Citrix Teams with HP to Accelerate Server Virtualization Adoption By VSM News Staff published: Tuesday, October 23 2007
Citrix XenServer Virtualization Products to be Certified, Supported and Sold by HP
LAS VEGAS — Oct. 23, 2007 — Today at Citrix iForum™, the world’s largest application delivery conference, Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS) announced an agreement with HP to qualify and sell Citrix XenServer™ Enterprise Edition (formerly XenSource XenEnterprise) on industry-standard HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers.
Introduced in August 2007, Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition 4 includes XenMotion™ for live migration of running virtual machines; XenCenter™, a scalable, resilient virtual infrastructure management framework integrated into every host; an open, standards-based XenAPI that enables ISVs and OEMs to develop add-on solutions for XenServer Enterprise Edition; and a powerful 64-bit hypervisor that supports both 32- and 64-bit enterprise workloads.
“HP is the largest x86 server vendor in the world, and its validation of Citrix XenServer provides ease of installation and access to virtualization for customers worldwide,” said Frank Artale, vice president of business development at Citrix Systems. “We look forward to working more closely with HP to accelerate the adoption of virtualization technology.”
HP ProLiant servers provide optimum operational efficiency and virtualization performance for consolidation and energy efficiency. HP and Citrix’s expanded relationship provides customers the ability to purchase an entire virtualization solution, from server to software, from HP with the added benefit of interoperability and HP support.
“Virtualization has become a necessity for our customers to achieve desired business outcomes,” said Scott Farrand, vice president of Industry Standard Server Software at HP. “This agreement with Citrix will provide customers an easy-to-use and cost-effective virtualization solution for their existing HP investments.”
Pricing and Availability
Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition 4 is available now from HP. The list price for Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition starts at $1,599 for an annual subscription license per dual socket server, and $2,499 perpetual license per dual socket server. For more information, click here.
About Citrix XenServer Virtualization Products
Citrix XenServer is part of the industry's broadest portfolio of end-to-end virtualization solutions and a key component of the Citrix application delivery infrastructure. For customers seeking to reduce the number of under-utilized servers in their IT infrastructure, the XenServer product line helps to dramatically reduce server hardware and operating costs through savings on power, space, cooling, and system maintenance. Offering high performance virtualization within an easy to use virtualization platform, XenServer supports both Windows and Linux servers. XenServer is based on the Xen® hypervisor, and offers easy to use Windows and Linux virtualization solutions with built-in virtual machine lifecycle management, at breakthrough price and performance. XenServer products are being adopted worldwide in enterprises to increase server utilization, reduce total cost of ownership and create more dynamic datacenters that make it easier for IT to respond quickly to business change.
About iForum 07 - The App Delivery Expo
Now in its tenth year, the Citrix App Delivery Expo is the industry’s largest conference focused entirely on application delivery infrastructure, bringing together thousands of business leaders, IT managers and technology leaders from around the world. Application delivery infrastructure best practices will be highlighted in more than 60 sessions, including keynotes and general sessions from analysts at Gartner, Forrester, IDC and Yankee Group, as well as industry leaders like Accenture, Dell, Microsoft, HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle and SAP. The conference also features 15 enterprise customer presentations, vendor exhibits, technology labs, hands-on technical workshops, panel discussions, and product demonstrations. The event will present thought leaders and cutting-edge technology behind some of the hottest trends in the market, including virtualization, desktop delivery and application networking. Held at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, NV, from October 22-25, 2007, the Citrix App Delivery Expo will also feature keynotes by Citrix executives including Mark Templeton, president and CEO. More information is available at www.citrixiforum.com.
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 99% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2006 was $1.1 billion.
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