. It also means the platform is completely vendor-agnostic.
Virtualization software maker Citrix is another company that had a big launch event this week. In addition to acquiring App-DNA, the company unveiled a whole line-up of new products that spans its entire portfolio. Among them is NetScaler CloudConnector for CDN, a virtualization-optimized delivery fabric that’s designed to cut bandwidth consumption and boost app response time. The new NetScaler offering comes alongside CloudBridge, a product that simplifies the process of tapping cloud compute power offered by Citrix-certified providers.
Some of the other offerings Citrix announced are targeting cloud service providers in particular, a rather large and rapidly-expanding market. The latest news from here comes from Dropbox, which launched an enterprise version of its cloud storage and collaboration service called Dropbox for Teams (a few months after competitor Box launched a similar product). The company is fresh off a $250M funding round and is investing a sizable portion of the new capital in R&D.
Cloud services have become equally appealing to enterprises and consumers, and bigger players are also shifting their focus towards obtaining market share in this industry. Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba’s partnership is the latest example of that. HP ePrint Enterprise is now available from US. Toshiba America Business Solutions. Customers can use ePrint Enterprise to print documents from their handsets at a local ePrint location that will show up on their GPS.
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