XenApp + EC2 = Interesting Possibilities

On Thursday, May 13, 2010 Citrix and Amazon announced a pilot program where Citrix’s XenApp application streaming/virtualization product will run on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2.)

This pilot program will allow existing Citrix customers who are also members of Amazon’s Windows Server License Mobility Pilot to move their XenApp licenses from their own data centers to the EC2 cloud.  Moving XenApp to the EC2 cloud could benefit businesses by reducing the number of physical servers required in their data centers as well as having their platform reside in a fully supported environment.   

This pilot program currently does not support Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud, which is designed to bring enterprise-class security to computing resources that run in Amazon’s data centers, but this support is slated to be available at a future date.

This pilot is definitely a huge step forward for cloud computing and will be very interesting to hear about how the program was received.

If anyone is a member of this pilot program, I would love to hear from you.

Regards,

TASCer