Citrix took another step onto cloud, with their acquision of cloud.com. It seemed a natural fit with their current current base.  The terms of acquisition were not disclosed. Could.com has organized about 60 large-scaled cloud web hosting a lot of which are built on XenServer around the U.S.A., Asia and Indonesia, so it seems a natural fit. [...]

Kaviza offers a product they call “VDI-in-a-box,” which simplifies VDI deployments for small to medium sized environments by including all the important bits in a single virtual appliance. Currently, Citrix only has XenDesktop Express edition, which is pretty limited as far as functionality goes. The acquisition is another step for Citrix to be bigger player [...]