The Cloud Panel, including Scott Genereux, CEO of Nirvanix, Sameer Dholakia, GM of Cloud Platforms Group with Citrix and Krishna Subramanian, VP Marketing for VDI-in-a-Box with Citrix sat down inside the Cube with SiliconANGLE's Founder, John Furrier at VMworld2011. Furrier states VMware has used the word end-user computing which changed from desktop virtualization. He asks Subramanian to discuss what is changing and how they compare to VMworld. Specifically, what is the counter-point to VMware? Subramanian responds, "We are cooperators, we run on vSphere, so we work on the same Hypervisor Platforms, which is why we are here at VMworld. But I think we share the vision for end-user computing. It's becoming anytime, anywhere, any device access for anyone. That's where we fit in. We're making desktop virtualization very easy and very affordable for a company of any size company to adopt it." One statistic that Furrier points out, which is considered the biggest reality in Cloud, is that less than 30% of IT CIO's and IT Practicioners are moving to the Cloud with any kind of Tier II or Tier I. He asks the panel to share their thoughts on that statistic. Dholakia shares it will certainly take some time for enterprises to move toward Cloud infrastructure in a public fashion. It will also be a requirement of the Cloud service providers to mature the infrastructure and create specialized offerings with various clouds to appeal to businesses. Citrix is out to provide Clouds that look like the largest Clouds in the world. Furrier asks about the Cloud momentum. Dholakia reports that Citrix sees that interest is broad among multiple classes of customers. Large service providers now recognize that they need to build large Clouds like Amazon. Some of the customers now realize they are a competitive threat to Amazon, therefore, they require a Cloud which is like the biggest Cloud in the world. Scott Genereux discusses his fast-growing start-up and what is being required of his customers, "Customers don't want isolated islands of Cloud." The interest in Cloud is getting a "huge amount of attraction". One of the things Genereux points out is that Cloud offers a hybrid option, "When we put something on a customer's floor in a hybrid-type node, they also have access to our public Cloud. So they can actually buy some private, you know, hybrid-type stuff that's more secure in their location and it also allows them to move that data anywhere around the world." The use of private and public Clouds together give customers the flexibility for business continuity. One of the reasons Citrix acquired Cloud.com was specifically for speed to market with real technology. Dholakia continues, anyone who is looking for a real CloudStack technology that they are ready to get started with today, the product exists and Citrix is open to partner with them. Citrix has dozens of engineers lined up to accelerate the demand for delivery. Genereux reports there are very few customers using openstack in a storage cloud environment but quite a few who are using it in a server type environment. There is a lot of software integration that needs to be done with openstack that isn't there today. Cloud is integrated with Convault and NetBackup, where they have been working for years to refine the product.