Last week Citrix released its much awaited orchestration framework: Workflow Studio.
The product has been widely hyped for over a year now.
Workflow Studio is key piece in the Citrix virtual infrastructure vision as it delivers the mandatory automation layer that makes smart any cloud computing or dynamic data center environment.
The onyl real competition to this is from VMware through the soon to be released vCenter Orchestrator through the acquistion of Dunes,
At its first version the product, built on Microsoft PowerShell, is able to automate a number of tasks in XenServer/XenCenter, XenDesktop, XenApp and NetScaler, through an intuitive GUI.
Additionally, any Citrix partner can further extend the platform providing its own automation script (as Workflow Templates and Tasks Libraries).
The product is available for any Citrix customer that has a Subscription Advantage.