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Citrix CTO On Demanding Clarity From Cloud Vendors: Page 5 of 5

Citrix Systems CTO Simon Crosby sat down with Andrew Conry Murray at Interop 2011 for a candid question-and-answer session on a variety of subjects, including emerging cloud power centers--Citrix is a major player in some. The company is also pushing emerging standards on a variety of fronts, including cloud computing and application performance. Crosby talked about the company's goals for these efforts. He also advised IT to demand more vendor clarity about the cloud.
Andrew Conry-Murray
May 11, 2011

Conry Murray: Do IT professionals have a clear idea of what the cloud is at this point?

Crosby: I don't think general IT has a clear idea of cloud and what it is. It's such a massive shift that every vendor has to be cloud-relevant. So all we vendors are responsible for "clouding" the definition. Cloud to the average IT server person means more automated steps. For many customers I visit, cloud means desktops delivered from a cloud. And then there are folks we work with who are of the Zynga type, where the Zynga cloud has to scale massively and run this monster app at huge scale with incredible performance. All those people have different notions of cloud.

You have to clearly define your goals in terms of what technology ought to deliver to you: change your costs, accelerate delivery, whatever. Then go to vendors and beat up on them to explain it better.

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