Case Study: IDC Frontier achieves self-service IaaS and expanded global cloud connectivity with Citrix CloudPlatform

IDC Frontier delivers a self-service IaaS cloud and connectivity to global cloud services with CloudPlatform

IDC Frontier is a Japanese datacenter operator that expanded from high‑quality colocation and managed hosting into public IaaS to meet growing customer demand. Faced with rising usage of its managed offering, the company needed a self‑service, pay‑per‑use cloud that met global standards (open source, multi‑hypervisor), offered flexible network/payment/location options, and upheld its 99.99% SLA without vendor lock‑in.

IDC Frontier selected Citrix CloudPlatform with CloudPortal and NetScaler, launching the self‑service product in about six months (instant online signup and virtual servers in minutes) and integrating RightScale for multi‑cloud management. The result was higher customer satisfaction, expanded domestic and international service coverage, easy links to other cloud providers, and a platform ready for additional services like storage and databases.

IDC Frontier

Makoto Oya

Manager Service Development, Business Promotion Division,IDC Frontier