New Citrix XenServer Release Makes Enterprise-Class, Cloud-Proven Virtualization Free

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    New Citrix XenServer Release Makes Enterprise-Class, Cloud-Proven Virtualization Free for Everyone



    BOSTON » 2/23/2009 » Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today unveiled a groundbreaking new version of Citrix® XenServer™ – the company’s enterprise-class, cloud-proven virtualization platform – that will be offered free of charge to any user for unlimited production deployment. While basic hypervisors have been free for years, most have had limited practical use in real world environments. With this new release, XenServer sets an entirely new standard for free virtualization with the addition of powerful new features like centralized multi-node management, multi-server resource sharing and full live motion. Dramatically lowering the entry price of virtualization also helps address today’s challenging economic climate by making enterprise-class virtualization far more accessible to businesses of all sizes, regardless of budget.

    Now in production in more than 5,000 enterprise datacenters worldwide, XenServer is a key component of the Citrix Delivery Center™ product family, a comprehensive datacenter-to-desktop system that helps customers transform static datacenters into dynamic “delivery centers.” XenServer is powered by the same Xen® virtualization engine that runs most every independent cloud today, including the largest single virtualization deployment in the world. With more than 75 percent of corporate servers worldwide still not virtualized**, today’s announcement helps accelerate the adoption of virtualization by bringing the simplicity, scale and economics of the cloud to enterprise datacenter for the first time ever.

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    1. Phoenix
      Phoenix
      Don't forget to power it up with Citrix Essentials for XenServer
      that has some bad ass features for the price (about $1500 USD per server i think)

      Automated Lab Management FTW!

      This is great news for enterprise virtualization, and XenServer 5.0 has come a whole hell of a way since 4.0 (and even 4.1)

      Rock on Citrix, bout time you did something cool! :)

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