{"id":652,"date":"2011-05-11T13:21:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T20:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2011-05-12T09:18:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T16:18:43","slug":"interview-with-citrix-cto-simon-crosby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/interview-with-citrix-cto-simon-crosby\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Citrix CTO Simon Crosby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worthwhile<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/cloud-computing\/platform\/229403200\"> InformationWeek interview<\/a>. Choice quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>InformationWeek:<\/strong><\/em> Citrix  CEO Mark Templeton described four power centers that seem to be  emerging in the cloud: Amazon\/Xen, VMware, Microsoft Azure, and  OpenStack. Do you agree with that assessment, and would you modify it in  any way? <em><strong>Crosby:<\/strong><\/em> I think it&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>.. VMware&#8217;s opportunity is to displace Microsoft, BMC, HP, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; If there were 50 vendors going on about IaaS, the  clutter would be so bad that the incumbent would walk away with it all. &#8230; OpenStack is to align the  industry around a vehicle to meet commercial needs but also move faster  to deliver core components that people are fighting around that has no  long-term commercial value.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>InformationWeek:<\/strong><\/em> Do IT professionals have a clear idea of what the cloud is at this point?<strong><em> Crosby<\/em>:<\/strong> I don&#8217;t think general IT has a clear idea of cloud and what it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worthwhile InformationWeek interview. Choice quotes: InformationWeek: Citrix CEO Mark Templeton described four power centers that seem to be emerging in the cloud: Amazon\/Xen, VMware, Microsoft Azure, and OpenStack. Do you agree with that assessment, and would you modify it in any way? Crosby: I think it&#8217;s right. .. VMware&#8217;s opportunity is to displace Microsoft, BMC,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,162],"tags":[154,512,119,152,161],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-link","tag-citrix","tag-cloud","tag-openstack","tag-vmware","tag-xen","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}