“We carefully chose 3Tera to be one of our first strategic partners for C3 because of their deep experience offering a full and open cloud computing platform for running multi-tier applications in a massively scalable global cloud," said AJ Jennings, vice president of business development, Citrix Systems, as Citrix and 3Tera announced a partnership combining the new Citrix Cloud Center (C3) solution with 3Tera’s award winning AppLogic Cloud Computing Platform.

“Adding XenServer Cloud Edition to our application packaging technology, global cloud presence, and disaster recovery appliances creates the first open cloud computing platform ready for mission critical applications,” said Barry X Lynn, Chairman and CEO, 3Tera (pictured). Lynn added:

“As cloud computing moves from early adopters to mainstream users, new customers are demanding enterprise levels of reliability, support and control. Our Cloudware architecture allows us to work with Citrix to incorporate commercial, industrial strength virtualization into AppLogic.”

The partnership with Citrix, Lynn said, will make enterprise grade cloud computing solutions available to customers of all sizes in external hosted clouds, or as a platform that can be deployed in corporate data centers behind customer firewalls.

By combining C3 solution with AppLogic, the companies are elevating the benefits of virtualization to a new level – from physical servers and virtual machines to entire virtual data centers and applications running in the cloud.

The initial focus of the collaboration between the companies will center on the new Citrix XenServer Cloud Edition, a key component of the Citrix C3 product family. 3Tera will also embed XenServer Cloud Edition in future versions of its AppLogic Cloud Computing platform.

3Tera's President & CTO Peter Nickolov is a speaker at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo, an adjunct to the upcoming Virtualization Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA (November 19-21, 2008). Nickolov is part of a star-studded industry lineup of speakers that includes:

The International Cloud Computing Expo 2008 Speaker Faculty Includes:

Jonathan Bryce - Founder at Mosso (Rackspace) When Is The Right Time For Standards?	Omer Trajman - Director of Field Engineering, Vertica Systems Cloud Computing Meets Data Warehousing
Mike Feinberg - SVP, Cloud Infrastructure Group, EMC Trusting the Cloud: Timing and Adoption of Cloud Technologies	Patrick Harr - CEO, Nirvanix Cloud Storage: A Paradigm Shift in IT
Mike Eaton - CEO Cloudworks Marketing A Paradigm Shift	John Janakiraman - CTO, Skytap Cloud Adoption: Deploying Your Existing Applications to the Cloud
Billy Marshall - Founder & CEO, rPath On the Path to Cloud Nirvana	Nati Shalom - CTO, GigaSpaces Getting Ready for the Cloud
Stuart Charlton - Chief Software Architect, Elastra Infrastructure-as-a-Service Model of Early Cloud Computing	Javier Soltero - Co-Founder & CEO, Hyperic Clouds Are No Substitute for Competence
Reuven Cohen - Founder & Chief Technologist, Enomaly The World Wide Cloud: Bridging the Data Center and The Cloud	David Young - Co-Founder & CTO, Joyent The Open Cloud: Building a Customer-Centric Cloud Computer
Thorsten von Eicken - CTO & Founder, RightScale Deploying into the Clouds: Concepts, Benefits, and Experiences	Alan Williamson - Founder, Blog-city.com Walking Freely Among the Clouds
Dr. Rich Wolski - Professor, U.C. Santa Barbara An Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure Designed for Research and Development: Eucalyptus	Songnian Zhou - Co-Founder & CEO, Platform Computing Cloud Computing: Beyond the Buzz
Dave Durkee - Founder, CEO & Technical Director, ENKI Achieving 4 or 5 Nines in the Cloud	Kevin Haar - CEO, Appistry Simplifying Cloud Computing for the Enterprise
Peter Nickolov - President & CTO, 3Tera Solutions for Instant Disaster Recovery in the Cloud	Gordon Jackson - Technical Director, Univa UD Improving the Clouds - Raising the Bar For IT-as-a-Service
Kevin Gardner - Executive Chairman, SOASTA Load Testing: Cloud Computing's 'Killer App'?	John Keagy - Co-Founder CEO, ServePath SaaS in the Cloud
Gerrit Huizenga - Cloud Architect, IBM Private Clouds: Pay Attention to What is Behind the Curtain!	Rachel Chalmers - Research Director, The 451 Group The Storm Cloud of Innovation

High Octane Virtualization Conference 2008 West Speaker Faculty Includes:

Alex Bakman – Founder and CEO of VKernel How to Find and Resolve Capacity Bottlenecks in Virtual Server Environments	Michael Berman – CTO of CatbirdCatbird Virtualization and Compliance
Ken Berryman – VP of Endpoint Virtualization, Symantec Virtualization Power Panel: The Shape of Virtualization To Come	Donato Buccella – CTO of Certeon Preparing Your Enterprise for Virtualization
Joe Fitzgerald – Co-Founder & CEO of ManageIQ Enterprise Virtual Management for Next-Generation IT	Anup K. Ghosh – President & CEO of Secure Command Using Virtualization to Secure Your Users' Desktops
Michel Gien - Co-Founder & EVP of VirtualLogix Virtualization Power Panel: The Shape of Virtualization To Come	Mike Kemp – CTO & Co-Founder of Liquid Computing Beyond Hypervisors to Complete IT Infrastructure Management
Lynn LeBlanc - CEO & Founder of FastScale How to Adapt Physical, Virtual & Hybrid Infrastructures on the Fly	Jay Litkey – Founder & CEO of Embotics Control VM Sprawl Before It Controls You; Best Practices
Bob Lozano – Chief Strategist & Founder of Appistry Application Virtualization: Achieving Web-Scale	Dave McCrory – CTO of Hyper9 Future Proofing Virtualization Management for Heterogeneous Environments
Dwayne Melancon – VP of Corporate Development for Tripwire Seven Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks	John Suit – CTO of Fortisphere Policy-Based Management: Leading Practices and Pitfalls in a Virtualized Environment
Bob Quinn - Chairman, Founder & CTO of 3Leaf Next Generation Virtualization and Open Architecture	Baldwin Ng - Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Jump Start Your Virtualization Projects with Microsoft Virtualization Solution Accelerators
John Whaley - Founder & CTO, MokaFive An IT Admin's Dream Come True: The Promise of Desktop Virtualization	Dan Avida - General Partner, Opus Capital Startup Opportunities in the Virtualization Services Market
Roland Wartenberg - Director of Virtualization Strategy, SAP SAP Enterprise Virtualization - How Virtualization Drives Your Business	David Snead, Attorney at Law - W. David Snead, P.C. Virtualization - Legal Minefield?
Steve Wilson - Vice President of xVM, Sun Virtualization from Desktop to Datacenter	Ratmir Timashev - President & CEO, Veeam Considerations and Solutions for VMware Backup & Recovery
Ed Walsh - President & CEO, Virtual Iron Server Virtualization and the New Data Center Operating Environment	Hank Wright - VP and GM of Monitoring Solutions, Veeam VMware Virtual Infrastructure Operations