Info-Tech evaluated nine competitors in the Cloud Management market and rated Citrix CloudPlatform as a Champion in the marketplace, saying it "offers flexible hypervisor and hardware deployment options with the support of a mature vendor and a strong open source community."

Citrix CloudPlatform End User Licensing Agreement

Corporate product brochure for CloudPlatform

Detailed matrix of Citrix CloudPlatform features and descriptions

This solution brief discusses how cloud providers can deliver profitable, differentiated cloud services with the proven, industry leading Citrix CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack.

This whitepaper tells the success stories of Citrix customers that are recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Datapipe, SoftLayer and Tata Communications are featured.

Learn about the three products at the core of the Citrix Cloud Solution: XenServer, CloudPlatform and CloudPortal Business Manager. The paper discusses each of these products separately as well as why you should run them all together when building your cloud environment.

To fully seize the cloud computing opportunity, service providers must be prepared for shifts in industry adoption and application readiness as the market matures. This paper discusses how CloudPlatform enables service providers to deliver distributed workloads to their end users as well as provide value added services to distinguish them in the marketplace.

This white paper talks about the top five misconceptions about cloud and the facts behind the myths.

Learn how to architect your CloudPlatform Cloud for the Enterprise, enabling support for both traditional and cloud-era workloads.

Citrix and Cisco let organizations rapidly and easily build, deploy, and manage new clouds, connect to existing cloud services, and deliver unparalleled cloud services with the best scalability, reliability, and security.

This document is intended to offer high-level planning and architectural guidance, as opposed to detailed installation procedures, for medium to large-scale production deployments.

Cloud computing is introducing new demands on application delivery controllers or load balancers. Cloud-scale performance, scalability, elasticity and multi-tenancy are some of the requirements that load balancers need to provide to support the migration to cloud computing environments. Learn how NetScaler helps enterprises achieve cloud computing benefits.

Consumeriztion and cloud computing are changing IT's responsibility from "buying and building" apps and infrastructure to "aggregating and orchestrating" a variety of cloud-based services. This whitepaper discusses how this will impact application delivery infrastructure, and the new functionality required to successfully deliver services from the cloud.

Network and datacenter virtualization are driving consolidation across the entire IT infrastructure. However, consolidation can't come at the expense of performance or SLA commitments. This paper discusses how NetScaler physical and virtual appliances enable IT organizations to virtualize and consolidate without compromise.

This whitepaper discusses how Citrix CloudStack is leading the revolution in cloud computing by building on established foundations, like virtualization and service management, while transforming the way that enterprises and service providers are building and deploying new IT services.

2011 Cloud Computing Outlook report was based on a survey conducted by CloudStack and its partners in the second quarter of 2011 to determine cloud computing usage trends among IT professionals. The results are collated from 521 responses as to their usage and preferences for virtualization and cloud computing technologies.