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Citrix ships free XenServer to fend off Vmware, Hyper-V and KVM

In a move designed to accelerate uptake of its open source virtualization platform, Citrix announced today worldwide availability of its free enterprise ready open source XenServer. The Ft Lauderdale company announced it February it would make XenServer software with hypervisor as well as features and functionality and...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, XenServer, KVM, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Parallels' Serguei Beloussov speaks out on free XenServer

Parallels' Serguei Beloussov speaks out on free XenServerSay What, Serguei?Standard Serguei - "I'm not able to make any interesting announcements about Parallels, so I'll try to make myself relevant in enterprise virtualization by piggy backing on others' news and trying to sound very dramatic."

Tags: Serguei Beloussov, XenServer

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

Parallels' Serguei Beloussov speaks out on free XenServer

Parallels' CEO, Serguei Beloussov, has published his opinion regarding Citrix's recent announcement that they were making a free edition of XenServer available see Citrix launches a free version of XenServer and Citrix Essentials for more information. Let's hear what he has to say and review his comments. Here's what...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, XenServer, Parallels, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-02-24

Citrix launches a free version of XenServer and Citrix Essentials

Citrix launches a free version of XenServer and Citrix Essentialsfree as in freedom?Probably being a bit of a zealot, but is XenServer open source or just no cost? They decided already to make money in a different way than selling software licenses. What hook is in the xenserver...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., XenServer, Citrix Essentials

Discussion threads 2009-02-23

Citrix launches a free version of XenServer and Citrix Essentials

Citrix is trying to cover the entire water front. Citrix is one of the very few suppliers that either has products or partnerships to supply products at every level of the model Citrix is trying to cover all platforms. Citrix's technology and technology from its partners supports...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., XenServer, Citrix Essentials, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-02-23

Citrix to offer free XenServer; Takes shot at VMware

Citrix to offer free XenServer; Takes shot at VMwaremore choicesIt's good now we have more FREE choices for server virtualization from VMWARE, CITRIX etcLet's wish there are more choices on the desktop virtualization front too. Currently the 2 big ones are from MS and Citrix onlyI did manage to find...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., desktop virtualization, VMware Inc., XenServer, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

Citrix to offer free XenServer; Takes shot at VMware

Citrix on Feb. 23 will detail plans to offer free licenses to its XenServer virtualization application and team with Microsoft to swap support. Citrix and Microsoft will also extend their 20-year partnership into the virtualization market.  In a nutshell, Citrix will work with Microsoft to provide system...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., XenServer, Open Source Virtualization Player, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-18

Next XenServer -- code named Orlando -- now in alpha testing

Next XenServer -- code named Orlando -- now in alpha testingBeta, Beta, Beta...The page says beta. The blog says beta.It's not alpha. It's beta.

Tags: alpha, beta, XenServer

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

Hobson's EMT saves time and money with Virtual Iron

Hobson's EMT saves time and money with Virtual IronXenServer shames Virtual IronI find it interesting that "Patrick" recommends doing a Bake-Off of all solutions and his best answer for not choosing XenServer from Citrix is that "it seems to be geared toward a single server environment". now, that doesnt make...

Tags: Virtual Iron, XenServer, Citrix Systems Inc., Hobson

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

Citrix strays far from XenSource's original open source mission

Citrix strays far from XenSource's original open source missionThankfully, XenSource is NOT Xen[url=http://www.xen.org/about/]FYI[/url]Interestingly Zen is not XenIn Novemenber of 2006 the Microsoft Novell marriage forced many of us to re-evaluate where we were going in IT. Zen is one of the Novell products. Another is SUSE Linux which is a...

Tags: Zen, Xen Project, Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, XenSource Inc., XenServer, open source

Discussion threads 2008-02-07

Additional Resources

When is a VMware cloud a vCloud? Let the API wars begin

Attention enterprises â€"Pop Quiz: If your favorite hosting provider launches a cloud service that supports VMware vSphere and is part of the VMware vCloud initative, are they providing you with the rich vCloud functionality VMware is touting at VMworld this week? The answer is no, because vCloud...

