Citrix Systems Buys Cloud.com

Citrix Systems has acquired of Cloud.com, a venture-backed maker of software infrastructure platforms for cloud providers. Terms of the deal were not released. Cloud.com provides a cloud computing infrastructure similar to Amazon's EC2 web service. By scooping up the company, Citrix will offer its users the ability to run cloud-computing software more easily, and to move more tasks to the data center. Cloud.com previously raised more than $11 million in venture capital from investors Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners.

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