As if the number of players leveraging open source tools for cloud computing wasn’t getting diverse enough, Citrix has announced a new, commercial cloud platform called Project Olympus, which is based on OpenStack. According to the announcement: Project Olympus is “a groundbreaking new cloud infrastructure product based on the popular OpenStack project. By leveraging OpenStack, Project Olympus inherits all the collective experience and innovation of hundreds of experienced open source cloud developers – and a rapidly growing list of more than 60 supporting commercial hardware and software vendors. Without a doubt, Project Olympus will compete closely with open source-focused cloud platforms from players ranging from VMware to Red Hat.
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