GigaSpaces Leverages Citrix OpenCloud to Deliver Flexible and Open PaaS Solution

GigaSpaces Builds on the Success of OpenStack, Accelerating Choice for Enterprise Cloud App Development

NEW YORK and BETHESDA, Maryland, April 11, 2011 - GigaSpaces today announced they are collaborating with Citrix
(www.gigaspaces.com/citrix) to provide an open, scalable platform for
the development of enterprise cloud applications. GigaSpaces will leverage
Citrix OpenCloud
(www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=1681633&ntref=prod_top)
to offer a truly open Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that will
enable developers to use any hypervisor, development language, and runtime of
their choosing - including Java, .Net, PHP, and Spring - to develop and scale
applications for even the largest clouds. As a result, businesses can fully
leverage their existing investments while benefitting from the economics and
elasticity the cloud provides.

Today's news builds on the October 2010 announcement (
www.gigaspaces.com/content/gigaspaces-integrates-citrix-opencloud-platform-ease-creation-elastic-data-center-environmen)
from the two companies highlighting the integration between
Citrix(R) NetScaler(R),
(www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=21679&ntref=prod_top)
Citrix(R) XenServer(R) (www.citrix.com/xenserver) - both
part of the Citrix OpenCloud solution - and GigaSpaces eXtreme Application
Platform (XAP) (www.gigaspaces.com/xap). The integration addressed the
need for seamless infrastructure with application scalability and elasticity.
Building on this effort, GigaSpaces has joined the OpenStack(TM) Community
(www.openstack.org/community/) - of which Citrix is a founding member
- whose goal is to enable any organization to create and offer cloud
computing services running on standard hardware. Members of the OpenStack
project have already made the open cloud a reality on the infrastructure
layer with support for multiple hypervisors and open
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platforms. GigaSpaces wants to extend the
openness and flexibility of OpenStack to the application platform layer,
enabling enterprise customers to choose a cost-effective cloud solution that
will not only allow them to automatically scale to meet the demands of
employees and customers, but also evolve with their business needs and ensure
that they are not locked in to a long-term solution.

Facts and Highlights

The GigaSpaces solution built on OpenStack will provide the
following benefits:

- Openness: An enterprise-grade hybrid cloud stack solution
that includes OpenStack-based IaaS and PaaS and is open to a wide variety of
applications, including those based on Spring, Java, .Net, and other non-Java
platforms.

- Flexibility: Develop applications with a choice of
application stacks (Tomcat, MySQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Ruby, etc.) and handle
provisioning, elasticity, multi-tenancy, continuous high availability, and
monitoring of those services in a consistent way across the stack.

- Integration: By leveraging the Citrix OpenCloud solution
GigaSpaces will provide tighter integration between the platform and the
infrastructure layers to up-level services offered through OpenStack clouds.

- Scalability: Enterprises can use GigaSpaces as the
enterprise PaaS layer specifically geared for big-data analytics, e-commerce,
and financial applications.

- SaaS-Enablement: Ability for SaaS ISVs to SaaS-enable
applications while delivering the same solution off- and on-premises.

Quotes

"It's great to see GigaSpaces and Citrix innovating on top of the
OpenStack platform to provide key capabilities like Platform-as-a-Service,"
said Mark Collier, VP of Marketing and Business Development for Rackspace.
"These community members are advancing the project by allowing developers to
build and scale applications for large-scale OpenStack clouds."

"GigaSpaces is bringing the open cloud to new heights with their
contribution to OpenStack," said Gordon Mangione, VP of Business Development,
Datacenter and Cloud Division, Citrix. "By raising the open cloud to the app
development level, enterprises can leverage their existing knowledge and
development tools while ensuring their cloud strategy will automatically
scale with their business. And because GigaSpaces is using Citrix technology
- which runs the largest clouds in the world and touches 75 percent of all
Internet users daily - customers can be assured their clouds will scale on a
world-class level."

"The lack of open standards for cloud platforms and infrastructure poses
a huge risk to the industry. The situation today is that vendors offer
closed, proprietary integration solutions that lock companies into long-term,
expensive associations," says Adi Paz, EVP Marketing and Business Development
at GigaSpaces. "OpenStack provides a perfect framework for bringing openness
to the cloud, and increasing freedom of choice, through member collaboration
at different layers of the stack. That is why we are so pleased to be working
in concert with companies such as Citrix and Rackspace to provide openness at
the application platform layer, and we look forward to welcoming additional
players to this alliance."

Availability

GigaSpaces intends to announce its first code contribution at the
OpenStack Design Summit (
www.openstack.org/blog/2011/03/openstack-conference-design-summit-2011-sponsored-by-citrix/)
on April 26, 2011, in Santa Clara, California. It will
make its integration with OpenStack available to the entire Java community
through the open source JClouds project. GigaSpaces XAP is currently
available through the GigaSpaces channel network and at
www.gigaspaces.com. Early Access Registration (
www.gigaspaces.com/registration_earlyaccess) is also available for the
new GigaSpaces Cloud-Enablement Platform. Citrix OpenCloud is available
through Citrix partners worldwide. More information on the integration can be
found in the GigaSpaces blog (blog.gigaspaces.com/).

About GigaSpaces

GigaSpaces Technologies is the pioneer of a new generation of virtualized
application platforms and a leading provider of end-to-end scaling solutions
for distributed, mission-critical application environments, and cloud
enabling technologies. GigaSpaces is the only platform in the market that
offers a truly silo-free architecture, along with operational agility and
openness, delivering enhanced efficiency, extreme performance, and always-on
availability. Our offering includes solutions for enterprise application
scaling and enterprise PaaS and SaaS enablement that are designed from the
ground up to run on any cloud environment - private, public, or hybrid - and
offers a pain-free, evolutionary path to meet tomorrow's IT challenges.

Hundreds of organizations worldwide have been leveraging GigaSpaces
technology, among which are global Fortune 500 companies, including top
financial service enterprises, e-commerce companies, online gaming providers,
and telecom carriers.

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