Tags: API, Amazon.com Inc., VMware Inc., Virtualization, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Geek Sheet: Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2

cool.......:)ntAnd why Jason would anyone in their right mind want to do this?ntFor the same reasons...You'd do it in VMWare. The difference is that this solution is free. You want live migration or anything else VMWare does you'll have to pay for it. Hyper-V is an excellent hypervisor.Would you run...

Tags: Virtualization, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Server, Xen, hypervisor, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Linux, open source, Microsoft Windows Server 2008

Discussion threads 2009-08-09

Pivot3 - a different take on unified computing

Pivot3's Lee Caswell and I spoke about a different take on unified computing architectures and storage centric computing. Lee and I crossed paths while he was with Sun Microsystems. Furthermore, Pivot3's take includes memory virtualization/distributed caching elements as well. Here's how Pivot3 describes itself ...

Tags: Network, Environment, Pivot3, Storage, Servers, Networking, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Starwind Enterprise Server 4.2 (Windows)

StarWind Enterprise Server is an advanced, reliable and powerful iSCSI SAN software that converts any standard 64-bit or 32-bit Windows Server into a scalable SAN that works over the existing Ethernet network. StarWind Enterprise Server includes all enterprise-class features not offered in StarWind Server: Mirroring & Replication: synchronous & asynchronous...

Tags: Mirroring, Server Cluster, Starwind Software, StarWind Enterprise Server, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-22

Citrix launches Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V

The folks at Citrix are at it again. They are trying to execute a preemptive strike so that their technology will come to be pervasive. It is clear that Citrix is taking a page out of the open source strategy book. This "give something of value away...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Express Edition, Storage, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-16

Citrix and Fujitsu cuddle closer together

Citrix and Fujitsu recently announced that they were taking their long-standing relationship to another level. Fujitisu has signed an OEM agreement with Citrix and will incorporate Citrix technology at a deeper level than ever before. The key questions are where these two companies think that they're going to get more...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Customer, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitisu, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Data Centers, Recruitment & Selection, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Automating Citrix XenApp on XenServer Deployments on HP ProLiant Servers

Citrix and HP have jointly developed and tested an automated deployment solution that is as powerful as it is cost-effective. This allows one to use RDP in conjunction with Citrix-developed PowerShell cmdlets to deploy XenServer VMs to a XenApp server farm hosting published applications. Citrix and HP jointly developed this...

Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Citrix Systems Inc., HP Compaq ProLiant, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2009-07-01

Best Practices for Deploying Citrix XenApp on XenServer on HP ProLiant Servers

Since the first hypervisor came on the market, businesses have been challenged to consolidate underutilized servers on to a single physical machine. While early results were disappointing, resulting in large performance penalties due to virtualization overhead, there have been significant advances in technology. Today's AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors...

Tags: Hypervisor, HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Citrix Systems Inc., Best Practice, HP Compaq ProLiant, Virtualization, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

White papers 2009-07-01

Best Practices for Implementing Citrix XenServer, HP Edition v5.5 on HP ProLiant Servers

More and more, businesses are looking to virtualize for a multitude of reasons. It may be to consolidate old hardware running old applications and operating systems on to newer more efficient hardware. The process of simultaneously upgrading the application, operating system, and hardware can be quite daunting. Migrating the existing...

Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Citrix Systems Inc., Best Practice, HP Compaq ProLiant, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2009-07-01

Sun VirtualBox 3.0

Sun Microsystems released VirtualBox 3.0 today. One goal of this release is supporting workloads, such as database management systems, some collaborative applications and many web-based applications that rely on multiple processes running simultaneously. Another is offering support for high performance graphics for desktop applications. Here's...

Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Hypervisor, Sun Microsystems Inc., VirtualBox 3.0, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-30